Improve for the better!

Evaluation is the best instrument in revealing about the strengths or weaknesses in everything we do. In Bloom’s taxonomy, it is the highest level of thinking and being evaluated is a positive way of develops one’s skills. I evaluated myself after have carried out my simulated teaching and to know whether I’m in the right track or the other. It’s seems to me that teaching literature is something subjective as well as studying about it. As a teacher trainee and students, I have to think in the light of these two positions in designing my lesson plan. What is good and effective for me may not be effective to my students. I may want to try out a few practical activities or approaches found in a book but there are certain items that need to be put into consideration. For instances, I need to identify my targeted students. Are they of low level of proficiency or intermediate or advance learners? This then will help me in designing my exercises and lesson plan. In planning for set induction, I need to make sure that the activity will help my students to get interested to the lesson. I learnt that without having a good set induction, students may not pay attention to the lesson. They wouldn’t even know what they are going to learn in class. Therefore, I need to be as creative as I can in developing my lesson plan so that I won’t spoil students’ interest in learning.