My strengths in my simulated teaching is my ability to project my voice and my ability to connect with the students. In my opinion, voice projection is very important in the teaching profession. I realize that when I teach, having good voice projection students tend to pay more attention. Since in real classroom situation, students will not pay much attention when the teacher speaks softly. So, I train myself to speak louder especially when doing my simulated teaching. Besides that, I also realize that I can connect to the students through a bit of humour. Listening to the students’ opinions is also part of connecting and understanding them. Students nowadays want to be heard and as teachers, I think should try to listen to the students’ views. The way I maintain this is through daily interaction and pay attention when someone is talking to me.
As for my weakness, I was not fully prepared during my simulated teaching. This affected my performances, thus, also affected my confidence. My exercises were not good enough because the extracts I chose for the pre-reading were inappropriate length. So for my other simulated teaching, I need to concentrate on these aspects as to not make the same mistakes again.
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