End of Course

I breathe a sigh of relief at this moment, now that the semester-long course has ended. All students were able to upload the video of their micro-teaching lesson into their blogs as can be seen if you just click on one of the links in the list on the left. This exercise proved to be extremely useful as it provided other students who were absent an opportunity to view the lesson taught by their classmates and comment. It also encouraged repeated viewing and deeper reflection.

...An Update on Micro Teaching

Students are currently doing their Micro Teaching exercise based on a Unit of work that they prepared as part of a group assignment. Initially students were asked to prepare a 30 minute lesson but it was necessary that some modifications be made to allow us sufficient time to complete the course. Four students have taught and the remaining three students are expected to teach a 15 minute lesson.
One student withdrew and the other student who as asked to audit the course has now rejoined her classmates.

All lessons are being videotaped and students are expected to upload their videos into their blogs to encourage deeper reflection. This approach provides me as the course lecturer with another opportunity to review the lesson and to capture areas that i may have missed during the execution of the lesson. In some cases I had to record the lesson so it was not possible for me to evaluate using the prescribed teaching practice assessment tool.