Friday, March 7, 2008

does my friends' evaluation good for me?

First and foremost I do think that my friends’ evaluations on my simulated teaching do help me improve my performance. This is because their constructive evaluation can help me notice my mistakes when I conduct my simulated teaching. As a typical human being, I cannot detect my own mistakes unless others tell me so. There is where my friends’ evaluations play their part. Through their evaluation I can understand where my mistakes are and how I could improve my performance next time I do simulated teaching.

Moreover, their constructive comments and evaluations, helps me gain my confidence and notice where my strong point in conducting the simulated teaching is. By knowing my own strong point, I know that some how I have what it takes to teach in class. This increases my level of confidence more. It is really important for me to gain confidence in conducting simulated teaching. This is because; I want to be a teacher that is good and able to conduct a good teaching method in class. My friends’ evaluations help me one step further on becoming a good teacher.

In conclusion, by having my friends to evaluate my simulated teaching, I could improve my performance of becoming a good teacher. Plus, I also gain more important point on improving my performance next time.

what i think of evaluating my friends' simulated teaching.

As a future teacher, I do need to learn how to evaluate others' works so that I could have the ability to evaluate my future students' works properly. However, when it comes to evaluating my friends' simulated teaching, it is very difficult to me. This is because I was unable to focus on her simulated teaching due to the fact that I am busy writing some evaluation notes on her teaching. This does not help my friends much because they need all cooperation from all of us to focus on her lesson and give participation in class as students.

Moreover, I do think that it is hard to evaluate my friends’ simulated teaching because giving some judgment on my friends’ performances gives me such a headache. This is because my relationship with them does play a major part when I am evaluating. This is probably because I do not want to hurt their feelings by giving some bad evaluation. This makes me realize that I am not very professional when conducting evaluation. Plus, it also makes me realize that when evaluating others’ works I need to give more constructive words rather than judgment on the performance.

As a whole, I do think that evaluating my friends’ simulated teaching is hard. However, I does teach me some valuable points on evaluation.