4th Reflection

Last week I enjoyed my friends’ performances. Gilang and Siwi did their teaching for the first time. Luckily, their performances were recorded by Pak Prast. I really enjoyed their performances because I pretended as a Senior High School’s student. I think their performances were great. They did the best for the performance. Gilang taught about procedure text. At the first time, we as students felt confused with some vocabularies, like puncture, rub and pump.  However, Gilang could overcome it; he gave us some clues so we could understand what he meant. From that, I could learn that we should give some clues for our students. If they find some difficulties, do not give the meaning directly, let they guest the meaning by themselves. After that Gilang gave the material. He asked us to complete the procedure about how to bend a puncture. I think the material was too difficult for the students in the first grade in Senior High School. However, Gilang gave very clear instructions for us. His voice was very clear so the whole class could hear his voice clearly.

 I think as a good teacher, later we should mind about how to manage that time. We should prepare the opening, the main activity and the set closure. I think that three things should be given appropriately to the students so the students can master the material well. Besides that, we should consider about the interaction. A good interaction should happen not between teacher-students but students- teacher so there is a balance interaction. Gilang and Siwi’s performances were recorded so after their performances, we watched the video from the viewer. From that video, we could see Gilang and Siwi’s activity which they did unconsciously, like holding the paper to several time, nodding for several time etc.

Third Reflection

Last week I did my teaching group. I was very nervous at that time. I should teach one group consist of 12 students and the students are my classmate. I taught reading material about narrative text. Actually I did not feel very well at that time. I got cough and influenza for almost one week. I was afraid if my voice cannot be heard loud enough by my friends and unfortunately it really happened. When I taught my friends in front of the class, my voice was sunk by Anggi’s voice. Anggi was my teaching partner.  She also did teaching group like me but in another group. She taught speaking class so of course her class was very noisy. Unfortunately I taught reading class so my class was very calm. I tried to make a good interaction with my students but my voice could not help me. I received a lot of comments from my lecturer and it really helped to improve my teaching ability. I should give more spirit while I am teaching so my students can be more enthusiastic. Next, I also should be more communicative with my students so my students can get the lesson well.  Besides that, I should give set closure which is appropriately. Last week I forgot to give set closure, I did not give conclusion or summary to my students. I have to give summary or conclusion so my students can recall what they have learned during the lesson.

I really want to be a good teacher for my students later so I can help them study English well. I think I have a lot of weaknesses. One of my weaknesses is I cannot speak fluently. I always try to learn how to speak fluently but I do not know why I am still nervous while I am talking. I really want to improve my speaking ability.  I hope I can learn more and more how to speak fluently by joining this micro teaching class. Honestly, I enjoy joining micro teaching class because I have to pretend as a students and I enjoy that. Thank you… ;D 

Second Reflection

I join micro teaching class because  that course is obligatory and i have to join that class. Honestly, I enjoy joining micro teaching class because I got a lot of knowledge about how to teach in front of the class. However, I am still  nervous when I join the class until now. I try to love this class by practicing teaching time by time in front of the mirror but I am still not confident with myself. I will try to give my best in micro teaching class. Actually,  I like this class because sometimes I should pretend to be a nice or a naughty student. I want this class because if I do not take this class this semester, it means that I cannot take PPL in the next semester. The positive things that i might gain from this class are 1. I will get a lot of knowledge about how to teach  my student well. 2. I will know how become a good teacher. 3. I will perform in front of the class and it will help me to practice how to teach well. I think there is no negative things that i might gain from this class. I hope, by joining this class I will find my sense to be a good teacher..hehehehe...

First Reflection

I did my first micro teaching class 2 weeks ago. I was very nervous. I was also afraid if I could not do my best in that class. Last week was the first time I entered the micro teaching's laboratory and that place is so wonderful. There are a lot of sophisticated things that will help us later when we are doing our micro teaching class. However I was still afraid although there are a lot of sophisticated things there because deep in my heart I was not ready to teach other people. But I will try to work hard so I can do my best.

The important thing I learned doing the course was I learned about how to open and close the class correctly. I learned that we have to give a good impression to our students when we are opening the class. Besides that, we have to give a support to encourage our student so they can study well. I have achieved how to make a good greeting when we are opening and closing the class. I learned that in the end of the class, we have to give a little time to give conclusion to our students so they can memorize what we have learned before. I think all the things were worked well in the classroom last week. I learned how to teach personally. It was like private course and i loved it.

After that, I learned about Teacher movement, teacher gesture, teacher voice, teacher silence, interaction style, eye contact and focusing contact. All that things gave me a lot of knowledge about how to teach well. I hope, I can practice it in my class later. My friends, Sely and Carol did her first teaching. They thought us about describing things. I enjoyed their performance because I was pretending as a student. I think, at that time…all the things worked well.

  I have a question and I hope my friends or my lecturer can help me to answer the question. The question is should we give a conclusion every time in the end of the class?