I wanted to
use Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle in order to briefly visualize my
metacognitive process about the two workshop presentations in this class.
In order to
start, I would like to develop in a deeper way my views about the presentation
with the use of “Quiz Creator”. Those 10 minutes in front of the class were
quite comfortable for me. I also felt that my activity was well organized, applied
and understood. The atmosphere was calm and I was very confident about what I
was doing. For that reason I could realize that when someone is proud about
his/her performance at dealing with something new, it is easier for him/her to
present and explain it. Concluding, it was a nice workshop that I am definitely
going to use in the future, and I will try to improve my weaknesses in terms of
classroom movement, use of the computer and pitch.
Now,
describing a bit more my perceptions about the second task, I must admit that
it was a veeery huuge challenge for me. I spent hours and hours trying to
create something worthy along with the use of each of the “elements” that were
shown in the class. I did around five improvements to the same presentation and
then I started a new one. I truly believe that that indecision was caused by my
insecurity towards my “pre-presentation” performance. As I was not sure about
what I was doing, I always found that my job was awful, but finally I tried to
cheer myself up and calmly present my work. During the presentation some drawbacks
appeared: I mistook one cable, the audio did not work, and some others that
took minutes from my presentation. Unlike my first presentation, those 10
minutes were infinite. But the good thing is that, after all, I could manage
everything, and it was not that awful as I had in mind. To end up with, I am
really grateful for the opportunity to use this innovative technological
resource, because now I know how it is to present with this kind of activities.
For a future task, I will join all these reflection for keep on improving my
role as a student, so as a future teacher J .
Ps: I found this quote that may wrap up all what
has been written here: “Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the
test first, the lesson afterwards” (Vernon Saunders Law)
That quotation explains exactly what we are doing in this subject. You are learning from your experience, by doing, by rehearsing, failing, trying again, living the experience yourself. That's the good part of being a training teacher. This is when you experiment and produce as much material as you can. And you said it yourself, when you felt confident, everything turned out well, even if something did not work as you expected. Confidence is the key.
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