Essay On Micro Teaching Experience

When planning the micro-teaching experience, it is essential to ensure the activities are suitable while also remaining engaging and meaningful to the target and incidental audience. Students from the year one class at West End State School and a diverse range of students from the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital are given the opportunity to participate in a performing arts experience planned by QUT preservice teachers. As we are unaware of the specific ages of the students from the hospital, we must ensure our experiences cater for diversity. As future early childhood educators, it is essential to cater for the diverse learning styles and abilities of students. Gardner’s (1978) ‘theory of multiple intelligences’ consists of seven different intelligences, creating a framework that will ensure the micro-teaching …show more content…
Our micro-teaching experience allows for students with visual-spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic and logical- mathematical intelligences to engage in multiple different parts of the lesson (Helding, …show more content…
The venue allows for multiple university groups to perform their experiences for the year one students and the diverse range of students from the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital School. In recognition, of the important role the learning environment plays in influencing students diverse learning perspectives; careful consideration has been emphasised to cater for diverse opportunities for play-based learning. The learning environment created encompasses the natural environment, for example the use of synthetic grass mat and kinetic sand. Referring only to floor plans and photographs of the venue before the experience made it hard to imagine the space that we would be working with, therefore, we have created an activity that is versatile and easily