1. Microteaching: Teach a concept which relates to the media (TV, internet, film, magazines, newspaper, etc.), or to technology in your mentor teacher's classroom. You may use groups for this microteaching. Or teach a lesson in which you use media to further an objective.
2. Turn in a lesson plan to your mentor teacher and to your instructor in 5922. Fill out the individual self-evaluation below.
3. Teacher evaluation- Have your teacher evaluate your lesson, focussing on strengths and things to work on.
Things to think about:
1. What are my significant assumptions about the role of this particular media in the lives of my students?
2. Room arrangement.
3. Do you know how the equipment works?
4. Clear opening set. This is crucial for audio-visual material or students are unsure of what to focus on.
5. How will you follow up (especially if you use a film or
video)?
A crucial time is the period immediately after a film when it
may have to be rewound. Many a classroom disintegrates at this
point. Wise planners plan an activity, discussion, written question,
etc., (and ask a student to rewind the film).
Final Evaluation of MT #6
1. Briefly describe the technology or media that you used in this microteaching and then tell the story (a brief version) of your lesson. Describe the knowledge and beliefs about teaching that influenced your plan, the events, and your even your reflection on the event. Having re-viewed the rationale for your lesson plan, how did the technology or media material further your rationale for teaching the lesson?
2. Openings and conclusions of lessons help orient the learner and then hammer home the lesson. How did you do in opening orientation and closing summaries?
3. Was the lesson or the technology in the lesson equally accessible to all?
4. Sometimes technology is a means to learning technology as opposed to a means to learning the language arts. Was your lesson more about technology or more about learning reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking or literature? If your lesson was about media, were there aspects that were inaccessible to some students based on their prior experience?
Summative Evaluation of all the Microteachings:
1. From your observations of and discussion with the mentor teacher, what would you guess to be the classroom teacher's beliefs? Discuss. How would your beliefs as a teacher change the way this classroom would go about learning if you were the only teacher in the class?
2. Tell me the story of your experience with teaching in a "real" school. Looking back on the term what happened? How did you experience it? Construct a narrative about how your teaching experience grew, faltered, succeeded, faltered, bloomed, etc. through the term.
4. Reread what you just wrote. Reflect on what happened, on: your collective reactions or feelings about specific events, reasons for what happened, your evaluation of what happened, disparities between your plans or hopes and what happened, instances in which a different decision would have changed the course of what you were doing and why.
5. Think over what you need to work on during your student teaching. Talk about what strengths you have and how you might use those to work on what you still need to work on.
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