I had a wonderful class when include effective teaching in my lesson delivery. After I delivered my lesson, I felt that effective teaching was important because it provide students with the knowledge that education is accessible to everyone. It encourages my students to become active learners and most importantly my students had the chance to bring their own experiences to what we discussed during our lesson. During that time, I was teaching social science to Year 7 students at BTC JSS and effective teaching allow my students to share more ideas and interact with their peers in discussing different opinions.
Firstly, I created a lesson plan and in my lesson plan, I choose a debate activity for my students to carry out as an interactive activity. Our topic was gender equality and students have to debate the idea “Gender equality is not a good thing” Refer to Appendix 1 to see the teaching aids that I used for that debate activity. I distributed students to work in two groups, the first group they were the supporters, and the second groups were the opposition side. But, first, before they carry out the debate they will work in their groups and list down their ideas why they support or are against the idea. It was an interactive and effective activity because students worked together to share ideas and participated in debating their views on why they supported or against the given statement or idea refer to Appendix 2 to see how students interact in that debate activity.
At the end of the lesson my teacher gave me feedback on effective teaching, and I was very glad to receive it because most of its indicators were accomplished in my lesson. I was also given some ways to improve my effective teaching which was on asking more questions and giving students the chance to express their views in class. I had to use more questions and give more tasks for students to have the chance to speak and express ideas during class.
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