Microteaching - "Coach Carter"⚽🥅✨

...just as I was about to shoot my shot, the coach yelled "let's run-it up again!" There's something so inspiring about watching coach in action, is it the long black sweater, or the way she yells "Again!". Well, coaches need a mentor too, here are feedback from two of mine.

I had the opportunity of standing in coach's shoes as a Physical education coach to a grade 3 classroom. The lesson presented met the necessary objectives: I was able to upload and download content, and optimally utilize the platform by using various features, such as the screen share option.

Considering the nature of the lesson - Physical education: an outdoors lesson - had to be adapted for an online setting by artfully, concisely, and clearly guiding the participants of the lesson using age-appropriate and subject-specific language to ensure that the necessary objectives set-out for the lesson was met. The ICT tools used were easy to access by myself and the participants.

"Practice makes perfect", something that coach Carter always says.

I've learned that the possibility of education is available and accessible everywhere, it is up to the educator to have the willingness and drive to adapt to the means of education - navigating through an online space for a lesson prepared for outside, can be challenging, especially for ICT-foreigners. I have learned the importance of acquiring various skills as a teacher and practicing it as often as possible, I've also gained a new appreciation for teacher-teacher support, and it is something that I desire to carry into my years of teaching, as a point of aspiration.

"There is always room for growth." A cliche, but definitely true, coach always displayed humility the pride of our abilities and hers, but never used it as an excuse to avoid celebrating small wins.

Teaching-and-learning is a process made of several other processes, such as reflection, which is essential for improvement.

Go-on, click to see what one of the participants (learners) had to say!

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Right out of the mouth of babes, huh!

Feedback from teachers/ colleagues, learners, and other educational stakeholders is essential, thus it should be appreciated as it creates an opportunity for the teacher to make a meaningful difference in a diverse classroom, as in many South African school-settings. This is how I have used the feedback:

• Practically: count slower as suggested and consider and prepare for the possibilities of vastly diverse learners in ability and state (physical and intellectual).