This was a very fun and revealing activity for me. I taught for the past 2 years in Prague, but it’s been over a year since my teaching was observed. The comments on my self-reflection were from before I received feedback from my peers, and I think that highlighted different points for improvement. Originally, when I filled in my reflection, I was happy with my interaction with all students and thought I could’ve improved on knowing how long each activity would take. However, once I received my feedback, it reminded me of some things I did during the lesson that I would also want to work on. Firstly, I remembered that when I had a silent moment during my “lecture” I kind of undercut myself, making some comment about losing my thought. That wasn’t true, I was just trying to gather my thoughts for the next activity. I want to work on not undercutting myself so that I can maintain teacher credibility. Secondly, I realized I didn’t really give a “road map” to my peers. So while I had an idea of where the lesson was going it might have appeared to them as just a collection of activities strung together. Therefore, I’d like to work on the more subtle ways I can build teacher credibility.
Great observations, Madison! It's all too easy to undercut ourselves -- and things that might seem glaring to us as teachers often don't even register with our students, unless we pointedly draw attention to them! This is a good lesson for any teacher to learn.
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