Al Shaya

My teaching practice special reflection

 My teaching practice session with my colleagues, in the ocean team, was a first successful trial and I appreciated its valuable outcomes. In fact, teaching for the first time as in a team is not so easy for all of us, and we actually faced some difficulties at the beginning but we could overcome them with the help of David and Irmeli. They both contributed some important instructions and advice and they facilitated our job by arranging for some materials and offering some teaching aids such as flash card and coping papers that we actually needed.

First step of our teaching practice started with the counselling session by David. We discussed with him what our lesson would be about, what skills that we might cover, teaching activities that could help for performing the lesson in a good way. Then, the members of the them gathered and selected the lesson topic which was ''The Most dangerous animal in the world'' about 'mosquito'. The 4 members of the ocean team shared the roles of the teaching practice lesson and each one knew his role. We started our lesson with exploring the lesson goals and some important instructins  by our colleague Mr. Alturki, then Mr. Abdulrahman presented a video about the 10 most dangerous animals in the world having participants do some tasks. Then, I presented the reading part which was a passage about the most dangerous animal. Before reading the passage silently, I discussed with the participants the types of reading and some pre-reading techniques. Then, I tried to have them practice the pre-reading technique but there had been an organizing mistake happened during disrupting papers to participants. Unfortunately, I think one of our teaching goals had not been matched. In other words, it is supposed that participants completely practice those important reading techniques in the reading context but that partially happened. After that, Mr. Saeed performed the last teaching step which was the assessment and wrapping up the lesson. Honestly, I feel that the lesson in general was performed  well especially the parts with my colleagues and I also think that there had been many different skills covered such as listening, speaking, reading and writing and they are the most important skills, especially in teaching a language. To be more honestly, I think I should pay attention to my above mentioned mistake and try to avoid its occurring again in my classes. I think the best way for preventing its occurrence, in the future, is by implementing the easiest activity or task.  That means to give each group of students a sheet of paper containing all the paragraph of the passage and discussing them all with students.

During the teaching practice I learnt plenty of significant things such as being patient when dealing with colleagues who will share me teaching, to prepare my lesson well, I learnt many new teaching activities and techniques, adjusting time.

In addition, I think the other groups in the teaching practice were very good and they all did well. I observed a lot of different teaching methods which could contribute to my teaching career and experience. They used many different teaching aids in their teaching times, they motivated participants to have them participate, and they used cooperative teaching methods in their teaching. I think all the groups matched most of their teaching goals in their teaching sessions. I can say that observing peers gives a person a very good opportunity to learn some different teaching techniques and helps him to build his critical thoughts.