Simulated teachings for the set induction-there are still many things to be improved!

As the simulated teaching started I pitied so much on the few groups that have to redo their work regards to their inappropriacy of the content and the task given. I was quite anxious if the thing happens to my pair and me. As the lecturer comments on other group, I do reflect the comments and suggestions on my content and material for the teaching. Luckily, it fits what the lecturer wants; just a few minor amendments had been done before my turn to teach. The first session was quite pressurized as there to many major corrections need to be done and there are quite numbers of group the need to redo their works. In terms of the instructions, the ‘teachers’ did not give the clear instruction of what they students need to do. For instance, they ask the students to listen to a song and after finish playing the song; they ask questions regards to the song without any matter to focus on. They ask vague questions such as “What is the mood in the song?” without any specific focus on to the lyrics. There are some of them used video clipping and provides the lyrics, they ask the students to watch the video clip but they do not make any reference to the lyric to actually relates the lyric to their teaching. Some of the teachers do goes against “the nature of set induction” where the teachers speak more while the students speaks less. However, there are still some interesting activities done to triggers the students’ interest as being done by Nazmier. He used role-playing to portray two different characters successfully. For my group, we manage to get B+ as our first activities, using hi-tech (gazettes of important scenes in The Incredibles), but our second activity moved from hi-tech way to a very traditional way, using the white board instead of using powerpoint. Thus, I would say that this simulated teaching have actually gives a lot of new reminders to be hold on while conducting the stage of set induction in class.