"PETA" Reflection of Teaching Assistance Program

            In this 3rd semester, we asked to be a teacher assistant in SMA N 43 Jakarta. I observed in first grade of senior high school, it is X1, X2, and  X3. This school has 4 floors, some of rooms are renovating. In one class they have white board, marker, and two fans (but it move so smooth, so we can’t feel the wind therefore the class is very hot. They have LCD but it is in the office so, if there is a teacher want to use it, they may take it in principle room.

One week has passed, I became an assistant teacher, a lot of new things that I got. Talking about effectiveness and ineffectiveness. I think there are still many things need to improve in teaching and learning process by the teacher. Previously she had told me that it’s rather difficult to set an activity in a class because there are 35 to 40 students. In the teaching and learning process teacher seldom use the power point or other tool, because she is not too familiar with this technology. In this week they are studying about recount text and procedure text.

 Based on my observations of what effective teaching is done by the teacher is an activity where the teacher asked the students to come in front of the class to write something and the other activity is teacher ask  some student to read a short dialog in front of the class.  In my opinion it is effective way because here teachers can train students’ ability to speak in front of many people.

What about not effective class room learning?, well, I also find  not effective in the classroom learning, The ineffective  classroom learning is when the teacher explain , or ask something to do, not all students pay attention to the teacher, some students just busy with their own activity, some other shouted loudly in the class, but the teacher didn’t do something to this students to make they become serious in the class.  Beside that The teacher didn’t use an activity to make their students think creatively.

Knowing about this condition, if I have to teach I think, we need an activity where the whole class can join in the class room, not just listen the explanation of teacher, but we need to invite students to join in the teaching and learning process. Last Friday we did it, the teacher ask me and my friend to teach in X3 class, where there are 40 students in the class. And we have to teach recount text, so I designed a lesson plan how to make students pay attention to the class. We decided to choose jig show or gallery walk. You know it well done. Even the vocabulary of students still limited but the students pay more attention to the class activity as a prove they can create their own story based on their experiment (recount text). I’m very happy because some students want us to teach again in their class they said that, “we are very happy when you teach us, because it was interesting classroom activity, and I hope you come to our class next time.” Ouch that’s words make me very happy, it shows that we make some a good new thing for them.