I’m currently sitting at my desk in my home office – juggling the reworking of our MoLeNET research questions and the knock-on effect of having to ensure that the detail stays within the scope of the initial project bid… I’m also going to do some reflective work on my Post-16 teaching course and then I guess I’ll need to start writing my lesson plans for after Christmas!!!
Has anyone else ever spent time looking back over their own blog and thought “Wow, that looks interesting – I don’t remember writing that”?
I was checking through mine a couple of days ago and had totally forgotten some of the posts I’d made a few years back when I was on Blogspot. I guess we spend so much time reading other peoples blogs and Tweets, etc. that it’s so easy to forget about your own prior work.
I had a really great experience delivering my first micro-teaching session last nite. I’ve already posted about what I was aiming to deliver (The Digital You) – but I did end up having to revise it somewhat… (is that always going to happen???)
Although I had checked the timings of the advertisements and worked out roughly what I was going to say – I hadn’t really allowed enough time for the group discussion about ‘must-have’ mobile phone features. I guess this is always going to be tricky to work out, given that learners ask questions, get side-tracked, go off-task, etc. I had to reduce the session by cutting out the final part, which was to search on-line for a phone, using the criteria the learners came up with.
Anyway – it worked, I felt comfortable (apart from having to go over the Aims & Objectives) and I got some useful and mainly positive peer feedback. 
Something I observed during another micro-lesson, was that the student-teacher read out the A&O from paper and was visibly out of their comfort zone – which is exactly what I did… I guess I’m comfortable with my subject matter and reasonably comfortable with delivering it – it’s just the formality of the A&Os etc. that I have to get to grips with.
aims & objectives
Been working the lesson plan for my first observed Micro-teaching lesson, which I have to deliver next Tuesday nite.
I’m going to be facilitating some group-work; practical skills; problem solving, and a small presentation.
I’ll be encouraging the learners to think about their own use of and/or perceptions of mobile phones.
Working on the premise that ‘most’ people do not know about/use/need the majority of functionality in a cutting-edge handset, but yet are influenced by the marketing when they buy their phone.
I will introduce the subject and demonstrate a few models of handsets.
Learners will discuss features (in groups) and agree a set of functions they would require and expect as standard from a phone.
Learners will write the functions on strips of paper and we’ll make up a physical display on the whiteboard.
We will watch a couple of powerful mobile phone adverts – we will discuss them as a whole class and try to understand who the target audience is – do the Learners identify with any of these social stereo-types?
We will then use the Internet to ‘buy’ a new phone by selecting all the features our groups decided on…
What make/model of handset will they get?
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