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.   

3rd Reflection_Micro Teaching

3rd Reflection…

Yeah… I have accustomed joining micro teaching class. The atmosphere around the class has been different from the previous meetings. I assumed that I could not change my perception about micro class. Fortunately, I could change that. Moreover, after seen my friends’ performance practice teaching in two big groups (15 minutes each) I thought that I had to do as what they have done. I got big motivation to teach and do some practice in my house, and hopefully it will work two days later.

I ever had an inspiration, “if you want to be successful, do what you make afraid in your life” and it became my big motivation in teaching. Practice and practice is the small thing that I have to do. Hopefully, it will work to me.

2nd Reflection_Micro Teaching

2nd Reflection…

After several meetings of micro teaching class, I saw some changes happened in the class, especially the atmosphere around the class. I saw that some students have been enjoying joining the class. They felt comfortable when my lecturer, Mr.Prast  explained the materials to his students with his special style like giving a joke in the middle of his explanation. That’s why I decided to join the micro class, because it can be a basic to develop the teaching strategies before I face to the real students in the next semester.

Honestly, joining micro teaching class makes me have feelings such as, afraid to teach in front of the class, speechless, and nervous of course. Meaning to say, I always have the same feeling when joining micro teaching class. However, ready or not, now or never, I have to do this.  I have to practice teaching in front of the class. That’s way self-motivation is important to build self-independent to me.

In the several meetings, I got many advantages in micro teaching class which is very useful to me in order to build motivation in teaching. Learning is a process from not knowing become knowing, and I got some advantages based on the inspiration. I have known how to set induction and set closure in a lesson, how to stimulus students by giving interesting method that can involve the students’ participation, how to attract the students’ attention, so on. All of them are very useful as the basic to start in teaching and learning activity, and I began to enjoy this class.

Happy teaching……

Lesson plan CBLL_Teaching a Procedure Text

Teaching a procedure text

for 1^st grade junior high school

·               A teacher explains to the students what they are going to do and give some explanations about a topic that they are going to discuss.

·               The teacher explains about a procedure text and the generic structure of the text.

·               After that, the teacher introduces the students about blogs.

·               The teacher explains how to use the blog, its function, and the benefits of the blogs.

·               The teacher gives the students example how to use blogs step by step.

·               After the students known how to use the blogs, the teacher gives examples of procedure text in a blog.

·               The teacher asks the students to make a group of three.

·               The teacher asks the students to  make a simple procedure text based on their daily life.

·               The teacher asks the whole class to comment, suggestion, or  correction in their friends’ assignment on the blog

·               After the students done the exercise, discuss together in a whole class.

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.