Session 6

Points to consider for your microteach:

- you will be teaching your classmates - they will not be 'pretending' to be your students and will act as themselves, educated professionals

- as in every group, there are likely to be different levels of ability - you're also individuals, e.g. if you're teaching a Maths lesson, some classmates may be better at Maths than others (I belong to the latter group, for instance )

- doing some differentiation may help with this, e.g. pairing up, simplifying tasks, giving more/additional tasks to those who are better at Maths

- if you don't feel comfortable with differentiation, just think of small modifications - how can a given task be simplified or made more difficult if necessary or have another version of the same activity

- if you want to find out roughly levels of ability/knowledge of your subject, just ask some students this Wednesday to get a rough idea; if you want I can show you how to make a simple questionnaire

- I can assure you that your classmates will behave like regular students - some will be excited, some may be bored - think how are you going to deal with that?

- everybody likes doing something interesting or fun - including your classmates!

- don't share everything - keep some mystery so they're excited on the day!

- don't overplan! Every lesson aims for learners to achieve lesson objectives and if you don't check learning at the end because you have ran out of time, then objectives will not be met

- think of embedding some active learning, though it's not so easy now due to social distancing

- you can absolutely do a short online quiz, like Kahoot/Quizlet/Google Form - don't know how to use it....then just go to YouTube and watch a tutorial

- try to have fun on the day!