Simulated Teaching

I think that the teacher can use a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills through simulated teaching presentations in classroom. It is because, I really assume that this simulated teaching presentations are very important stages in opening the correct schemata and getting the students interest. A poor and outdated strategy might be boring to our students; in contrast, an attractive and interesting strategy will help us to get our student attention easily. Once we fail to attract our students, maybe they will not listen to our class for the next lesson. For example, I do feel that by giving such unrelated and boring tasks to the students during the simulated teaching processes, these really make the class fall asleep. For my set induction stage, I choose to use power point presentation to catch the students’ attention of the lesson. I use The Ring Doesn’t Fit as for my microteaching text and in this play, the term or element of wedding is portrays by the author. So, for my set induction section, I show pictures of wedding ceremonies and give them clues about the possibilities that may happen during a wedding ceremony. I give certain situations about it and it seems that the students get interest on it. They give their attention by answering my questions and get involve with the lesson. As a teacher, we are not to be knowledgeable, but also creative in a way teaching them. We must create creative activities to attract students and built up their interest to the subject. We also have to be friendly but a bit strict, so that students will listen to us and pay full attention while we are teaching. In short, I feel that the way we as a teacher use the approaches in our simulated teaching should be focused more on students’ needs for their learning process and at the same time it will make the lesson meaningful for them to acquire it.

Watching movie!!

Elizabeth In The Golden Age. It was the first movie that Dr. Edwin asked us to watch. This movie portrayed women in power. I personally always admired woman who were in power and in this movie, Elizabeth who was the queen of England played a very important role. She was full with braveness and courage and as a queen who was supposed to lead all her people, she gave everything that she could give. For example we could see, when the Spanish came to conquer England, England was losing all their ships in the war and most of the people died, as a queen she did not see herself as a woman, she herself went to the war to fight with the spanish. Elizabeth was also good in making decisions. I could see clearly in this play, she wasn't dependent on anyone. Although she listens to some people for advice but eventually she makes her own decision. There were other things that I wanted to share here about this movie but, I wanted to share one thing why Dr. Edwin had asked us to watch such movie. It was because, he would like us to get the ideas about how the time, the people, the places in Elizabethan era would look alike. It helped us lots in understanding the play during that era and gave us a clear view about people those days. We could simply make comparisons of plays between our time and Elizabethan era. From this movie, we could see woman as a leader and she was a good, dependable queen for her people...

Critical Casebook: Sophocles!!

Honestly, I didn’t bother about this book when I get it for the first time. The language itself had made me felt very lazy to read it. But, I had to force myself to read it for my drama’s class. I had to do it so..huuuuuu...Since Dr. Edwin was the one who reading together with us through the lines in class, it had made our days more easier in order to understand the story line. Then, I started to enjoy my drama class and tried to get into the text. Hopefully, by the end of this semester, all of us will be able to answer the final and here I would like to retell the story based on my understanding with you guys. Laius and Jocasta were king and queen of Thebes, a town in Greece. One day, they had a baby boy. An oracle prophesied that the boy would grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. To thwart the prophecy, Laius and Jocasta decided to kill their baby. In those days, it was usual to leave an unwanted or defective baby in the wilderness. Laius and Jocasta did this. To be extra-sure, they pierced his little feet and tied them together. A kindly shepherd found the baby. He gave the baby to a friend, who took it to Corinth, another town. The king and queen of Corinth couldn't have a baby of their own. So they adopted the foundling. Nobody ever told little Oedipus that his mother was never pregnant. One day, after he had grown up, a drunk mentioned his being adopted. Oedipus questioned his parents, but they denied it. Oedipus visited various oracles to find out whether he was really adopted. All the oracles told him instead that he would kill his father and marry his mother. To thwart the oracles, Oedipus left Corinth permanently. Travelling the roads, Oedipus got into a traffic squabble and killed a stranger who (unknown to him) was King Laius. In one version, there was a dispute over right-of-way on a bridge. In those days, high rank got to go first, Oedipus identified himself as heir to the throne of Corinth, and for some reason Laius's people simply attacked instead of explaining that he was king of Thebes. Some versions say that the rude Laius drove over Oedipus's sore foot, making him lose his temper. Soon Oedipus's smarts saved the town of Thebes, and he was made king. Oedipus married Laius's widow, Queen Jocasta. He ruled well, and they had four children. Eventually, Oedipus and Jocasta found out what had really happened. Here, you must assume that accidentally killing your father and marrying your mother is a disaster. Jocasta committed suicide, and Oedipus blinded himself and became a wandering beggar. From this story, Dr. Edwin had asked us to pay close attention to the aspects of dramatic irony, elements of fate (moira), the riddle and how Oedipus solves it and its far reaching consequences, the prophesies and how they are fulfilled, the tragic flow in Oedipus and some other aspects. From this time, I will try to find out all these aspects and will use all the information about Oedipus Rex that I have gained from Dr. Edwin’s class for my final exam preparation.