Teaching Reflection

Teaching Reflection

This paper is set out as a reflection of the teaching conducted for the current group of students in the 2017 Cohort of MOD 001869.The challenge with the teaching is that it is meant to be collaborative teaching because three members are within the group and everybody should be actively involved in the planning and delivery of the teaching.

Team teaching can be motivating learning activities for both the students and the teachers as it ensures an open and egalitarian learning environment which is learner centred. The teaching team bring a wide variety of ideas, knowledge, opinions, various teaching styles and personality to model collaborative teaching which could in-turn affect the learning behaviour of the student positively

This could be due to the fact that the teaching topic was a familiar territory to most of the group cohort because of previous experience about appraisal and the democratic teaching environment within the classroom which allows every student to feel safe and respected to contribute their own ideas. This in-turn would enhance a good learning experience and facilitate a resourceful teaching activities (Ayten2008). However, the class at a point in time was becoming quite chaotic due too many voices at the same time and the ‘classroom management objective which includes reinforcing the teaching activities, increase teaching time and supports learning atmosphere’ (Ayten 2008) was temporarily lost. In future, I think a good classroom management culture is essential, and the teacher needs to be in control of the class to facilitate a good learning environment which is one of the areas in my teaching career that needed to be improved upon. This view was supported by Ayten (2008) when he asserts that and effective classroom management is required for both student’s development and educational objectives. I feel a good classroom control is important in managing learner’s behaviour and ensure appropriate classroom behaviour for knowledge

I strongly feel as a teacher information should be clearly and systematically presented to aid learning activities and promote constructive alignment for learners to achieve the intended learning outcome .Sweller(1988) posit about cognitive overload and advice small information chunk at a time to allow the schema of the brain to process , retain and apply the information as appropriate .This I take on board as too crowded information could lead to information overload and impair the learning outcome of the