Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

Your Micro-teaching Task
At this point of the planning process for teaching you are almost half way in 
planning for your micro-lesson.
•  Choose a suitable topic from your teaching subject and plan a 10 mi-
nute lesson. 2 minutes introduction 7 minutes lesson development and 
1 minute to conclude.
•  Follow the lesson plan format.
•  Study the techniques used in introduction, teaching methods and 
concluding techniques and choose appropriate ones for this micro-les-
son 
•  Plan to teach only one concept of the sub-topic you choose to avoid 
over planning
•  Prepare your lesson plan in triplicate one for you to use during the 
lesson and the others for the supervisors just in case you have more than 
one.
•  Prepare a teaching aid or resources suitable for the lesson you choose
•  View the micro-teaching facility before hand and organize the class 
room set up to suit your lesson

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•  Ensure you have writing material chalk, duster, blackboard ruler, poin-
ter etc
•  Prepare notes for the lesson.
•  Teach the lesson, evaluate it, comment on it and follow up in order to 
improve your self.
Your primary responsibility as a class room teacher is to guide the learning ac-
tivities of the learners. As a teacher you will occupy the role of a leader and you 
will be interacting with the students as individuals or as a group. In the process 
of interacting you will influence the learners.
Guided by your own experiences how did your teachers influence who you are 
today? Explain in 20-30 words
You have probably summarized their influence on you as either positive or nega-
tive. What type of influence do you want to have on your learners?
As you interact with learners your influence on them falls under these three 
categories;
•  Sometimes intentional with planned behaviour
•  Sometimes consciously without planning
•  Very often unaware of your behaviour and the effect it has on the lear-
ning process.
As you prepare to teach a microteaching lesson you will put into practice all you 
learned in activity 1-3 especially the skills on classroom interaction. As a teacher 
your influence should be intentional with planned behaviour. In the end you 
should be asking yourself ‘did I teach what I set out to teach’