Demo-teaching

A Day with Andy

        Last September 26, 2016, Monday, we had a teaching demonstration in our subject Educational Technology 2. The main purpose of our demo is to use technology-based instruction. The title of our demo is “A Day with Andy”, our main focus here is the students will be able to count from 1-5. We started the activity through song entitled “Five Fingertips” in the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 

In our discussion, there is a girl named Andy who needs a help to buy ingredients for baking a chocolate cake. The students have their own list and they will check after picking up the ingredients.

 In our Application and Generalization, there were questions posted on the screen. The students will come and click the right answer using the mouse. 

In our Evaluation, there were pictures of fruits and vegetables posted on the screen; the students will count those pictures and will answer by raising alternative-response card.

21^st  Century learners now are more on technology, young or adult are now using it. Technology makes our world easy and interesting. Especially for teachers, it will help us to impart learning easy. It is very important that teachers can adopt on the changing environment.Educational technology is very relevant for teachers and mostly for students. This kind of subject is useful for those who are taking up Education. It teaches Education students on what other strategies he/she can use. That’s why I’m happy for having a subject like this.

In our Educational Technology teaching demonstration, there are positive and negative that stood out. The positive was our audience-that are of my age like our power point presentation. The negative was in my part there was  a technical problem happened. Our voice records cannot be heard for students; voice records are very important in our presentation. Then on that time, there was a dead air in our presentation.

In our teaching demonstration, the activity I like that we have implemented is when children will count the pictures on screen and they will raise their answer using the response card.

If I will be given a chance to teach it again the first thing I will do is check first the materials if it’s working or not. I will count the shopping list again and again to check if it’s still complete. Also, if I were given a chance I want to do it individually, so if there’s something wrong happened the blame will be in me; others will not be affected.

As a teacher, I learned that there are many ways to impart learning. This Technology-Based instruction made me realize that I can make a lesson or story using a PowerPoint presentation because before I know that PowerPoint is only used for making reports in class. Also using this kind of instruction it will attract more the attention of students because they will feel excited on what they will see next.

As undergraduate student, I discover that I can do better when using a technology. While we were doing the PowerPoint presentation I discover something new. I discover on how to remove the background in pictures; inserting a background music in all sides and how to trim it; putting motion path on the pictures. Making this kind of presentation needs more patience because you need to find pictures that are appropriate for preschoolers and you need to edit it.