Opening and Closing in Teaching

Opening and closing skill while teaching is one of skill that we have to master as teacher trainee. We learned it in micro teaching class. Fortunately, I got a good model in practicing this skill, my lecturer. In this session, first ten student have to practice opening and closing skill. The other 11 students would be the assessor and the rest would be the students. The thing that should be considered when simulated it are:

The teacher trainee should tell the students the scope/ purpose of learning to be achieved by showing indicators and objectives of the study "why we learn degree of comparison" take as example.

 Another point is that attracting attention. It could be done through short song "English is important ...yes...yes...wiew...." the use of jargon.... "studentt....." "yes...."; 

The teacher should give reference. Do you know what means by reference? Reference is something dealing with "the teacher give referent toward questions that should be answered by the students. Take for example: "I have pets at home. Dog is my lovely pets. Do you have any pet at home?" or "We know that some animals are carnivore and some other are herbivore. Could you mention any carnivore that you know?"

Relating student's prior knowledge to the current issue:

(It deals with how the teacher relates or making connection between the previous material studied in previous meeting with the recent material that is explained. But it not a must to relate them when they just don't have any possible connection." What you have to do is to review previous material in previous meeting to check student's understanding for those material.

Reviewing student's understanding on the lesson by concluding/ summarizing what have been learnt

"by asking question : what do you learn today students?" or in other words we as a teacher can asked several questions regarding the material that just learned before "What is your understanding about degree of comparison that we just have learnt previously?" .....Answer: If the word/ adj consists of two syllable when making comparison it should be added by -er at the end of its adj, meanwhile for those which contains more than two syllable...it should be added by more in front of the adj...

The last but not least was evaluating. 

In here, the teacher have to give assignment that should be submitted on the following meeting.