Teaching Reflections

Just penning down some thoughts to remind myself of how I can improve my pedagogy and teaching further.

• Avoid overpreparing - I tend to spend hours and hours in order to come up with one lesson. This wastes a lot of time and makes each lesson more 'teacher-centred' because I'm so focused on delivering what I've spent hours preparing. Students should be doing more work and I should be channeling my time and energy into giving feedback, rather than planning lessons.
  
  
• Meet students in the middle - I tend to think of all the things that students get wrong in the past, without realising that the average student or maybe most of them, would have understood after saying it once or twice. I seem to feel the need to be really REALLY sure that students understand. Yet, there will still be a student or two who still do not get it - and probably do not benefit from this 'mass lecture' but require personalised feedback and attention. 
  
  
• Include more group activities in online learning - students want the opportunity to interact with their friends. On the other hand, another group of students did express that they were fed up of group presentations (FIB)

Also, I think I need to deal with my insecurity and need for approval or feeling inadequate. This has caused me to overprepare for a lot of things and then have no energy or willpower to look at marking.

Praying that the next semester will be a better one :')