Incoming Students As The Artefact From My Micro-Teaching Experience

For the purpose of this essay I have chosen the lesson plan from my final teach to the incoming students as the artefact from my micro-teaching experience during this module. In this essay I will describe the relationship between the lesson plan and setting clear, challenging and achievable expectations for pupils and also its relationship with engaging with pupils in order to develop effective, creative and imaginative strategies that promote individual and shared learning.

Throughout my micro-teaching experience, it became obvious to me that the lesson plan is a clear and effective way of planning your lesson effectively in order to ensure for a high standard teach.

Writing a lesson plan enables the teacher to set clear, challenging and achievable

Looking back at my experience of micro-teaching I feel that this was perhaps the area where I improved and excelled at based on feedback from my tutors and peers. In Geoff Petty’s Teaching Today, he suggests that much to everyone’s surprise even students don’t like the typical lecture style teach that is often used. ‘’Don’t fall for the commonly believed myth that students are fundamentally lazy, preferring activities which intrude as little as possible into their daydreaming. In general, the more active and engaged students are, the better they like it.’’ (Petty, 2009, p.141). When writing my lesson plan I paid close attention Yelon’s Framework. This is a fundamental way of organising the lesson from start to finish. Yelon suggests that every instructional plan should include motivation, orientation, information, application and evaluation activities. In his book Powerful Principles of Learning Stephen L. Yelon states ‘’How does a person become an outstanding teacher or trainer? The answer to this question is critical for those whose job it is to prepare individuals for assuming that role. According to Leach (1996),“There is more than a catalog of knowledge and skills that defines the excellent trainer’’(p.8) In other words it is unlikely that a focus on the common instructional methods, such as the lecture, discussion, role-play, facilitation, games and simulations, and assorted related media skills, will develop the competencies needed for excellent practitioners’’ (Yelon, 2009, p.190). When writing my lesson plan, I made sure I was including some activities to help engage the students in the class, so they weren’t becoming easily bored.