7th Reflection

Last week I really enjoyed my friends’ performances. At last Tuesday there were Pauline, Detta and Nimas’s performances. Their performances were great. They did their best and I liked it. The most important things that I learned during the class last Tuesday were as a good teacher we should give a clear instruction for our students. Like Pauline did last Tuesday, I think she gave us a clear instruction so we could understand what we had to do at that time. We also should give an interesting material for our students. Nimas taught speaking class and she gave us recount material. I liked her material because she gave picture series to help us to understand the material easier. I think picture series really helped the students to understand the material and it can avoid the students getting bored with the material. Detta’s performance was also great. She taught listening class and the material was recount. She gave us a clear recording although she recorded it by herself but it was clear enough.

Last Thursday there were Beny, John and Dhimas’s performances. Their performances were also good. I think Beny was really calm. I believe later in the future he will be a passionate teacher. I think as a good teacher we also need passion when we are teaching our students. John taught reading class about recount. He was a cheerful teacher. He always smiles and I think it was good. I think his smile gave happiness in our class because his smile gave the students spirit to study better. Dhimas was also a great teacher. He gave the students a very clear explanation about recount text, the generic structure and the language feature inside it. I liked the way he taught us it seemed that he believed us that we can learn well.

I think all the things worked well in the class at that time.      

6th reflection

Last week my class did lottery who should did teaching class first. I was very nervous. I was afraid. I did not want to get the first. Luckily I would be the 20^th teacher who would teach in front of the class. At least I could prepare the material well. After that my lecturer gave us material about how to make a good lesson plan. Actually we had already taught about how to make lesson plan in the previous semester but my class were still confused.

From my lecturer, I got some important things that the component of lesson plan at least there are tujuan pembelajaran, materi ajar, metode pelajaran, sumber belajar and penilaian hasil belajar.  I also understood that indikator is same with tujuan pembelajaran but tujuan pembelajaran is more specific than indikator.  After that, my lecturer asked us to make a lesson plan for our teaching class later. We could consult and revise our lesson plan if we suddenly find new idea. I think if we want to be a good teacher, we should learn how to make a good lesson plan so we can give an appropriate material for our students.

Next, my lecturer also gave material about classroom management. I learned that if we want to be an effective teacher, we should have positive expectations for student success. We should trust our student that they will learn well. We also give them support to be better student and to achieve a better mark. An effective teacher also should be an extremely good classroom manager. The teacher should have well-ordered environment and positive academic expectation. A good teacher should organize students, space, time and materials so the students can study well. I also learned that being good teacher should have a discipline plan and assignments posted. Teacher also should start class immediately so it does not waste the time. Besides that teacher should know how to bring class to attention and know how to praise the deed and encourage the student. I hope I can follow that suggestion and I hope I can learn much from the material.

5th reflection

Last week I enjoyed my friends’ performance. There were some volunteers that came in front of the class practicing teaching. Their performances were recorded by my lecturer. The volunteers were Anggi and Tia. Anggi taught speaking class about describing people. She gave a very good set induction. She brought a big picture and we as the students should try to describe the picture. The picture was a boy who was handsome and young. I think it was good because she provided the picture that was interesting for young learner so the student would be interested to follow the lesson. Anggi also had a loud voice, her instruction was also clear but I think she should manage her time allocation. Because she was teaching speaking class, it should be better if she gave much more time to her student to speak.

Another volunteer was Tia. She also taught speaking class. Her performance was also good. However she forgot to bring set induction. She also forgot to bring the pattern of her material. I liked her performance because she always smiled and looked happy although I could see if she felt little bit nervous.  I also liked her material because the material is very interesting and did not make the students felt bored. I think both of my friends did her best and I appreciated them because they were brave to come in front of the class and practice teaching.