Reflection About The Mime Game

5.2 Critical Reflection Essay

The students from the Form 2 Avicennia were such a pleasure to work with and the cooperation given was wonderful. The lesson which was conducted by using the teaching kit for the element of character went quite splendidly and I was comfortable with how the flow of the lesson went. When I prompted the questions to recall some background knowledge on the previous lesson on the short story “Cheat!”, the students I have randomly picked were able to give their response quite fast and some of them were almost instantaneously. When the students were told that they were going to learn more about the characters by playing the mime game, most of them showed a positive spirit to learn and enthusiastically waiting for the

One of the most significant weakness detected was during the presentation stage or when the mime game was held. I have spent a little too much time on the explanation on the mime game because I did not want the students to be confused or baffled when the real game has actually started. Nonetheless, the actual game actually dragged or taken about 45 minutes to be completed which means there were only 10 minutes to execute the closure or the reinforcement stage. Plus, because of the time overrun, only three students from the each group were able to role play the character as a mime. It was such a pity that the game could not be continued for another round because of the constrained lesson time. Another weakness that I have spotted during the actual lesson is although miming an act for the student was not that hard, mime is an activity that highlights the facial expressions of the person miming. While some of them can actually delivered an accurate face expression, some of them actually act as a mime with static face expression. For example, a students was intended to act the word “bewildered”. While the movement was there, the absence of the face expression make it difficult for her group member to pinpoint what was the emotion the representative trying to bring to life. Lastly, a little

In future lessons, I will try and control myself from not talking too much or try to explicitly giving instructions about new activities to the students and try to give a simple yet compact orders to the students so that they actually will have much more time to get involved in the presentation stage. Moreover, in the upcoming lesson, I will research and design activities that will highlight the students’ various kinds of learning strengths whether it is in speaking, role- playing writing or reading. Furthermore, because of their improvement in the mastery of English language has improved significantly, I will devise future worksheets that will require higher critical thinking skills where questions on the level of appreciation will be much more frequent. I will also try my best to include more interesting props and make use more of the latest technology and software such as virtual classrooms so that I can deliver and post any extra information that cannot be delivered through face-to-face