Personal Reflection [ week 13 ]

Finally, I practiced teaching for the second time in front of my friends and it means that there would be no more micro teaching class. :(
I would like to make some review about that day.

The first was Rina. She was a calm teacher and she did not too much talking. I thought that she have to be more interactive and attractive so that the students will pay more attention to her.
The second was me, hehe. I could only say that I have tried to give my best performance, but at the last, I still felt that I have to develop my teaching skill [smangat..smangat..].
The third was Nico. At the first section of the class, he showed a video about someone who was getting nervous during his presentation. I thought that it was a funny video to attract students' motivation. In his performance, Nico looked very enthusiast to deliver his material to the students. The fourth was Adit. He was confidence and looked matering the materials. It looked that he prepared the material well.
The Fifth was Olive. She was a calm teacher. She prepared the material well and the way she taught was understandable and easy to folow.
Yap!! finally, it was all that I can say for the last meeting of micro teaching!

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Personal Reflection [week 12]

Humm, teaching in lower semester was not as spooky as I imagined!

Before taught in lower semester, I doubt myself whether I could teach well or not. The lecturer gave me 100 minutes to teach and I have no partner in practice teaching. At first, I do not believe myself that I could teach in 100 minutes. But, when I taught lower semester, 100 minutes was seemed very short. The keys were preparing the lesson plan with details of activities and using ice breaker to make the class’ atmosphere better. I thought that it was really nice experience!! I will miss it…

Oopss.. it was the third week of class teaching, the next week I have to practice teaching! I saw that some of my friends were very serious in their last class teaching. To be honest, I saw that their performances were decreasing rather than their first performance. I don’t know why, but it seemed that they lost their spirit in teaching. Maybe it caused of it was their last class teaching, so they wanted to finish it as soon as possible.

Back to me, I am not sure if I can teach well. I feel that I still have a lot of weaknesses. I think there are many things should be changed in me. Nevertheless, I am sure that I can give better performance in my second class teaching. There were many things I learned from my first class teaching. I have some strategies for my second class teaching such as playing a game to attract students’ motivation.

I hope I can give my best in my second class teaching. SEMANGAT!!!

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Personal Reflection [ week 11 ]

hmm.. what a nice class..

that Tuesday was the second week of micro teaching Test, on that day I was being an observer...
it was interesting to see my friends from behind the mirror... I can clearly feel the atmosphere in the class. Pronunciation, the teachers' faces during teaching, teachers' nervousness can be clearly seen..

from some of my friends' performances, I saw that they were many often doing something that actually was not important such as pawing their hair, laughing loudly, etc. from 5 teachers, I thought that there were only 2 or may be just 1 teacher who really prepared the material.
I was surprised with my friend who really prepared the material, she made a little book to be distributed to the students and I thought that it was very great idea, at least it showed me that she really-really tried to get well-performance in teaching.

mm.. I also saw some my friends made a worse performance [ I meant that their first performance was much better than their second performance].
It is also a homework for me! I have to make a better performance next two weeks..
go..go..go..!!

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Personal Reflection [week 10]

Ups.. because the bad weather, I got sick and I did not come to class =(

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Personal Reflection [week 9]

Horaii!!!
There was no micro teaching class. I was happy because I got 'free time' for about 3 hours. I used my time for reviewing my lesson plan. I went to workstation at the library and made some changes in my lesson plan. I looked that my lesson plan was not good enough. I browsed for ESL/EFL website, tried to find games that could be applied in my lesson plan. But, it was difficult to find games which were suitable with my topic.
Then, I talked with my friend named nonok. I asked for her advice about games that can be used in listening class. She gave me a nice game named "whispering a sentence"! humm, I was interested with that game and finally, I would use that game.

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Personal Reflection [ Week 8 ]

"yakin pada dirimu sendiri!"
huff, maybe that is the best word to motivate me. I don't know what happen with me, but after I saw my friends performance, I thought that there were some things in me which should be improved. I got many positives comments from my friends and Mr. Prast. I remember when I practiced teaching class, it was not 'my best performance' i think.
These are 'my bad' when I practiced teaching:

• I smile too often
• I speak too often in my speaking class
• I was too relax in teaching

From my friend's blog, Adria, I get comments like this:

" The way he taught was too relax and it confused the students a lot. He presented two topic at the same lesson. He taught the expression of sympathy and happiness. I thought those topics should have been separated in different meeting because before the students got the idea of the first topic, they had to face another topic. Moreover, the objectives were vague and doubtful, I was not sure whether the students achieved the indicators or not. "

In the next class teaching practice, I get topic : Listening for SMP grade 7. I will try to do my best on it. Comments from my friends will be guide for me to improve my teaching skill. In the next class teaching, I plan to do this:

• make handout which is suitable with students' grade and make sure that the students can achieve the indicators.
  
• because this is listening class, students will listen more.
• not too often smiling.. =)

yeap! I think that's all for my reflection. comments and suggestions are hoped!

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Personal Reflection [ week 7 ]

In the 7th meeting of micro teaching class, I acted as a X grade student. From the beginning until the end of meeting, I just sit and watched my friends who practiced teaching. There were different characters between one and others who practiced teaching at that time. There were serious teacher, funny teacher and 'nervous' teacher. I liked to see Zita's and Adria's performances. They could explain their material well. From Zita, I learned that when we confidence and had mastered the material, we could explain the material smoothly. From Adria, I learned that when we used media for teaching, students' motivation to learn our material will increase. Students would be more comfortable and enjoyed the material given by teacher.
I think that's all I can write for my reflection.

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Reflection after practice teaching [ week 6 ]

Last week I have practiced teaching. I decided to teach "how to express happiness and how to express sympathy. I took those topic because I thought that those topic were easy to be taught to the students. This topic also fit with the standard competence and the basic competence which I should teach to. When I started teaching, actually I was nervous. I thought whether the students will pay attention to me or not. But, while I was teaching, I did not feel nervous anymore. First, I gave them song to be interpreted. The song's theme was happiness, I chose it because I would like to teach how to express happiness (I mean that the song will guide them to enter the material). During teaching, I felt that the most difficult was how to make the students pay attention to the material I thought. When I finished teaching, I got 3 written comments. Their comments were so constructive, thanks for that. From the first class teaching, I learned that teaching in conventional way (giving handout and explaining) will make the students bored. I have to have something different like using media namely video or something else. If I should teach this lesson again, I will have different way to explain the material. My first practice teaching is an unforgettable experience!!

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