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.