Every time a teacher wrote something on the black / white board, displaying film or asking the students to read, answer the questions or doing an experiment, actually he /she is guiding the students to gain information, master the skills and construct self value. In order to do that, teacher, choose certain teaching methods that suitable with the teaching objectives or contents, or else, the teacher's style himself. But this is easier for the experienced teacher. What about novice teacher? or me who even complete the study yet?

Therefore, in the first semester, we (DPLI students) had been taught about Teaching Methods by Prof Madya Rashidi Azizan and Dr Arba'at. And for the last three weeks prior to the examination, each of Biology students had been teaching in front of the lecturers. Although we teach just in front of our coursemates, the tension still greater as if we were teaching the real secondary school students.

I had identified few problems during my microteaching session. As example in the topic Gas Exchange in Respiratory System;

Learning Process:
1. It is difficult to make students understand the concept of partial pressure
2. Students failed to grab the concept, where the partial pressure is the heart of gases exchange mechanisms
3. Students should know the pressure of different gases

Teaching Process:
1. Teacher assumed that students already familiar with respiratory system, because they had learnt about the topic earlier
2. the way of teaching is less interesting and failed to grab all students attention
3. No variation in teaching aids (eg. no video)

To improve this problem, few strategies had been set up:

1. Teacher needs to revise previous topic that related to the current topic
2. Teacher must masters the topic by not relying heavily on the textbook but read more for deeper understanding
3. Teacher needs to think critically and creatively in building highly effective teaching aids
eg. video sometimes cannot help / irrelevant because of:
i. complexity
ii. pace of the video
iii. the display quality
iv. the accent of the narrator

Prepared in group by:
Rosmiza bt Rioh
Rumaizah bt Muhamad
Hafizah bt Mohamed