10th Reflection

Last Tuesday was my teaching practice. I was the second person who did teaching practice at that day. I was very nervous at that time. I was afraid if I could not do my best but finally I could pass it. I think the lesson was successful because the students gave positive responds to my lesson. They answered my questions, did the exercise, and asked some questions. I was happy about that. It means that they understood my material. I think there were a lot of weaknesses of the lesson; the first one was my pronunciation, sometimes I pronounced some words incorrectly and I did not recognize it. The second one was time management. I only had five minutes left but I was still asking my students to present their conversation, my lecturer said it’s quite risky because it’s time to make set closure, I should mind it. The third was that I was speaking too much. I taught about speaking class but unconsciously I was speaking all the time. I should give the chance to my students to speak because it’s speaking class. They should speak as much as possible. The fourth was that I should make sure when I asked my students to make conversation, my students really did the assignment. I think the strengths of the lesson were I could manage the class, I reprimanded the students who did not pay attention to their friends and I involved the students to answer my questions. I think all of the students were active, they involved in the lesson. The lesson was also appropriate; it was not difficult because I just asked them to make a procedure about how to make some simple foods. I gave my best to do my teaching practice; I have prepared the handout and the material (power point) so I think I did a sufficient preparation for the lesson. If I should teach the same material next time, I will try to teach the material in the different way so I can get the different experience and respond as well.

There were Bayu and Riska’s performances last Thursday. As usual, I enjoyed my friends’ performances because I like pretending to be a student of senior High school. I think their performance were good. They gave the best for the performance. I think Bayu was good. He was a calm teacher bit he should mind his pronunciation. Sometimes he pronounced some words incorrectly. I know, it was difficult to recognize the right pronunciation if we were nervous.  Riska was also a good teacher. She really took care about the students, whether the students understood or not about the lesson. However she almost ran out of time so she just gave the simple set closure. I think it is ok but it will be better if she gave a proper set closure not in a hurry.