Last week, the weather was worst, the wind was blowing so hard, thunder and lightning was always coma and go. Two of our friends who have to teach the week before have to teach on the week after.
This week was Galih’s, Eyik’s, and Luci’s turned.
Honestly, Galih’s listening materials was good and challenging but maybe it would be better if she give this listening material to the third grade of Senior High School students. In my opinion, the level of difficulty was not matching with the students of the first grade. Her listening passage was also very long. Maybe it would be better if her listening passage was only three or three and a half minutes because she also have to pay attention of the time management.
She also miss pronouncing some words and speechless in some moment.
On the other hand, Eyik do her job well but in my opinion, she gave the material too much. Maybe it would be better if she asked her students to analyze the first hand out and relate it to the materials. She did not give her students time to read it and it was hard to follow her at the first time.
It went too fast I think.
On the second material she did it better.
She gave the students some time to read the reading passage. In addition, one thing that I like from the way she taught is she did not give the meaning of the difficult words directly but she asked her students to guess the meaning.
Guessing the meaning from the context of the sentence was also one of a good ways. The teacher can list some difficult words and also prepare some words, then the students have to match the meaning from the reading passage.
This way is good to build the student’s way of thinking
I like Luci’s way to teach.
She gave a small quiz on the speaking class. She asked her students to have a conversation with his or her partner—asking and answering the questions—and they have to write the answer on the answer sheet.
These are nice and I will adopt some of their way to teach in my teaching practice 2 weeks later.
Selasa, 23 Maret 2010
The first Progress Test has come!
This week, class teaching for the first progress test was started and it was Wendy’s, Nidya’s and Nia’s turned. Actually, it should be six students that were teaching in front of the class but Ebo was not come, and the weather was getting worse. Actually, it did not matter because class could be as usual.
From Wendy’s and Nidya’s performance I could “catch” some important things.
Wendy’ had performed very well and his listening material was very interesting and it was not really difficult if it is given to the first grade of Senior High School students.
It will be good if we later becoming a teacher, we should give interesting materials—of course that is related to the material—in order to our students will not fell bored.
However, I also found some important things on the way he taught. He always tells directly to the students about the material. For example, he directly tells the students the meaning of recount text and the generic structure.
On the other hand, his set induction was very good.
I like his way to ask the students of their past experienced that was interesting in their life and relate it to the materials.
He is so confident. The way he taught was a little bit plain. However, it was better than his previous class teaching practice.
For Nidya, she also performed well.
Her set induction and set closure was nice. She gave the summary of the material in the end of the class. I think it is better that we give directly of the materials to our students.
Her way to ask the students to be cooperative was also nice. She could make the students followed her instructions.
She was mastering the materials, she could answer the students’ questions, and her explanation was very clear.
Maybe I can “cheat” Nidya’s way to teach by not giving directly of the materials, analyze the reading passage, and relate it to the materials, etc.
In the mean time, Nia’s performance was not really good. She looked very nervous and many of her students were have bad behaviour, so she felt difficult to handle them.
I have to pay attention too to this problem.
The one who should control the class is the teacher not the students. If students who are controlling the class, it means that, we are not a success teacher.
From Wendy’s and Nidya’s performance I could “catch” some important things.
Wendy’ had performed very well and his listening material was very interesting and it was not really difficult if it is given to the first grade of Senior High School students.
It will be good if we later becoming a teacher, we should give interesting materials—of course that is related to the material—in order to our students will not fell bored.
However, I also found some important things on the way he taught. He always tells directly to the students about the material. For example, he directly tells the students the meaning of recount text and the generic structure.
On the other hand, his set induction was very good.
I like his way to ask the students of their past experienced that was interesting in their life and relate it to the materials.
He is so confident. The way he taught was a little bit plain. However, it was better than his previous class teaching practice.
For Nidya, she also performed well.
Her set induction and set closure was nice. She gave the summary of the material in the end of the class. I think it is better that we give directly of the materials to our students.
Her way to ask the students to be cooperative was also nice. She could make the students followed her instructions.
She was mastering the materials, she could answer the students’ questions, and her explanation was very clear.
Maybe I can “cheat” Nidya’s way to teach by not giving directly of the materials, analyze the reading passage, and relate it to the materials, etc.
In the mean time, Nia’s performance was not really good. She looked very nervous and many of her students were have bad behaviour, so she felt difficult to handle them.
I have to pay attention too to this problem.
The one who should control the class is the teacher not the students. If students who are controlling the class, it means that, we are not a success teacher.
Rabu, 10 Maret 2010
It’s getting interesting….
Week by week microteaching is getting harder and harder and it’s also getting interesting for me. However, I have to keep on “struggling and fighting” in this subject. My friends who did their class teaching practice was good and I believe that they will be better in their class teaching.
Actually, I had prepared my material for the class teaching practice. It’s about news items in a form of listening. I planned to teach the first grade of senior high school and I had prepared all that I wanted.
I had asked Dwi whether he would be the first volunteer for the first teacher or not because I want to be the second teacher. However, before the class my friend told me that if I would teach listening I have to bring my own laptop and speaker(s). In fact, I did not bring all of the media that was needed because the computer in the laboratory was still broken because of the thunder. I just hoped that I could use the computer in the microteaching laboratory.
I had designed a different way to teach me students by added a song which is quite related to the material to make them feel comfortable in my class.
Actually, it was only one teacher on that day and I felt doubt to say “Yes, Sir. I want to be the volunteer for the class teaching practice”.
But I was afraid. I was afraid that I would not have the change.
Yes it was true. I had not changed to be the teacher.
Phe was the only volunteer at that time. She taught very well. She taught reading but she looked like teaching pronunciation because when she asked the students to read the reading passage aloud, she always stopped to correct the students’ pronunciation.
Mr. Prast said that it would be better if she let her students read all of the passage until they finished it. Then, she could give corrections for her students’ pronunciation. On the other hand, she could also write the words that were pronounced incorrect in the whiteboard. After that, she could ask the students to pronounce the words together.
I hope these comment could be useful for my class teaching.
Actually, I had prepared my material for the class teaching practice. It’s about news items in a form of listening. I planned to teach the first grade of senior high school and I had prepared all that I wanted.
I had asked Dwi whether he would be the first volunteer for the first teacher or not because I want to be the second teacher. However, before the class my friend told me that if I would teach listening I have to bring my own laptop and speaker(s). In fact, I did not bring all of the media that was needed because the computer in the laboratory was still broken because of the thunder. I just hoped that I could use the computer in the microteaching laboratory.
I had designed a different way to teach me students by added a song which is quite related to the material to make them feel comfortable in my class.
Actually, it was only one teacher on that day and I felt doubt to say “Yes, Sir. I want to be the volunteer for the class teaching practice”.
But I was afraid. I was afraid that I would not have the change.
Yes it was true. I had not changed to be the teacher.
Phe was the only volunteer at that time. She taught very well. She taught reading but she looked like teaching pronunciation because when she asked the students to read the reading passage aloud, she always stopped to correct the students’ pronunciation.
Mr. Prast said that it would be better if she let her students read all of the passage until they finished it. Then, she could give corrections for her students’ pronunciation. On the other hand, she could also write the words that were pronounced incorrect in the whiteboard. After that, she could ask the students to pronounce the words together.
I hope these comment could be useful for my class teaching.
Selasa, 02 Maret 2010
Then, go to the next step…
7th and 8th meeting were interesting meeting for me. I could get some inputs from my friends who were doing their class teaching.
Yes, the next step is class teaching after struggled in group teaching.
It makes my heart beating so fast and also challenges me.
Many questions come into my mind; can I do the class teaching better than the previous teacher can, or will I do the same mistakes as the previous teaching practice, etc.
I know it’s hard to use English every time in front of the class because I know that my students (friends) have a high sense of humour, especially in Javanese. Sometimes it’s not funny if we commented their jokes in English.
I don’t know, maybe it doesn’t right.
As a teacher we have to use all of the media as maximum as possible because how little it is, it can help them on the process of teaching and learning. On the other hand, it can also help our students to absorb our explanation by writing it on the black/whiteboard for example.
The other thing we have to give attention to all of the students, not only the smartest student or the laziest or maybe the naughtiest student in the class. Because if we just only focus on some students, the other students will feel that their teacher have denied them. It can make them feel bored. It’s not easy, right!
It needs some effort and blood.
To get the students’ attention is not easy too.
Maybe we need to make some activities, which can build their spirit to study.
But it also depend on the situation and the students itself.
The other thing that we must give attention on it is interaction between students and teacher. It’s time to switch the focus of class.
Teacher focus is old-fashioned.
Students focus is fresh and better. Students need to explore their self because who want to study at school are them (even thought teacher is still also need to learn a lot, but students must have much more portion than teacher must).
Yes, the next step is class teaching after struggled in group teaching.
It makes my heart beating so fast and also challenges me.
Many questions come into my mind; can I do the class teaching better than the previous teacher can, or will I do the same mistakes as the previous teaching practice, etc.
I know it’s hard to use English every time in front of the class because I know that my students (friends) have a high sense of humour, especially in Javanese. Sometimes it’s not funny if we commented their jokes in English.
I don’t know, maybe it doesn’t right.
As a teacher we have to use all of the media as maximum as possible because how little it is, it can help them on the process of teaching and learning. On the other hand, it can also help our students to absorb our explanation by writing it on the black/whiteboard for example.
The other thing we have to give attention to all of the students, not only the smartest student or the laziest or maybe the naughtiest student in the class. Because if we just only focus on some students, the other students will feel that their teacher have denied them. It can make them feel bored. It’s not easy, right!
It needs some effort and blood.
To get the students’ attention is not easy too.
Maybe we need to make some activities, which can build their spirit to study.
But it also depend on the situation and the students itself.
The other thing that we must give attention on it is interaction between students and teacher. It’s time to switch the focus of class.
Teacher focus is old-fashioned.
Students focus is fresh and better. Students need to explore their self because who want to study at school are them (even thought teacher is still also need to learn a lot, but students must have much more portion than teacher must).
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