Senin, 02 Mei 2011

Various Tastes of Teaching (Reflection 8 & 9)

Wow. It’s been so long since I posted my last reflection. This reflection would discuss about the performance of six of my friends last week. They are Delis, Tia, Siwi, Rei, Yosi, and Rian. Delis, Tia, and Siwi performed on Tuesday, while Rei, Yosi, and Rian performed and Thursday. All of them have created rich tastes of teaching.

From Delis performance, I learned (how to listen to) expressions of giving sympathy. In my opinion, Delis material was good. All of the dialogues in the recording were related to expression of giving sympathy. In his performance, Delis also pointed at inactive students. The students who were inactive finally joined the class activity. However, in my opinion, Delis’ instruction before the listening activity was not really clear. The time given to answer the questions was also not long enough. For Senior High School students, especially if they did not really have excellent ability in listening, the questions were going to be difficult to be done. Delis was also not really careful in checking students’ answers. Often when the students miss one or two words in answering the questions, Delis did not correct them. Despite Delis teaching performance, students coming late disturbed the teaching activity. I think all of us need to come on time so that our friends’ performance won’t be disturbed.

From Tia’s performance, I learned (how to express) expressions of giving sympathy. Power point used was a good idea, especially because Tia also communicated to the students by using the power point. Compared to her previous performances, her last performance was so much better. She had imporoved a lot. However, there were something needed to be improved still, in my opinion. Even though Tia was communicative when she used power point, the same thing didn’t happened when she explained the material. Tia tended to explain the definition by reading the text herself. I think it was going to be better if she asked the students the definition first then explained the definition herself. Beside that communication issue, another thing needed to be improved were the situations given to the students as the trigger of the students’ making dialogue. The situations are not really relevant to Senior High School context.

From Siwi’s performance, I learned (how to listen to) narrative story titled Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In my opinion, her performance was really attractive. The story, which was funny with the interesting pictures in it, was relevant to Senior High School students, even though it was so much better to be implemented in Elementary Students. Her performance was also motivating the students (at least I felt motivated). She was also fluent. The instructions given were also clear and helpful for the process of listening. However, Siwi also had some ambiguous questions in her handout which made me confused to answer.

From Rei’s performance, I learned (how to write) narrative text. In my opinion, Rei didn’t move around when she taught. She tended to stand in the middle of the front class. Just like me, I think Rei’s management of time was not really good. Like I did, she spent most of her time for game. The game was good, though. It really helped the students understand the material (generic structure of narrative text-I my self felt that the game really helped me to understand) and finally helped the students to write a narrative text with good generic structure.

From Yosi’s performance, I learned (how to listen to) expressions of giving direction. In my opinion, Yosi’s material was good. It was comprehensive and challenging. In the same time, the questions of the material was also too many and too complicated, especially for 30 minutes class of Senior High School. It was getting more difficult because Yosi’s instruction was not really clear. The difficult material and unclear instruction was not balanced with enough time to digest the written instruction by the students themselves. I my self found it really difficult to answer the questions given in the handout.

From Rian’s performance, I learned (how to express) expressions of giving instruction. Rian’s performance was really amusing. In my opinion, RIan himself didn’t really plan to joke in his performance, but some of his actions made all of us laugh. His material is also good and comprehensive, but the way he delivered them didn’t make me understand that good material. Beside the way to deliver, I think Rian also need to prepare more appropriate examples in his teaching activity, because some of the examples he made himself turned to be really funny that all of us laugh because of that. Rian’s instruction was not really clear too. I sometimes didn’t know what I should do in the learning activity.

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