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https://drive.google.com/file/d/10LZyklRkJ_XnWN91clR_14qoTZEKPmym/view?usp=sharing
Part 2
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How did you feel while teaching?
I felt much better at this point, after I'd started teaching and the students were engaged. I felt like the class flowed a lot better, and even when there were mistakes, both on my part and the students part, it was no big deal and we laughed at them as we corrected them. The atmosphere was past the awkwardness of having a friend teach the class Chinese, and everybody was enjoying practicing the information they were learning.
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What were the strengths of the lesson?
The practicality of it. The students were using real Chinese words, pronounced correctly, to have a basic, but very real conversation with each other in Chinese. Also decorating the my stick figures with the respective features to match whoever was filling in that role seemed to be a hit, especially with the youngest student.
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What do you feel could be worked on/improved next time?
There was some confusion as to what role the students were playing, and what role I was playing. I think next time I need to be clearer on the outset of what's going to happen, and what they can expect.
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Is there anything you would change if you did this lesson again?
Definitely the above, giving clearer instructions and let them know exactly what to expect, so there's no confusion. Also, more space to walk around in. Acting out both sides of the dialogue was kind of awkward, trying to walk on both sides of the table.
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Did you come away with any new insights or understanding?
Right towards the start of the video, a student asked a question about how to express something in the language, and that made me so incredibly happy. Taking the patterns of a foreign language, and plugging in words we already know to make sentences and convey ideas is legitimately my favorite thing about learning languages. When that student asked the question, I could see the gears in the students mind mulling over that point exactly, and using the patterns we had just talked about to try and say something in Chinese that we didn't explicitly talk about. That extrapolation of ideas is what its all about to me, and being able to help someone both appreciate that, and reach that point, brings me great joy.