Personal Experience: Course Analysis

This course was a challenge for me. But, somehow I intuitively felt that this course will turn myself upside down. And when came the first day, I felt uncomfortable, because it started to unpack the things that I try to hide far, far away to forget since my childhood. I am talking about my shy, red face during my music performance or reading a poem in front of the class. I felt myself again a shy, little girl. But my major is Education. I love kids, to teach them and learn from them. But without performing skills I will not be able to be a successful teacher. I’m so glad that I had this opportunity to participate and learn a lot of helpful strategies that will help me to improve my teaching performance during my lessons. During this course, I had an opportunity to learn and try a lot of different techniques. These techniques are used by real actors for their performance and very helpful for teachers to know. For example, every teacher must be a great speaker and the ability to change the timbre of the voice. The read-aloud activity helped me to improve and practice my skills in diction and voice tone during the reading. Also, I was able to …show more content…
This part, of course, opened me a new reading style. I am not saying that I didn’t know about this writing style, I just didn’t have a situation in my life to read this kind of book. It was a great example of how dramatic reading looks and then try and participate my final performance. The final performance will be tomorrow. I am writing my reflection day before, but I can definitely say that this performance and everything that I learn in during this course will be in my used in my teaching career. I can see and imagine how I and my students preparing some scenes from history for better understanding and practice their visualization. Or invite the parents for holiday show, for example, Mother’s day, and perform poems, some beautiful scenes, dance, and