Peer Teaching Experience Essay

In Hugh and Future’s peer teaching session, they had taught Chinese and music with the learning aims of learning how to write several Chinese characters and how to construct basic rhythm notes with pen-tapping beats. For the first twenty minutes, students learnt Chinese, specifically how to write basic characters and how to pronounce them with interesting stories and a humorous, yet informative supplement video. After watching at video, students assessed their learning by themselves through the task of writing Chinese characteristics that they could remember on a paper. During this task, two volunteering students took the same task on a white board, so that Future was able to mark them. Then, the topic of lesson had changed to the music which …show more content…
It is well-known that students feel secure and encouraged to be in a classroom with a teacher who demonstrates professional responsibilities by wearing an appropriate dress, embracing professional manners and respects and being firm, yet building a rapport with students. The event that Hugh was late for his team’s peer teaching session seemed that he was not prepared well for the lesson even before the start of their teaching, which led to be seemed as a low level of professional responsibility. However, apart from being late to the class, the teachers were leading the lesson very well because they were teaching what they know well. Future, whose nationality is China, taught the basic level of Chinese and Hugh who studies music, taught the rhythm with pen-tapping. This choice of teaching methods might help them to organise and plan the lesson well, hence increase their confidences in the lesson. Teachers being confident on their teaching are important since it allows student feel supported, encouraged, engaged and challenged. Future and Hugh’s teaching session have a great importance on my future teaching to build a positive teacher-student relationship by understand the materials that I would teach well so that I can plan and organise a lesson with an effective