REFLECTION ON GROUP 1 MICRO TEACHING

(Aug 08, 2015)

Teaching context:
Level: Grade 10
Lesson: VOLUNTARY WORK
Skill : Speaking
1. Strength
- Teacher tried to dress well and the lesson is designed with clear and
correct procedures.
- Activities were quite various and logic.
2. Weakness
- There is no classroom description, no approach introduction, no
information about learners. Therefore, there is no reason to reflect the
interactiveness of the topic.
a. Pre speaking activities
- Warm up activity is well prepared to engage students to the topic.
- Pre teaching vocabulary is effective but teacher did not give clear
instructions to students in the matching game, leading to students
misguided to get ideas for their speaking activities later on, and
teacher missed the target of activities.
b. While speaking
- Teacher used ALM approach to deliver model conversation. ALM
works very well if teacher want to practice a structure and help
students form new habit of using new structure. Personally, I find this
approach inappropriate to teach pre intermediate level because this
level has enough essential structure to produce a sentence without
model sentences. Moreover, there is no specific structure focused in
this lesson and ALM become time consuming.
- There is no context for speaking.
3. Suggestions
- Put students in group more and let them elicit the main ideas rather
than prepare all main ideas for speaking.

- Teacher should give clear description of classroom background such

as class size, learners to select the approach and techniques, the topic
and content.
- If the teacher chooses an authentic topic, material should b authentic
then. Procedure should be more interactive with context in real life.