Reflection on Microteaching

In general, I think my microteaching performance was okay but I am not satisfied.  My biggest challenge in teaching is always my speech speed.  It is so natural for me to speak fast and often times I lose my listeners.  I knew that if I could speak slower and enunciated clearer, my intonation would be calmer and I would express myself better.  Before the teaching, my husband had suggested me to lower my voice to sound calmer and clearer.  I took his suggestion and it did work well at the beginning. However, when I realized that I was short of time, I started to speak faster and louder.  Another thing I didn’t do well was when I realized that I couldn’t finish my lesson as planned, I was panic and lost of my train of thought.  I think I really have to work on these two things to become a better teacher. 

One thing I did well was that when one of my classmates couldn’t follow me, I stopped and showed him once more how to fold the paper. I think this is where effective communication happens between the teacher and the learner.  As a teacher, the focus should always be the students.  In my opinion, it is better to teach half of the lesson and have all the students understand the materials than to finish the whole lesson but only have half of the students understand the materials.