13th Reflection

Last Tuesday there were Siwi and Riska’s performances. Their performances were great. Actually there were three performances that day but unfortunately mas Rahmat did not come so there were just two performances. The first performance was Siwi. Siwi taught speaking class about how to make a list of the job. I like Siwi materials. It was really fresh and up to date. The material is about royal wedding celebration. We as students were pretending as a chef of royal wedding reception. We should make a list our job that we have to do. Like preparing the vegetables, cooking, preparing the tables, etc. I think it was very interesting. From that case, I can see that we should give an interesting material to our students so they will not get bored and will pay attention to our material. Besides that, our material should be fresh and up to date so the students can be more enthusiastic with our material. After that, there was Riska’s performance. She taught reading class about simple instructions. Riska’s material was also good. She gave the students motivation to answer her questions by giving them chocolate. It was very interesting. I am very happy if I become Riska’s student because I will try to answer her question to get the chocolate. From that case, I can learn that we should motivate our students to respond our material for example by giving gift or praise. It was really inspiring.   

Last Thursday was my final microteaching. There were Sely and Yosi’s performances so I was the last person who did teaching practice at that day. I was very afraid and nervous at that time. I was afraid if I could not do my best but finally I could pass it. It was final test so I became very nervous to do this teaching. I think the lesson was successful because the students gave positive responds to my material. I taught listening class about asking and giving things for students in Junior High School. Actually, I found many difficulties in finding and preparing the material. I realized that finding listening material is difficult so I decided to make my own material by recording the material by myself. I was not confident enough to record my self especially my voice. I realized that I do not have beautiful voice and my pronunciation is so-so. However, I don’t have many choices, so I made my material by my self. At that time, I thought that I should make an interesting material because my students were still in Junior High School, so I added some short sounds in the beginning, middle and end of the conversation. I hope mu students will like it.

 I think there were a lot of weaknesses of my teaching; the first one was my pronunciation, sometimes I pronounced some words incorrectly and I did not recognize it. The second one was management class. I realized that my students were very noisy but when I reprimanded them, they still talking with their friends. However I tried to do my best, to reprimand them. The third was that I do not like my gesture, the way I standup, walking, etc. After watching my video recording, I could see that my gesture was not good, I look like “mbungkuk” and I moved my foot many time.

 I think the strengths of my teaching was that my students like my material especially my sound effect in the beginning conversation because when they heard the sound, many students danced and moved their head, body or hand. I do not know whether the sounds distract the lesson or not. However, in my opinion I gave the sound effect because I want to make it more interesting so the students will not get bored with my conversation. Besides that, by giving sounds effect I hope I can have student’s attention to listen the conversation and answer the questions. I think all of the students were active, they involved in the lesson. I gave my best to do my teaching practice; I have prepared the handout and the material (recording) 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.