I should say that I MUST be able to adopt and adapt the skills that I have learned for my future lessons so that I will not have any trouble teaching my students. I am in the learning process and I am learning lots of things or methods from Dr. Edwin. From the previous semester I have learned quite a number of things from the Teaching the Language of Short Story.
The first skill that I have learned this semester is that a play ought to read more then once especially Oedipus the King and King Lear to get better understanding. As I read the play, I stop to read the footnotes given in Oedipus the King and meanings given for certain words on the left side of each page for the book King Lear. During my second reading, I try to read without looking at the footnotes and the meanings. I do this so that I will be able to know whether I understand the play or not. I also realise that I understand better if I read the play aloud.
As I read the plays, I pay close attention to some of the aspects of the play, such as dramatic irony, elements of fate (moira), consequences of certain behaviours, the tragic flaw of the characters, the various themes, the nature of tragedy, the relationships between the main characters and the conflicts that emerge. By doing this, the play sticks in my head and I do not have the difficulty to find for the evidence from the book if given any questions to answer.
All that I have learned and learning I will make use of it during my days of teaching the students within two years. How would I adapt all the skills that I have learned? Writing down this question, a saying comes to my mind, ‘practice makes perfect.’ Yes! I need to practice and the best time I could do this is during simulated teaching in any of the subjects. I have the confidence that I will be able to provide interesting activities for my students with all the activities done in the classroom by my fellow course mates with the guidance of Dr. Edwin and Miss Kasthoori.
I am on the way of being a teacher. I feel excited but also nervous and scared. I hope I will get through it! I wish a very good luck to all of my course mates and myself!
The first skill that I have learned this semester is that a play ought to read more then once especially Oedipus the King and King Lear to get better understanding. As I read the play, I stop to read the footnotes given in Oedipus the King and meanings given for certain words on the left side of each page for the book King Lear. During my second reading, I try to read without looking at the footnotes and the meanings. I do this so that I will be able to know whether I understand the play or not. I also realise that I understand better if I read the play aloud.
As I read the plays, I pay close attention to some of the aspects of the play, such as dramatic irony, elements of fate (moira), consequences of certain behaviours, the tragic flaw of the characters, the various themes, the nature of tragedy, the relationships between the main characters and the conflicts that emerge. By doing this, the play sticks in my head and I do not have the difficulty to find for the evidence from the book if given any questions to answer.
All that I have learned and learning I will make use of it during my days of teaching the students within two years. How would I adapt all the skills that I have learned? Writing down this question, a saying comes to my mind, ‘practice makes perfect.’ Yes! I need to practice and the best time I could do this is during simulated teaching in any of the subjects. I have the confidence that I will be able to provide interesting activities for my students with all the activities done in the classroom by my fellow course mates with the guidance of Dr. Edwin and Miss Kasthoori.
I am on the way of being a teacher. I feel excited but also nervous and scared. I hope I will get through it! I wish a very good luck to all of my course mates and myself!
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ReplyDeletePractice make perfect is really a true wording for whatever attempt we are involve in and as students we are also not exempted from it. I am quite confidents you really using the skills we have learnt during lesson because you have stated clearly how you using this skills and I am sure this skills should be enforce to our students to make they also excellent in their studies. Good luck
I agree with you that pratice makes perfect. No one can do it right at the first time, there are bound to be some mistakes here and there. So, practising through simulated teaching is a good way to start.
ReplyDeleteBesides, I too agree that a play needs to be read more than once in order to get the meaning or the context of teh play. for instance, King Lear is a difficult play and its impossible for us to understand it in by reading it once. So, the skill of reading the play more than once is important for us to decipher the meaning of the play.
I could not agree more with Naomi's view on practice makes perfect. I personally learnt many new things in Dr.Edwin's class. Although at first before taking this subject, I thought that drama will be very easy to read and understand but eventually it is a lot more harder than I thought, and then I learnt that play's are ought to be read more than once to get better insights. I also learnt to pay close attention to certain elements while I read the play as Dr.Edwin always focuses on elements such as dramatic irony, tragedy, elements of fate, tragic flaw of the characters, the themes, and even the conflicts that emerge. Besides that, our simulated teaching really had a good impact on us. We are exposed to this early stage of teaching as a practice for us to teach in few years to come. I would really say practice makes us perfect and to be a perfect teacher in future we need tonnes of practice.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that practice makes perfect! Many things in our life take a lot of practice to get us to the path of success. Without practice, there will be no way for us to succeed in life. This applies to teaching as well. In order to be an excellent teacher, all we need is to start practising from now. That is why micro-teaching and simulated teaching is introduced as one of the requirements that need to be fulfilled in most of our teaching courses. While we are still in the university, we must grab every single opportunity to learn how to teach and also know what appropriate methods or approaches to use in our lessons. Learning from our friends' mistakes and strengths do help us a lot in our teaching. We must not repeat our friends' mistakes and at the same time, we need to look at their strengths and apply them in our teaching if possible. Learning is a life long process and university is the best place for us to learn and at the same time, to make mistakes which I know they can be silly sometimes. Anyway, my point here is that in order to teach, all of us need to learn the knowledge of what we are to teach and next to learn how to teach them. This will help us to be an excellent teacher in future.
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