My observation group did not observe the class yet because everytime we entered the classroom, the teacher asked us to teach the students. We did not know whether if the classroom learning was effective or not.
On the first day we entered the classroom, we were surprised because our master teacher suddenly asked us to take the responsibility to handle the class. It was hard to manage the class because there were forty students in the class and it was very crowded.
This week the students are learning about recount and narrative text. Our master teacher said that it was hard to ask the students to write. They always repeat the same mistake eventhough the teacher already told them about the right grammar and the appropriate sentence structure. They also did not really like to write, because they always delay submitting their writing task.
Fortunately, we already discussed with our master teacher about the activity that we were going to do before we entered the class, we proposed some activities that can be done by group work. Our master teacher was not sure about the group work because based on her experience, not all of the group member give contribution to the group work.
The teacher already explained about the text orientation on the last meeting, and actually the teacher had also assigned them to make a recount text. The teacher was quite sure that they have not finished the assignment yet. The teacher wanted the students to finish their recount text, so we agreed to ask them to make a recount text in groups to make it faster.
We divided the class into ten groups which consist of four students randomly. Actually it was only an ordinary activity, but the students seemed interested and “awake” maybe it because they have to move to find their group. Probably it also because of the teachers hardly asks them to work in group.
They could finish their work in thirty five minutes, but they seemed bored at the end of the class when they have to give attention to the other group’s presentation. The teacher said that it was interesting, but my observation group still thought that it was not effective yet.
On the next day we already prepared everything to teach the next class, we wanted to create other activities that could be more interesting and effective. Actually we did not really create the activities, we just combine the activities that we have done in our class in SSE, and so we can say that we stole our lecturers’ idea.
Firstly, we divided the students into groups again, and then we did the “We will rock you claps” to get the students’ attention just like what we did in Pak Iwan’s PETA class. After that, we gave them pieces of paper and they have to differentiate which one are belong to narrative’s characteristics and which one are belong to recount. For that activity, we stole it from Ibu Gum in LTM class.
Once again, we stole Pak Iwan’s method and decided who became the logistic, encourager, time keeper, and illustrator in each group. They have to create a narrative story based on the title that we gave to them. We allowed them to create the story just like the way they want to. For example, they could change snow white into a frog at the end of the story and they were very exited to start their own story.
We only gave twenty minutes to them to finish their writing. We were expecting that if they have very limited time, they would feel that they were in a competition so they could finish it faster, and it works! They tried to do it as fast as they could, even the time keeper forgot their job because they were too focus to finish their story. Some group’s time keeper tried to trick us and stopped the time on their mobile phone so they have more time to finish it. We did not mind, even actually we were very grateful because it means that they were enthusiast to do their best. Finally, the time was up and most of them did not finish their work but they seemed like they just have a nice time.
The teacher thanks to us because our method could make the students finish the narrative text faster and they have improved their writing. She also said that we did a good job, but there were a weakness; time management. It was hard for us because we have a very limited time. The lesson time also have to decrease because of the time which the students need to enter the class because they have a moving class system.
We already prepared the time management for the next class. I felt confident enough because we already did the teaching simulations in SSE, but in the real class with the real students, especially a class with forty students, I think I did not ready yet to teach alone.
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