10th Reflection

Five of my friends had performed their teaching this week. They were Sely, Diah, Cahyo, Bayu, and Riska. I have learned many things from their performances. Sely gave us interesting induction by telling her fake story about Facebook. She also had nice PowerPoint presentation and song. But somehow she needed to explain more clearly because sometimes her explanation was confusing. Diah performed really well. I think she spoke clearly and loud enough. She also gave us interesting material and she looked really confident. Maybe she needed to be more enthusiastic and communicative because she didn't invite the students to speak a lot. On the other hand, Cahyo could attract the students' attention well. His performance also looked more "serious" than his previous performance in group teaching. However, he needed to explain more clearly. The last two performers were Bayu and Riska. Bayu didn't speak fluently enough and somehow he looked nervous. However, his material about procedure text was good and clear. Meanwhile, Riska looked confident and calm. I like the way she spoke because she looked relaxed and she could manage the students well. Maybe she needed to pay attention to the students' mistakes because when I didn't pronounce "procedure" correctly, she didn't correct it.

Well, speaking of my pronunciation microteaching, I didn't teach on last Monday because several days before we suddenly decided to arrange the material and the schedule. Detta wanted to teach "falling intonation" while I wanted to teach "rising intonation" so that Detta got the first week's turn and I got the second week's turn (that is going to be next Monday). When I was watching Detta's performance, I felt nervous because the students were not "calm and quiet" type of students. Therefore, I am now preparing a strategy to make them involved well in the lesson. How come? Not by bus, of course... :p I don't know...I hope tomorrow I can find the answer. Amen to that!