The First Teaching Experience in My Life
In the second week of teaching assistance activity in SMA IT NURUL FIKRI Depok, I was assigned by teacher to teach the XB class. I had to explain you that this is an integrated Islamic high school, they separated the class between male and female students. XB is a female student class, it consist of 29 students in the class. After one week of observing and becoming teacher assistance, I had been given a chance by my master teacher to teach English in her class. Fortunately, the class that I used to teach consisted of smart students, they were so confident to speak in English eventhough it was broken English. Based on my observation in the previous week, I assumed that the female classes tend to be handled easier than male classes. Female classes also paid more attention to the teacher explanation than in male classes.
I prepared my lesson plan four days before I taught the class. Procedure text was a topic which I used to teach in the class. My master teacher told me that almost of the students were joined to the private course after school, they already learned about pattern, language feature, and form of procedure text in their course. She suggested me not to develop the lesson which focused on the grammar only because they already had learned it before for many times either in group and in the class. Actually I was inspired by Mr. Iwan who developed a lesson by combining Jigsaw and Role playing in the class as he gave it in Multiple Intelligence workshop in SSE campus. I thought it will be effective to practice their speaking and reading.
I assigned the students to work in groups and they would hold certain rules on their group, they would develop a poster from the scattered text and pictures also they will explain the poster in walking galleries activity. They would act as logistic, manager, recorder, encourager, and expert. My master teacher suggested me to give reward and punishment in my activity. She told me that if I gave them reward and punishment, they would feel that they were on duty to do the task as well. By giving them a certain role, they were responsible to their role which had a certain obligation on their group.
I promised them to give Juragan and Babu Award to the class. Juragan Award would be given if one of the groups finished the poster faster than other and it was easy to be understood also they presented the poster clearly to the class. In the other hand, Babu Award would be given for the students that interrupt the class such as: did not help the group to finish the poster, sleeping in the class, and also make a crowd in the class. By giving the reward and punishment, it was so effective for them to develop the posters seriously. It affected the students to work intensively and collaboratively in their group. However, I had to give them extra time to finish the poster because 20 minutes that I had given to them at the beginning was not enough. I learn that sometime the lesson plan can be flexible and longer from the target. This activity would be held effectively, if the teacher explains the role of the students clearly and also teacher had to avoid giving ambiguous instructions but give the instructions clearly and systematically.
I had a problem when I brought this activity to the class, it was difficult for me to assess their speaking by doing Jigsaw like in walking galleries because it was so hard for me to watch and listen all of them at the same time. In walking galleries it was also difficult to assess the other member of the group because expert is the only one who will talk in this part. I think to assess the student from walking galleries activity teacher should have more partners to assess them in the same time, it would be better if they explained it one by one in front of the class. Actually, applying Jigsaw and Role playing as I explained above is very effective to assess student’s affective manner like participation to work collaboratively in group and assess their reading of the text to follow the written instructions. However, it was a bit difficult to assess their speaking skill because of any distractions would be happened when they were doing presentation while some students were paying attention to it and the other got busy to moving around and looking for the gallery that they were like to come also a crowd was potentially happen in this time.
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kiss , based on my experiences (do the same with you, kind of punishment) I also got the same reaction . they felt afraid being "BABU" hehe , but an we change the name to be more polite ? hehe .. or perhaps it can be make the student do not affraid with the punishment it self ..
but congratulation ya for your successfulness ;)
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either polite or no that was my spontanity reaction to apply punishment in the class,,
ou know some crazy thoughts alwas running on my mind :)
guess what, the strategy was effective,,hehehehe
may be we can change the name in the future not babu perhaps kacung :p
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