Questions that marked in my head???

it is week 13 and this course is about to come to an end. I did learn a lot about drama like its history and conventions odf drama and so on. I did the simulated teaching and it really helps me to improve my teaching skills.
However, there is one question that still troubles me: How could i improve my skills of interpreting literary works? Actually, i feel quite difficult to interpret classic works like King Lear. The language used inside really hinders me from understanding and discovering the literary elements like themes and symbols.
maybe i should read more and gain more knowledge in understanding classic English. i think i need advicement and comments from my friends, lecturers and the tutors too.

Blog, Does it help?

Writing blog helps me to reflect back what I have learnt from lectures and tutorials. It reminds me to adopt what I have learnt in my future subjects and teachings. Besides, questions provided by Dr Edwin cause me to think, reflect and finally find a way to solve the problems which I found in improving my knowledge and teaching skills.
Besides that, I learn a lot from my course mates’ blogs. From their sharing, I learn to adopt their good opinions into my teaching. Blog also provides chances for me to share and express my opinions. I can share my experience as well like the experience of heading KLPAC.
In a nutshell, i think that blogging is a very good way of learning language.

Adapt and adopt

In lecture and tutorials, I learned a lot of knowledge and teaching skills. For example, I learn ways to interpret theme, characters, plot and so on. The pattern of exercise for example, highlighting the characteristics of the character through his dialogue helps me to analyse the character. It does help to analyse the treatment of the theme through characters and language. Through the exercise that given by the lecturer, I will adopt his technique of teaching into my real teaching in the future.
Besides, the teaching skills that I learned from my lecturer give me a clearer picture on how to teach more efficiently in my future teaching. I learn to create more useful and appropriate worksheets for my students too. I will adapt the skills in creating execises.

Would I interpret differently?

Before the lessons, I would try to interpret the plays by myself. There might be some different interpretation because I like to think by myself. However, after the lessons I will stick to the lecturer’s interpretation. After Dr Edwin interprets, I understand more about the play. He gives explanation on important things and gives lots assignments for us to do. From the assignments, we learn the ways to interpret things. For instance, assignment 1 which requests us to write about treatment of the theme. It helps me to discover the way to analyze the theme.
As for my tutor, Miss Kastoori, I really like her way of teaching. she tries to attract us to the lessons. She gave us useful exercises which help us in understanding the play.

Useful and not useful…

Actually, all that I learned through the lecture-tutorial are useful to my area of study. I learned the ways to interpret the characters and theme of the play through the lecture-tutorial. I learn to discover how the theme works through elements f literature like characters, language, choice of words, and symbols.
Besides, the study of classic English in Shakespeare helps me to discover more about English literature. The words used in classic English are different from words used in modern English. It is much more difficult to understand. Fortunately, there were notes and explanations in the book. The explanations help me to comprehend the meaning of the text.

The lecture tutorial

I found that it was quite interesting when Miss Kastoori asked us to role-play the play “Bingo” by Edward Bond in groups. All of the members of my group were well involved in the play. We were so enjoyed during the moment of acting. Through role play, we were introduced to drama. I found that drama is actually very interesting. I began to love this course! Besides that, I found that a drama can actually be performed in many ways. The way of performance for a same drama is totally different from other groups. It is unbelievable that every way of performances brings different effects to the audiences! I discover that drama can actually help a person to improve his or her creativity. During drama class, a lot of knowledge like history of drama, soliloquy, tragedy and lots more are exposed to me.

Any questions?

The problem that i face during simulated teaching is that i do not know how to increase my own confidence during simulated teaching. I think i may need to practice more before simulated teaching. Through practice, i can gain my confidence and try to manage the time more effective. Besides, i can train myself to teach in a better manner. The only way that i can find is to practice more. i think i need advice from my coursemate too. Their comments and advices are very important for me to improve myself.