PETA Reflection Journal
(Teaching Assistant Week 2)
In the second weeks of my school observation program, I did teaching practice in the class. I taught my student based on my lesson plan that I have made before. I showed my best for my performance in front of the class. I got a lot of input from my master teacher about my method when I taught my students. She told me that there are some effective and ineffective way during I did teaching practice.
There are the effective ways that I have done in the classroom.
I opened my class with ice breaking such as, greeting, introduction, and game. Honestly, I felt nervous for my first class. But I tried to make the class condition comfort by doing something. Firstly, we introduced each other then I gave them post-it and asked them to write their name there. Then they stick it in their chest. I thought its effective, because in can make we became closer to each other. After the classroom became comfort and friendly, I tried to ask them question about the previous lesson (narrative text). So, there is communication between us. Secondly, I explained the material to remain students about the lesson. Then ask them to read the narrative text in form video and answer some questions according to the text. We choose to show the text in form of video is because to make it more interesting to read by the students. I hope it can improve students’ interest to learn English. Why, I said this way is effective? After listen to my explanation, I would the student do practice directly based on their understanding. So it’s mean that student not only understand but also can produce something (their own text) in the real life. Thirdly, when the students did their task, I went around the class to check the students work and make sure that they have understood about my explanation. I ask student one by one, and did lecture-discussion with them. I thought it’s also effective, because we can make sure whether the student understand or not about the lesson. Beside that we can help them by ask about the difficulties one by one and then gave them the solution. Then the last, I always give them reward like praises or applause for give them intrinsic motivation.
There are the ineffective ways that I have done in the classroom:
There are some things that ineffective and I should to fix it. Some student said that I explained the lesson too fast. It makes them rather confuse. So I should teach more slowly and leisurely. Then, because I am the beginner, I still do know how to manage my class well. Sometime students didn’t pay the attention to my explanation. According to this condition, I’ll learn more how to manage our class well and make them focus about the lesson. The last is time management. Although I have arranged the lesson plan well, it doesn’t work as well as I hope in the real live. I find difficulty when I try to match the time of learning based on my lesson plan. Sometimes it’s more than our prediction. Finally I lack the time to teach my students.
Ok that’s all about my experience during the second week. I hope I can be better and better. I’ll do my best in the future as the teacher. I will fix some mistaken that I have did in my first teaching practice. I wish I can decrease the ineffective thing and increase the effective thing. Amiin! J
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