My Mini Portfolio

     According to me, a teacher should be one of the comfort zones that a child can have in his or her life. Because in order to make the teaching-learning process a successful one the students should have a space to freely express themselves as they are and that is when a teacher can answer the needs of the students. It is more like how a well-skilled doctor diagnoses the illnesses of his patients. If the patient cooperates accordingly only the doctor will be able to do the treatments to cure the illness. Likewise, a well-trained teacher would be able to successfully diagnose the needs and the lack of language skills that the students have, if only the students are able to truly showcase themselves and then the teacher will eventually find ways to overcome their language difficulties.       I honestly do not believe that teachers should maintain so-called traditional authoritative roles in their ways of shaping students. What actually succeeds ...

       In my teaching demonstration, I have selected a speaking lesson to teach 6 th graders how to showcase expressions and feelings in their speech using specific sound variations, tones, hand gestures, and facial expressions. Here I have selected a very unique and interesting activity to do in the classroom. By doing that the classroom was filled with a great deal of excitement and fun. At the beginning of the activity, the attention-grabbing techniques I used were as successful as I expected them to be. I started the lesson by giving a warm-up session for the students who were sitting for a long time studying lots of grammar and vocabulary lessons. I believe that it prevented the students from being lazy and playing numb around the speaking activities.        Good engagement was maintained throughout the lesson without fading at the latter parts of the lesson. The students were engaging in fun-filled activities with constant energy and exci...

  Wasana Ilangarathne (HS/TE18/0018) who demonstrated the lesson on the sounds of animals, a vocabulary lesson for grade 3 students, has done a great job with her demonstration. The selected lesson is very much suitable for her selected grade and the way she interacted with the students is very commendable because she used lots of attention-grabbing techniques throughout the session such as questioning and eliciting to ensure that the students were thorough with the given knowledge. Also, the way she used instructions breaking into chunks without packing up students’ minds with instructions of lengthy sentences is very much suitable for the selected graders. Room for improvement, a.       Posture I suggest her to choose 2 specific spots in front of the class and switch accordingly while acting out the animal’s sound and its vocabulary in order to make students install the given knowledge easier and clearer. b.       Audibili...