4th Reflection

In the latest week, I didn't have any teaching practice...I only watched my friends perform their group teaching in front of the class, they were Gilang and Siwi. I think my friends had their own teaching style and they really did their best.

Gilang had a good instruction skill so that we could understand his instructions well. He also mastered the material. However, the material was quite difficult and the exercise didn't really represent the aim of his topic (procedure text) because the students were focused on the difficult vocabularies. And in the end he was so hurried in explaining the material because of the limited time.

Meanwhile, Siwi was a very interactive and confident teacher. She also had a good questioning skill. However, maybe sometimes the students were not involved in her questions because she tended to give rhetorical questions (she answered her own questions). And sometimes her gestures also looked too polite, maybe because she tried to give her best to the students.


I've learned few things from my friends' performance and the feedback. I think I am motivated to perform better because of seeing my friends' performance. :)

3rd Reflection

On Thursday, I did my first group teaching. I got the third turn! Whoa...I felt really nervous, especially before I started teaching. However, I tried to control that feeling and gave it my best shot since I had prepared it wholeheartedly. :)

My teaching topic was "Describing Objects". I asked my friends to pretend as Grade X students in Senior High School (speaking class). I think my induction setting was not really interesting, since I only told the class that we could describe objects to other people using some characteristics, and then I asked them to answer what the characteristics are, based on the handouts given. What worked well was that I tried to involve them speak a lot (I used students-centered interaction style). I think my friends also understood my questions well because I tried to use simple English. I also used teaching media to do the class activity. In this case, I asked the class to form 3 groups and each of them received one random card. After that, they had to describe the object on the card and let the other friends in their group guess that mysterious object. I think they had fun with that game. :)

However, my lecturer said that I often smiled or laughed a lot when teaching. Actually, I was born with a bubbly or happy face...and my friends often say to me that my face always looks happy. Besides that, some of my friends (the boys) that sat at the back were really funny at that time, so I couldn't bear to laugh...But I think it's apparently important to reduce my tendency to laugh because as my lecturer said, my students might think that I'm not serious if I laugh too much. :D My friends (who had group teaching) and I also had the same problem; we didn't give any response to certain questions asked by the class. Maybe it was because we either didn't know the answer or thought that our friends who asked were just kidding...hehehe. Well, another important thing for me to note is that I need to pay attention to the SKKD which will be used by the school so that I can give the proper material to the students. Hopefully, I can learn from the feedback and improve my performance!

2nd Reflection

If I am asked the reason why I join microteaching class, I think besides the fact that it is a compulsory subject to graduate from PBI, this class is probably my destiny...hehehe. No matter I like it or not, I must join this class with positive mind and hopefully I can pass it well.

When I entered PBI, I didn't even realize the existence of this subject. And once after I knew about this class from my seniors and friends, I felt really worried. But lately I've realized that this class is important because I can learn many new things, for example from the feedback and comments given by my friends and my lecturer when the class had teaching practice. So, I guess I do want this. And maybe I'll try to enjoy this class. Why not? :)

Like what I said in the previous post, I am still not sure whether in the future I will be a teacher or not, because I've always dreamed to be a professional musician...and also a translator (because I have certain interest in this profession). However, I think I can get positive things or benefits from this class whatever I will be in the future. For example, I can learn how to handle the audience, especially making interactions with them. I can also learn the skills of public speaking, improving my confidence, how to be more creative, and many more. If I become a teacher, I will apply the knowledge that I gain from this class. :)