Reflection on Practice Teaching 1_round 4

Round four have held in practice teaching 1. As usual in one round there are three teachers who taught in front of class. They were Delis, Tia, and Siwi. They presented their own materials according to the schedule. For this week the teachers delivered the materials about showing or expressing sympathy and narrative. Delis and Tia talked about showing sympathy, and Siwi talked about narrative. From the three teachers I got some importance things, such as using video to show a story about “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” In this listening practice the teacher used video to catch students’ attention. Usually, in listening practice a teacher only uses recording, and the students only get information from the recording. Yet, in Siwi’s performance she tried to make something different and interesting to the students in order to catch the students’ attention. Therefore, the students did not only get the information from the recording but also from picture in the video that was used by Siwi.

This week’s performances more developed from previous performances. I think it because of the three teachers observed from previous teachers, and it was really inspired to next performances. I saw that it worked on the three teachers who have taught in this week. I think that they have given interesting materials to their students, so that I as one of the students enjoyed the lesson which was given by the teachers.

Yet, in 30’ minutes teaching and learning activities I found unclear instruction in a worksheet so that I confused what I should do with the exercise. Therefore, I had to ask to my friends what should I do in the exercise. I think it wasted the students’ time to do the exercise.  

Reflection on Practice Teaching 1_round 2 & 3

Round two and three’s Practice Teaching 1 have performed in front of class. Round two we had Pauline, Detta, and Nimas while round three we had Beni, John, and Dimas. In round two the three teachers taught writing invitation, listening and speaking recount. The most important things that I got were connected the previous lesson by asking the students about what they have learned, used media like power point to deliver the lesson, gave examples to the students so that the students knew the differences between formal and informal letter, for example. It also happened in round three. I got how to stimulus the students, the teacher should know the students’ condition whether they were tired or bored in joining the lesson. The teacher should give something interest to catch the students’ attention, and it worked in John’s performance even though the students felt strange with John’s strategy. Yet, I thought it necessary needed to refresh the students’ mind.

From round two and three all of the teachers gave many inspirations to me. For example, the materials which are given by the teachers were understandable to students by giving pictures. It motivated the students to follow the lesson well.  

Sometimes I found difficulties in understanding some instructions in some exercises, what I should do with exercises, and it made confusing to the students. Moreover, I had a lot of difficulties in John’s performance. He got materials about reading recount, but unfortunately, he taught writing recount by asking the students to write about recount text based on the topics were given by the teacher. It also made me confusing. 

Reflection on Practice Teaching 1_round 1

Practice Teaching 1 was begun in this session. In the first round, we had three teachers who have taught in 30’ minutes each. They were Carolina, Fafa, and Gilang. All of them had materials about accepting invitation, and formal and informal letter. From those performances I could see that all of them have prepared well to do their best since it was the first progress test. I knew that managed the 30’ minutes in the class was difficult thing and tried to communicate and interact with students was the main purpose in teaching. I could see from the performances, the three teachers have done it. They tried to catch the students’ attention by giving interest materials, and this is what I got. I could learn many things from my friends’ performances, such as organizing a game to lead materials, using picture to involve the students’ participation in the class, discussing the students’ answers in a whole class to assess the students’ understanding, and so on.

Actually, when my friends taught in front of class I could understand and follow the lesson easily. Because I thought that they used media to deliver the materials so that the other students could understand easily. Moreover, they used simple language to communicate with the students so that I as the students could understand the lesson. The three teachers also approached the students when the students did exercises. The teachers asked whether the students had difficulties or not. It helped me to do the exercises, and if I had difficulties I could ask directly to the teachers. It worked.

Sometimes I found difficulties in understanding listening practice, the speed of the conversation was too fast for grade X. I thought that it faster than Standardized Test course even though the conversation was easy, but if the speed was too fast the students would not catch the expected answers. I also found difficult vocabulary attached in handout when talked about formal and informal letter. I thought for grade X it was difficult vocabulary to understand. Overall all of the performances inspired me to do the best to for my practice teaching later on.