"PETA" Reflection of Teaching Practice Program

Now, we come to the second week of teaching practice. Although the activities of teaching practice should be done in the second week but I and my partner have started doing teaching practice in the first week on Friday for 90 minutes. Where in the second week we were asked to teach in three classes on Tuesday starting in first hour until the last hour. We teach  in X3 about Narrative for 90 minutes, then X2 about making, approving and canceling appointment for 135 minutes, and the last X2 about announcement for 90 minutes. So if we calculate all, we teach for 360 minutes or same with 6 hours.

Firstly I was very nervous because when I observed in the classroom. I saw a lot of students shouting everywhere when the teacher explains the lesson in front of the class. Only a few people who hear to the teacher’s explanation. Students look bored and don’t care about the lesson. They just busy with their own activity. The students in the class are passive. Therefore we tried to design a lesson plan to make the class more active, using a variety of games and activities that make students interest and be more active in class.

Based on the experience of teaching that I did of course there are effective and not effective way of leaning that happened. According to me I thought the effective of teaching and learning that happened in my class , first is warming up, here by allocating ten minutes, it could invite the attention of our students enthusiasm  and to make they interest to learn. The other activity that effective is about the presentation. We explained the lesson by using power point presentation as the result .it can attract students enthusiastic to hear an explanation from us and make them understand the material more quickly and easily. The other activities such as gallery walk, presentation to the class, acting, and etc. I think it was effective because students can practice their speaking skills, make students more active and make students think creative to create a product.

However, there were also things that are not effective. For example about the presentation using projector it’s need longer time to set LCD. Then in one game that we did “jigshow” where students are not too familiar about things like that. Here they are still not serious when explain or visit to another group. However on the second occasion, students are more respectful and easy to customize.

If I have to teach in this class again with the same condition. Firstly I will prepare the LCD before the class start so it will not need much time. For some activity where the students not too familiar with some activity, I will explain the objective of that activity and make some rules. And at the end of the class I will give them evaluation so they will be more serious.