Muetoosay Arlaiphukhao (201700177)

Video – Self Reflection

I was thinking about for a few days before I teach. I also worry and nervous about how I
am going to teach. I have so many questions pop up in my minds. The questions such as how am
I going to handle the class? If the students not listen to me, how I am going to do? How am I
going to explain to the students if the lesson is too difficult to me? What about the students don’t
understand my English what I am talking? I believe that practice will make things easily and
practice makes perfect.
This is the first video that I have recorded during teaching. I just set up my phone’s
camera on the shelf at the back. The quality of the camera is not really good which couldn’t
capture clear video. By the way, it still can see the movement and can also hear the voice.
Actually, I planned to record two videos. One video will be my first class of teaching and
another one will be before the end of the semester. And I planned to submit the second video
because I thought that it would be better than the first video. Due to the pandemic, I cannot
record my second video which students are not able to attend face to face class. By the grace of
God, I still have the first video that I have recorded. So that I am able to submit this video and
reflect on what I have seen myself in the video.
When I was watching myself in the video, I found that I have confidence to stand in front
for the students. I remember when I did microteaching in the classroom, I always nervous and all
my limbs and feet cooling down or getting cold. When I am really teaching in real classroom, I
don’t feel nervous anymore. I can see myself with some level of confidence in this video. The
students also listen to me and show their positive response in the class. What I like about myself
in this video is the way I teach and the way I interact with the students. I can see that students
enjoy to learn and do their classwork. The students are free to ask questions if they don’t
understand some part of the lesson. And I also move around the class to reach to the students
who need help. I can see that I have try my best and do good job for the teaching.
What I don’t like about myself in this video is my gesture when I am explaining the
lesson. I can see that the movement of part of my body is awkward especially my hands. I repeat
the same gesture which make me annoy when I look at the video. The other thing I don’t like in
the video is I cannot control the whole class. When I am explaining the lesson in front of the
class, I fail to focus on the students at the back. I can see the students are noisy at the back and
they also speaking Thai which I could not see in the class. And I was making grammatically
errors and mispronunciation.
What I need to improve is I have to be aware of repeating gesture and my pronunciation
during lecturing. What I can do for my gesture is I should do the correct gesture which related to
what I am talking about. I should practice more to be able to reduce my repeating gesture. For
the pronunciation, I need to check audio dictionary and pronounce alone the audio. And I better
to take note for the word that I usually mispronounce. One more thing is, I should have firm
classroom rule to control the whole class. If the classroom rule is firm, even the students at the
back will behave well and not speak Thai in the class. Why I include Speaking Thai because they
are not allowed to speak Thai in the classroom.