atch movies as much as people here do. And the movies there are also subtitled, so before I came up with a topic I new I needed a hook so I decided I would use a movie to hook them in. I do not want to go into much detail about what I taught as you can see I have that stapled to the back of the pages. To end off my critiquing on planning a lesson I feel that I did a great job on figuring out what I was going to do. Your classes took me from point A to point B, and that is one step in the process to teaching that is needed. Where I lack in my teaching abilities the most is speaking. I feel this is probably hard for a lot of people, and is something that takes time to learn. I noticed my speaking ability was lacking about a year before I taught these kids. For some reason I feel that this time I learned a lot about teaching and after teaching this youth group something helped me understand that I needed to work on a lot of stuff, and this was the first time I had ever felt this besides the previous year. When teaching foreigners you always need to have an interpreter, even if they know a little bit of your language. Well, on this day I feel that my eyes where opened to what I needed to see. What I needed to see was the way I was talking. I noticed that I was particularly slow in the way I did this. The thing that brought this to my attention was during interpretation, I had to think of what I was going to say next. Its like I would start off talking and I would stop and pause to wait for the teacher to interpret what I said. You might be thinking well that is quite normal, but the way I was approaching was not. It was that I had no rhythm. I noticed that I was not completing my sentences and thoughts before I would pause. This took a lot away from my effectiveness to teach these kids, and I have noticed it can also take away emotion as well. This brought to my attention, if I want to be a good teacher than I need to involve rhythm in my l...
