Peer Teaching Review (Indiviual)

Peer Teaching Review: Good/Bad News Messages, Email 

This blog post is about my individual reflections based on my group's peer teaching topic: The 7CS of effective communication and how to write and deliver good/bad news messages via letters or an email. Honestly, I was really very worried and scared of the presentation as it been nearly half a semester since I last had a official presentation. But I am really glad that along with my group mates William and Amy we managed to pull off our presentation really well. As a team we were able to cooperate with one another well which enabled us to work effectively as a team.Thank you, William and Amy for being such awesome team mates that I enjoy working together with! And not forgetting to thank my classmates for being active participants whom provided us with constant feedback during our presentation and activity time.

While preparing for this peer teaching presentation, I challenged myself not to write any form of speeches for me to memorize. Instead, I ensured I was familiar with my entire group's slide and particularly my content that I had to cover during the presentation. Although, I was nervous in the beginning of my presentation I tried to maintain eye contact with my classmates that somehow chase away my anxiety and fear. The more I maintain eye contact and using my hands to emphasize important points, the more comfortable I felt. This peer teaching, provided me with a good platform to practice on my presentation skills as well as being able to speak confidently and comfortably to an audience whom I had no prior experience presenting with.

The feedback provided by my classmates, gave me an overall view on how effective my group was able to deliver our intended content to our audience. This included feedback in areas such as presentation slide, oral presentation skills and our prepared handouts as well as our ability to conduct activity without any major hiccups. I believe we did a good job after collecting responses from our classmates as well as from our own personal sense of satisfaction.

In a conclusion, this peer teaching gave me the opportunity to understand how important knowing your content well can allow you to be more confident during presentation. It showed me that maintaining constant eye contact is an important aspect for effective communication. Finally, I also gain insights to learning how to deliver good/bad news messages using the 7Cs of communication.

Hope everyone enjoyed our peer teaching and gain useful insights to writing a good/bad news message. If you wish to read about our group's reflections, please click here. If you have any questions, feel free to approach any one of us!

Regards
Farhanah