Being evaluated...

When I get back the peer evaluation sheets from my fellow course mates, it is interesting to actually know how we performed or to see ourselves in the eye of the other party. Most of the time we will think that we are almost perfect and there are no need of any improvements. Firstly, as a human being naturally we tend to have self fulfilling bias. Eventually we fail to see what are our weaknesses and deficiencies that require our attention to make improvements for the better. By the help of our friends’ evaluations, we may have the opportunity and chance to see our own default or what had gone wrong. Sometimes we just fail to realize it but almost always the people around us can easily identified our fault, as the saying goes, a good friend is indeed our best mirror. Nevertheless, at the moment we receive the feedbacks, first and foremost we need to accept it sincerely, then only we will accept our friends’ critics and suggestions as helpful constructive advices that could help us in correcting our mistakes and avoid from committing it again in the future. We should not perceive it as personal attacks and ignore the constructive comments and suggestion. In other words be open-minded and take count of the suggestions and try to improve as much as possible.

Evaluating others...

Well, honestly I think that the main purpose of evaluating our friends who are doing their micro-teaching is to make us, the audience, to pay attention to what is being taught by our fellow friends. As a result, in the process of evaluating the others, we may consider a few aspects so that we would not repeat the same mistakes or we may include what is good and appropriate while preparing our own micro teaching. While we evaluate others, we will have the tendency of reflecting it back on us. In doing so, indirectly it will develop a sense of awareness so that we will be more prepared the next time when it is our turn to do the micro-teaching. For example, we will think again whether our set induction is appropriate or otherwise, is our activity interesting, or can my students listen to me clearly, is my instruction clear enough for them to understand, and so on. Most of the time we tend to assume that we are well prepared and there is no need of any improvement, but most likely there are rooms for improvements. In realizing our weaknesses and fault, we may put an effort to rectify our mistakes and to further improve what is already good to better. Lastly, one need to be honest and reasonable in evaluating, we need to put aside all the personal and emotional feeling aside to be able to give a healthy and constructive critics.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire is an example of a modern tragic hero and with the viewing of the movie it gives me a better understanding of the setting in which the play comes about. From the movie I can easily visualize the environment in New Orleans. Besides that through the movie, the as audience rather then a reader we get to see the actors acting out the event and it helps us comprehend the play better. Lastly I would say that the movie is rather helpful as the lines spoke by the actors are exactly the same as the text that we had and the movie follow very closely the stage direction, setting, and very little alteration are made.

Shakespeare Wallah

After watching the movie entitled Shakespeare Wallah, although the movie is quiet boring but what actually caught my attention is the message of the movie. The movie comes about the challenges that a Shakespearean play faced during the post colonial era. Basically, the people beginning to feel that the plays are boring and uninteresting as well due to the poor quality stage setting and costumes. In Fact, the up rising motion pictures industries also contributed to the down fall of the Shakespearean theatre and in this movie the people prefer to watch the Bollywood motion picture rather than a Shakespearean life performance. Eventually this is also happening in our society nowadays without us realizing it. The teenagers today prefer to watch movies in cinema instead of viewing a play. Don’t believe me? Question yourself, how many times have you watch a play and how many times have you watch a movie?