Mind Map and Micro Teaching

I would like to begin with a quote that says: “be prepared for the unexpected.” With this I refer to everything we planned and went wrong at the end. We had planned our mind map to be one of the better ones, but we couldn’t make it work. The day came, but I was prepared with the material since I thought I knew it. I was the last one to explain the topic and the first one to perform the micro teaching. I began explaining the topic and didn’t forget what I had to say. I know that when I’m teaching or presenting, I do not smile too much. This time was not the exception. After explaining the topic, I told the class we were going to move on to the micro teaching. I prepared an activity which was called “built the pattern.” The activity was aimed to introduce the pattern or structures of the conditionals. I told my students that the zero conditional was going to be conditional 1, so conditional 1 was going to be conditional number 2, and so on, but they didn’t pay too much attention to that since the common way goes from zero conditional, conditional 1, conditional 2, and conditional 3. Students couldn’t perform the task as expected because I chose a different order for the conditionals. Additionally, I committed a mistake when grouping the students since I couldn’t do the math to divide the groups equally. After the activity, since I didn’t have time because the activity took too much time, I ended my performance. I had prepared another activity, but I couldn’t perform it. At the end, it was time for feedback. I was told that I didn’t smile too much and that I was looking to the floor and didn’t maintain eye contact. Moreover, I was told that I stayed in the same place and didn’t move too much to catch students’ attention. My strengths were that I have good language manage and that I knew the topic. I really agree with the things I was told since I think the judges were objective. Once, some friends told me that I tend to do all the things previous mentioned, so I was aware of that. Unfortunately, I couldn’t avoid doing that. My plan to better that is: I am going to talk in front of friends to practice my smile while explaining something; for example, I can form a study group to have mini presentations so that I get use to smile while explaining or presenting. In that way, I will cover and overcome my challenges since I will have to maintain eye contact with the audience- my friends.