Reflection for Mini-lecture

Reflection for Mini-lecture

Han Zheng
11/29/2016
UCR Extension

In todays mini lecture, my team only presented three parts of the whole lesson---the
presentation, the practice and the production. We skipped the warm-up and the wrapup part. In the warm-up part, we plan to welcome the whole class first and then to ask

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them questions like How many of you drink coffee today?. In order to introduces
the topic and to activate their background knowledge. Then we will show Ss a video
about a man who is ordering drinks in the coffee shop. After they listening to this
conversation, we will give them some questions to discuss in pairs. (The questions
are:Where is this conversation taken place? And What were mentioned in this
conversation?) Finally T will ask two Ss to give their answers to the whole class and
play the video one more time for them to check their answers. And if I got another
chance to do the lesson again, I would changed the modeling part in practice into an
activity. Because in todays lesson we model so many times, I think students may feel
bored. The activity is a simple one. The first student I point at would start to say the
first sentence in the board, which is hello, how can I help you. Then I point at
another student randomly, and the students would need to read the second sentence on
board. The I point to the third student. I would choose 10 students to get involved in
this game. By doing this activity, students would need to focus on the sentence that is
just been said. This is a good way to help them to be familiar with the new phrase and
also grasp their attention.
From todays lesson deliver, I learn that as a teacher, I should give clear instructions
about activities he/she conducts. In some of the lessons today I didnt understand the
instructions that I were given. Therefore,I didnt know what the teachers wanted me to
do. If this was a real situation and students cant understand the activity, they would
not cooperate with teachers. Thus, we as teachers had better make our instructions
clear and concise. And for myself , I should be more confidence about myself when I
was in front of the whole class. Because in todays mini-lecture, I could feel my hands
were shaking while I was doing the presentation. I think it is because I was afraid of
making mistakes. Now as a student, I should practice more before I come up to the

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board so that I will feel more confident about myself. And only I am confidence about
myself, the students will believe what I say and do what I ask them to do in class.