Learning through teaching?

Last Thursday my group and I presented our microteaching which actually dealt with the way in which a school report is mainly structured. The task of creating and developing a microteaching consisted of doing it addressed to students. In this case, we chose students from 1st of Batxillerat. As it is, we divided our microteaching in five main lessons

1. The first one was focussed on the explanation of the main sections of a newspaper so as to put students in context, there were some activites they must complete as well as the introduction of the main parts a report should have

2. The second lesson was done to teach the main connectors students should use to write a school report and therefore to express agreement and disagreement, there were also some activites they must fullfill.

3. The third lesson was mainly focussed on the full knowledge of the connectors they must use. For doing so, they were given some activities in which connectors should be use, and therefore they became aware of the meaning these connectors posses as well as knowing when to use them

4. The fourth lesson was made to write the report, in this lesson the teacher was giving feedback to students' work.

5. In the fifth and last lesson students were thaught to upload the report into a blog.

As it is, there are a great number of aspects I learned after doing the microteaching. However, the most important thing I learned was the way in which activites were to be adressed to students. In order to creat a good atmosphere in your class, it is crucial that activities are dynamic and that these activites call students' attention from the very beginning of the class. Students will know if they like what they are doing from the very beginning, that is the main reason why teachers must catch their attention doing something they feel attracted for, so that they pay attention to the rest of the class.

There are a great number of strategies English' teachers can use to make their classes enhancing and charming so that students understand the content they are exposed to.