Sunday, March 16, 2008
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.
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I guess, my fellow course mate is right about his opinion in evaluating others. It is important for us to be aware that not every one of us is perfect and this evaluation can somehow help us in correcting our mistakes or flaws for later use in the future. Besides that, I agree with him that through this evaluation we will be more careful in conducting a micro-teaching next time around. All of the criteria needed for us are evaluated fairly by our peers in order to help each other in improving all of us. Therefore, we should appreciate this evaluation session for our own benefit.
I agree that evaluating others bring benefits to both ourselves and the person that is being evaluated. We know what are the mistakes that should not be done in a teaching while we are evaluating others. And we help to improve our friends' teaching too. The most effective evaluation is we evaluate others without any emotional bias and we evaluate based on what we feel about their teaching. Honesty is an important element that needed when evaluating others.
I think you are right Lee...In order for us to give constructive comments, we must be professional. It is important for us to leave behind our personal likings and disliking and move out from the ‘cocoon’ I would say...Grow up people! Criticism is part of character building. It is important that we have the skill to give constructive criticism and also the ability to face one. When we are unable to acquire the adequate skills in both these areas...we are in big trouble. As future teachers, it is important that we do not use our personal bias in reflecting the students. What I observe in some of our course mates (very few though), they comment on insignificant things and marginalizing the important aspects in teaching. This should not be the way if we are to criticize...Remember people...criticizing is not about attacking people... it is about helping them to improve...If you can’t lend your hands, then might as well you keep your mouth shut....hehehe....but there is always room for improvements...hope we can all learn from each other.
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