Final Reflection

It was more or less six months.
It was tiring, fun, hard, and it was so meaningful for my life, especially for my future.
Because, as a teacher I had to learn more and more in order to I could be a good teacher and would give the best for my students.

This semester was not an easy semester. I took microteaching and play performance.
However, play had taken much time and it was a little hard to manage the time.
The weekly reflection was stop and it was like a hard thing to keep on writing the weekly reflection. (Sorry Sir T_T)
But, I always tried hard to make everything balance.

The first time I came to the micro teaching class E was strange and I thought I could not make it.
I felt shy and I always thought that teaching was like a nightmare because I had to speak and teach other people.

I thought it was the hardest thing to do.
Yes. I thought teaching was difficult.
Teaching was needed high responsible because we had to transfer our knowledge to our students and it was not an easy thing to do.
We needed patience, passion, and we also had to work hard, very hard.

The first teaching practice was in pair, it seemed easy, and fun because I taught my close friend and it just liked when I had conversation with her.
However, it was also difficult because I had to spend more energy to speak louder and louder. Sometimes my student did not hear my voice clearly, because there were ten teachers who were teaching.
It was so crowded and I had to do something to make my students paid attention for me.

After taught in pair, I had to teach while my friend was teaching too.
It was also a difficult thing to do.
In addition, my friend’s voice was louder than me and my students were looked very lazy and sleepy.
I felt so desperate.
I did not know what to do and I really want to cry.
All of them were talking by themselves and some of them were looking at the other teacher.
It was really hard to get the student’s attention.
And they were students who sit in the front row who paid attention to me.
It broke my heart.

But, it was not the real world because I will experience it in PPL II.
I hope I can be better than PPL I.

Progress Test I was the first chance for me to make up my mistakes in my previous teaching practices.
I prepared everything well for the lesson plan and the handout.
But…
It was not easy and I did some mistakes by asked my students to read a passage one sentence for one students.
It was wasting time and I thought it was meaningless.
“What for?” I asked that question for myself.
My voice was not loud enough and my students were so sleepy and lazy.
And I failed to make them “wake up”.

Second progress test was fun.
I taught pronunciation II.
I came to Pak Gunawan’s class twice to have a class observation.
The students were very nice and they really helped us who taught them.
However, Pak Gun was very kind and patience.
Pak Gun was helping me and my friends, and he was lead us to prepare the materials before we taught the students.
Pak Gun was also gave some advices to me after teaching.
And I was very lucky because of that.

On the Final Test, I tried my best to do the best thing I could do.
This time, I prepared picture media to “lead” my students to the materials, which I would give to them.
They were very like my picture and fortunately, I could get their attention and they looked in spirit.
But, on the last task, I was too long and I just had few times to do set closure, which did not proper.
On the other hand, I made mistakes on the handout and I was giving my students lack of reading strategy to read the text effectively.

If I can say what score, which should I get, I will say “B” or more or less 80-81.
Because I think, I had prepared my lesson plans and my materials quite good and well prepared.
Meanwhile, I also use picture media for my second progress test and final test, which can help me to teach and attract the students’ attention.
Nevertheless, I always do some progress such as in the volume, or using picture for the media.

I hope we have the same opinion Sir and thank you for helping me for more or less six months.
Thank you for being patience and for leading and guiding us, in order we can be a good teacher in the future.
GBU.

Final Test…

Being the last teacher was not an easy job because most of the students were tired to follow the lesson and so do the teacher.
We have to be more enthusiastic and keep on spirit in order we can transfer it to the students.

From my last experience that my students were look sleepy and lazy so that I had to do something to get their attention and attract them.
I decided to use picture in my final test.
Fortunately, my students were attracted to the lesson and they seemed to be enthusiastic.

But, for the last exercise, I thought I was too long on it.
I made the wrong prediction for the time, which might spend on the last exercise.
On the result, I had not proper set closure and five minute left, I still discussed the task.
However, I should ask their difficulties and explained deeper on the materials given.
I also had to give a reading strategy to my students in order to they could read effectively.

The thing that was developed was my voice.
I asked some my friends and they said that my voice was clear and loud enough.

I was trying hard to make it good and perfect.
And the students (my friends) were really helping me.

Second Progress Test…

Teaching 2009 students was a new experience for me.
It was fun and I could get many benefits by teaching them.
They were really helping me and they were all nice students.
Pak Gun was also helping me to teach them.
He helped me to prepare the materials and review the materials also.
He was so patience and he also gave me some advices in the end of my teaching practice.

Actually, I did not sure, that I could teach them.
On the night before the D-day, I had a play performance practice until 10 p.m. and I have to teach at 7 O’clock in the morning.
Honestly, I could not sleep well in the night.
I really needed to teach soon because I wanted it over so that I could feel better.

In the morning I felt nervous, but after standing in front of the class I did not feel nervous but I enjoyed teaching them.
It was fun and they were really nice and very helping me.

By reading their comment, they said that they liked to be with me and some day they wanted me to teach them in pronunciation class.

However, one thing that was very important was that I had to make my voice clear and louder when I taught.
It was a very important thing.
How the students will get the knowledge well if the students in the last row cannot hear their teacher’s voice clearly.

On the other hand, I forget to ask them to pronounce it together.
I just asked them pronounce it one by one after I gave them example.

However, it was a meaningful experience and I was glad to be there.