I prepared for my micro teach session and it was based on fonts and emotions. How do I feel about being observed? Sometimes my first initial thought is, oh no all eyes will be on me, try not be nervous.

Most of the time I try to start with an engaging icebreaker to relax the room. I‘m always trying to make sure as many people as possible have smiled and laughed within the icebreaker.

What are learners going to be doing, what is the influence I’m trying to bring across and what is my Influence as a teacher? The activity of fonts and emotions was to bring an understanding of how and why they are used and where they came from.

The idea of the activity is to be able to go though the process of identifying and choosing fonts that would influence a designated theme. For example if you were creating a piece of promotional material for children’s books or an event, the title of the characters that would demonstrate this, is something that looks fun and playful. Compared to if you were to choose something for a horror story. It would be good to emphasise that emotion and feeling.

They were happy to experience this website as a new tool/recourse. Some had not come across this site before. My area of concern was if there were not enough laptops available but as they were paired up, it all worked well.

Note to self: Voice record my live feedback for future reference

Today was a nice session of observation micro teaching.

Perfume analysing, hand crafted cats and t shirts proofing.  With a  valuable lesson of how to problem solve moving an expensive heavy object and the right ways to lift. It probably helped that it was a group that I’ve met before but when you’re in the hot seat all eyes on you.

Today I learnt that there are 3 parts to perfumes and colognes Base, heart and top there is also 4 categories of scents amber, florals and compositions. Also, no two perfumes smell the same

Hand crafter Cat, giving feedback to a child what is the best way? 50% 50%, sandwich feedback marking criteria, self-reflection from the student. Just so you don’t misinterpret what they wanted to achieve you could ask them what were they looking for to produce in a result. A suggestion from a peer be honest, if its crap it just is. But you can do better next time. What do you plan on doing next time. This way it allows them to manage the truth and society in the future they won’t always feel like they are the best as they won’t always will be. Being told no and its nots good enough can work towards making you stronger or aiming higher.

My take away nuggets, Note to self.

I could have brought in some examples of fonts like chocolate bars, magazines and newspapers. I could have explained more about the font styles serif and sans serif.