EEEK! I took part of a lesson today. My mentor told me a couple hours before that he was going to be 5 mins late and could I start the Year 7 lesson on Tropical Cyclones for him. What an opportunity. I was SO SO nervous. I don't really know why. I have done so many presentations to crowds in my life, but this was just not the same. I had been in two other classes which had just done that topic so I was confident that I knew the content and had a semi basic idea of how I wanted the lesson to go.
I made sure I referred to my lesson objective (which I had up on the board), I gave them some context about what we were doing and what they should have understood by the end of the lesson. I had had a lesson free before hand and break to prepare handouts and that type of thing.
Things that I learnt:
(1) I rush. I seem to not be aware of time. I actually needed to check myself, and tell myself to calm down and give them a chance to process what was being said, give them a chance to actually take down the objective, give them a chance to read the handout, give them a chance to think. I just need to chill out man!
(3) My voice is way too loud. When my mentor came in and took over, he was cool, calm and collected, not loud. I think my loudness could give the perception of being not in control. Well I think kids pick up on that? I don't know.
(2) I have no idea if they learnt anything? When my mentor came in, I did say "Lets show Mr..... what we have learnt so far" - they repeated it all back to me like parrots! How on earth do I know if any of them have converted it?
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