Noise creates noise

Today's post is going to be focused on the microteaching presentation my classmates presented today. There were two different presentations and both of them have been highly interesting and well-done. 

The first presentation was about the meaning of 'hot food', at the beginning it seemed to be related to words such as 'spicy food', 'sexy food' and so on, however, they gave us a poem to analyze and our perspective changed a lot. They built a classe and they structured it in a very organized way, the timing was perfect and the activites were explained in a very clear way so that the class these activities were adressed to would have understood it all. I would say they used strategies to enhance the audience. Moreover, they delivered it in such a convincing way that we all get amazed by their presentation from the very beginning.

The second presentation was about the bones and muscles and each student had to fill in the gaps with the specfic words of each part of the body. They did also a great job because they showed they had been working on it as it was very well structured. Nevertheless, I would polish a tiny detail which comes to be the beginning of the presentation when they asked us the fill in the gabs. As it is, I actually do not know all the parts of the body by heart so I should have placed a box with the vocabulary needed.

Apart from that, after having finished with the presentations, we have been dicussing the way teachers should speak in front of their students. Should day shout? Should they speak out loud all the time? Shoud they shut up while students are talking? Should they leave the class? We have been learnt that the best way to do it is by wating for silence, if the teacher speaks louder it means she is making more noise, and noise creates noise, so teachers should project their voice without screaming. At first, I get shocked because it does not seem to be an easy task, nevertheless, after considering it, I arrived to the conclusion that it is indeed the best choice, because teachers are a referent, or at least they should be so, and being a referent means behaving in your best way.