1st Reflection_Micro Teaching

Firstly, my first impression about Micro Teaching class is a frighten course, because as I know in this course I will begin to teach in front of a class and PBI’s junior students. It makes me a little bit afraid when I join to the class, because this is the first experience to teach in English in front of the class. Nervous, afraid, and speechless always exist in my heart when I will join the class. I thought that every meeting the students are asked to come in front to teach directly without any explanation first from my lecturer, Mr. Prast.

First meeting was over, and my impressions about Micro Teaching course were wrong. In fact, the students were given explanation from my lecturer such as how to open and close a lesson (set induction and set closure), how to stimulus students in a lesson, teacher movements, teacher gestures, etc. From my lecturer’s explanation I got some important things that I had never known before. For example, if I got a question from a student and I did not know the answer, and then what should I do to answer the question? In fact there are some tricks to answer it, and it will very helpful if I had a situation above.  My lecturer also explain about how to get the students’ attention; how to handle the class, etc. Those explanations were given until meeting four, and it was very useful for me. I could know and understand what I should do if I had a situation in a class.

I realized that those tricks and the things that a teacher should do in a class were not easy, because nervous and speechless might exist when began to teach. Therefore, in Micro Teaching class there are teaching practices to develop and practice how to teach and face some students in front of the class before face the real students in a real school in the next semester. Yet, based on my experience when I was in senior high school there were some teacher who teach monotonously, for example the teacher only explain and explain without pay attention whether the students pay attention to the lesson or not, and sometimes the students felt bored with the teacher and the lesson. This situation should be avoided to a teacher, because as a teacher deliver a lesson to the students is important, but the most important thing is the teacher should care to the students, in this context the teacher can read the situation in a class and see the students whether they understand or not. Therefore, after the teacher finish give the explanation the teacher should give a question to the students, for example “Is it understood? Is there any questions?” It is to make sure that the students pay attention to the lesson or to measure the students’ understanding. As a result in a class there is an interaction between teacher and students.