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EDEN405 Peer Evaluation 2

The micro teaching that I have decided to evaluate was done by my peer on the topic of

acting out a scene. She planned her lesson around the context of the famous animation movie

“The Cars” which I believe was a very unique and fun topic. I believe her choice of context

would be extremely effective in an actual young learners classroom.

For her warm-up, Begüm started introducing the topic and her context. She asked her

students “What is mocking?” to introduce the concept of mock trials. She utilized students’

knowledge of simple concepts to introduce more complex concepts which I believe was a

brilliant approach. Then, for her first activity, Begüm played a clip from “The Cars”

animation movie as a piece of evidence in the imaginary court. Begüm’s PowerPoint

presentation had a courtroom theme which contributed to the feeling of an actual trial. Then,

Begüm opened a list of characters from the movie which she divided into different groups

such as “Judge, Jury,Defendant,Prosecutor” Asking students to pick out a character

themselves is an effective way to make them engage with your lesson.

After distributing the characters and the duties of these characters, Begüm divided her

students into breakout rooms where groups had to come with arguments that they were going

to present at the court. Begüm also said that groups should be able to provide some defenses

against the other side’s accusations. This activity allowed her students to utilize critical

thinking in an extremely communicative manner and I found this part to be very enjoyable.
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When the time for breakout rooms ended, Begüm invited everyone back to the main session

and the court began. Begüm had written down the steps that the Court would follow during

the trial and she went back to that page. I believe providing the students with guidance during

this part of her lesson plan was very much needed otherwise it would just be a glorified

discussion. Even though Begüm had written the progress step-by-step, I believe the trial did

not exactly play out as she had intended. Some students did not notice it was their turn to

present arguments or some students took their turns. However, Begüm did not interrupt

students when they were speaking but rather corrected them after they finished to get the trial

back to its original track.

The trial had to end when Begüm’s time ran out and the judge dismissed the court for another

trial at a later date, which was a fun detail. I really liked Begüm’s lesson overall. I especially

loved the imaginary courtroom context that revolved around “The Cars” movie. While I think

the movie context would be loved by the students in an actual classroom, I am not sure if the

students would enjoy the courtroom activity because I believe it had too many layers so they

might have difficulties if their proficiency is low.