Overcompensation: Needs and The Novice

This week I've focused more on MIC techniques. Watching myself in class and on video and discussing my teacher talk with my peers has yielded the impression that I need to SPEAK MORE SLOWLY and NOT ASSUME too much on the part of my students' comprehension. In a classroom of multiple levels, this is especially important. One of my students complained to a Korean teacher that he couldn't understand me well. So...in light of these issues, I decided to focus more on overt MIC techniques, particularly  gesture and slowing down my speech.

However, after viewing the video, I'm wondering if this is overkill. I've always feared talking down to my students and while watching this I wondered if I've overbalanced myself yet again. While I felt a small sense of pride in my increased attention to detailed gesture , I sound almost robotic sometimes. Will over-enunciation harm my students' own flow and pronunciation?

One overcompensation result of DETAILING my TT is once again increasing TT itself. I neglected getting closer to the 1:1 Teacher-Student sentence ratio. Notice ahen I give instructions, I try comprehension checks but don't allow the students to construct meaning, something they can do in easily predictable assignments.

One thing I hope to learn in future Methodology classes is classroom management. Throughout the class my student, Sky, who interrupts sometimes if he doesn't comprehend clearly but sometimes just to gain attention, tried disrupting us. My response, direct correction, might have an effect; however, I'm looking for more constructive ways to direct his interest back to the lesson. I noticed during the video that during groupwork/pairwork I skipped several opportunities to interact with him and possibly assist his interest in the material. Honestly, I think I was just avoiding the belligerance I'm often met with when I attempt to reach out to him. It pains me if I feel like I can't "reach" someone...

Hopefully part of my future development as a teacher will include much more constructive classroom management.