Microteaching week 15 - High fibre Foods

I wonder where I should start. The path to this micro-teaching that I trod is so new and foreign that one cannot determine where it had started and end.
Being a total newbie in F& N teaching has its various pitfalls and disadvantages. The first is the lack of experience in handling a practical class, and the other the general dos and don'ts.
I can say that this practical session was much tougher compared to when I was conducting Biology practical during my contract teaching.

I was handicapped in experience, knowledge and practical skills. All of which were fundamental in pathing the way for a good practical lesson. The amount of times I repeated the recipe to ensure that I am proficient in baking and decorating sponge cake and the effort spent on researching cake decor was mind boggling. Even so, my preparation was still sticks and bones, barely making a fragile framework for me to work on.
Thankfully, my group mates were very helpful and cooperative. The rough patches of my journey towards micro-teaching were considerably smoothened from their help and opinion.
They were also very sympathetic and gracious to my timetable which often clashed with theirs.

All-in-all I am very grateful to Zul, Amanda and Hana for their support and encouragement during this period of time. Though there were occasional miscommunication due to my ignorance of the subject, they were very tolerant and took time and effort to help me produce a decent micro-teaching product. I sincerely think that without their help, my micro-teaching would not have gone as smoothly and I would have "crashed-and-burned".

I am also very grateful to my Home Economics lecturers for giving me their comments and support during this preparation time. To say that I was clueless is an understatement. They were so concerned for me that I kept getting prodded to do more and more. However, I ended up gaining 5 kg from all the experiments. Thankfully, the knowledge I gained weighted more. Now I need to de-tox.

Amelia and Shu En also gave their assistance by discussing with me what exactly I was putting into my micro-teaching, they also had some tips that they gained from their own micro-teaching that they shared with me, which helped to supplement my thoughts.

This micro-teaching has many learning points. Which I think further reflection and action must be done on my part to ensure that the mistakes that I made will not be repeated.

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