My Simulated Teaching

Simulated teaching is one the task given. It is also my favourite task in this course.

In the set induction stage, I displayed the picture of Yang Dipertuan Agong to the students and students were asked to describe Yang Dipertuan Agong. I connected the picture to the characteristic of Oedipus in “Oedipus The King”. In the pre-reading stage, I distributed an extract from the play to the students and they were asked to circle the characters in the extract and highlight the words or phrases that describe the characters in the extract. Then, I selected some students to list out their answer on the white board. In the while-reading stage, the students were asked to identify whether the words or phrases that they have highlighted in the extract are positively connotated or negatively connotated. In the post-reading stage, I asked the students to write a short essay about the change of Oedipus’s characteristic from Scene I to Éxodos of the play as homework.

In my opinion, there are similarities and differences between simulated teaching and real teaching. In term of similarity, teachers in school would get students’ attention by introducing a story indirectly. Moreover, I used the same teaching aids as teachers in school would use I teaching, such as white board, power point presentation and worksheets. Then, what the differences are? The time that we used in simulated teaching is shorter than real teaching and the students. In my simulated teaching, my course-mates had played the role of students. They are very cooperative. So, I cannot imagine for the real teaching.

This simulated teaching is a good experience for me as to practice before enter the real classroom. I had found out my strengths and weaknesses through this activity.