Reflection SEP week 2

            The second week is the week which my friends and I started to teach in classes. We were permitted to teach only in grade X and XI, both IPA and IPS in grade XI. My partner, Nizar, and I got class XI IPS 3, because we observed that class from the first observation day. The teacher gave us two topics for teaching in class XI IPS 3, report text and expression of relief, pain, and pleasure. He also gave us an additional topic, but it was must did by two teams, my teams and Melita's team. The additional topic was expression of relief, pain, and pleasure.

We taught report text in the first day. We had prepared the lesson plan since Friday in the first week. Reading and writing were the target skills. We had a game for the lesson, its name was reading race. The students have to find the answers by reading the text that have been patched on the wall. The lesson was running well, and appropriate with the lesson plan. However, it was a little bit boring in the beginning, because we thought to give them a brainstorm to make them think about something related to the topic. We give rewards for the team who won in the game. In the end, we gave them a reflection of the game, to always be serious in every lesson. The weakness of the first day teaching was the teaching finished earlier. We still had around 10 minutes again, but we decided to finish the lesson.

It was better for the second day. The students were very enthusiastic in joining the lesson. The target skill was speaking. We decided to give them brainstorm again, then making a game, the name was mix-match game. The students had to match the expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure. Then, the students had to present their work. The last activity of lesson development was making a conversation. They had to work in pair, and made a conversation, then, they present their conversation in front of class. The lesson was running well, and better than the first day.

We had a same topic in the last day, it was expressing relief, pain, and pleasure. Melita's team agreed to use my team's lesson plan, like in the second day. However, it was very different. We taught in XI IPA 1. The lesson was running fast, and we finished around 15 minutes before the time was over.

I enjoyed the days of team teaching. However, there were many obstacles when we were teaching. The first, it was the first time we taught in the front of real students, but it was a challenge for me. The second, we taught in the different class, with a different character of the students. The students were cooperative in the first class, but it was not in the second class.

If I connect what have I done when I was teaching with effective teacher, I could say that I haven't been qualified as an effective teacher for overall. As what I wrote in the first reflection about an effective teacher, "An effective teacher is a teacher who has good preparation before they teach, has good manners, clear in explaining the material, objective in giving assessment, creative, and understand what the students need. So, the purpose of teaching can be fulfilled". My friend and I had prepared the material, lesson plan, and what we need when we taught. We also had explained the material clearly. We had a good manner and being professional. Although the purpose and target skills were fulfilled, I think I haven't known what the students need to learn when we were teaching.

From all the days of SEP, I could make a conclusion, we as the teacher, have to know the characters of the students, then, we must know what they want to learn. The most important thing is we could be an effective teacher.

I hope I could be better in the next SEP, or the next time when I was teaching. So, I could be an effective teacher, not only in the school, but in everywhere I teach.

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Reflection SEP week 1

Reflection of SEP for First Week

I got placed in SMA Asisi, Menteng Dalam, in this year on School Experience Program. I got placed there with my friends; Tri Handoko, Dendi Adrian, Mahgda Melita, Bernadeta Elmiatra, M.Nizar Zulfikar Paris, Yuko Pangestu, and Ambar Nurul Ansari. Although it was near of the campus, but we still had to go in early morning. We had to be there before 06.30 am, and joining the pray session before the lesson in teachers' office. The teachers welcomed us warmly.

The Students in that school are teached to be responsible and dicipline. However, they are teenagers, it's too hard to handle them. Actually, the students there are smart. When I was in the first day of observation, it was a listening session. They had to listen to the song, monolog, and the teacher. When they filled the blank parts of text, the got the good result. Almost all of them just did 1 - 2 wrong answers. The main point that I got is they are smart, but they don't have desirability to study. There was a teacher there who told us that most of the students went to school just wielded the chance to go out from their house. They still don't have the awareness that going to school is for study, not just go out from house.

I really enjoyed this first week. In addition that the distance of school from the campus is close, many things which I got from this week. First, I knew how Jakarta's Senior High School students ways to study in school. They always be brave everyday, be brave in answering the questions from the teacher. That's what I learnt from Brown's Principal in Language Teaching Methodologies (LTM). Second, I am now realizing that making a real lesson plan is hard, and I must work hard to make it. Third, it is need a sacrifice if I want to be a good educator/teacher. I must to get up in early morning, I must still go to school even I don't have a schedule to teach in that day. The most important thing is I must can learn together with my students, and be a friend for them.

There was no hard obstacles in the last week, but I think the obstacle will be come in second week. I think the appropriate term is "challenge". I will be started to do team teaching with my friend, Nizar in class XI IPS 3. the students in that class are good, but it is like the ordinary class, there are several bad students in the class. That's why I called it a challenge. The teacher made a schedule for us. Because of the number of English students is more than Mathematic students, it made an inequitable the number of observating, teacher assisting, and team teaching. Math students had more schedule than English students, they went to the class almost everyday. The English students were had a schedule to go to the class just 2 - 3 times per week.

When I saw the technology which used there, I think it was out of date. When I was in Vocational High School, I used a computer in Language laboratory, but they used a tool such interractive tape which the teacher could talk to the students by using earphone.

I hope it will be more interesting in second week, because I will be teach in second week. Hopefully my friend, Nizar, and I can teach the students well, and can make an interesting class lesson. So, finally we could get a good result.

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Reflective on Effective Teacher - Part 2

The second meeting is interesting, because the lesson was started with watching video. I always feel curious when there is a video in a lesson, what is the video about. It was about Tematik Teaching. Based on video, Tematik teaching is teaching approach which more stressing on the theme of teaching, not stressing on subject.

The video had shown me that tematik teaching gives student more opportunity to learn more about the theme, and more opportunity to interact with their friends. Because the video had shown that the teacher came to a field with the students, and the teacher explained about characteristic of Rambutan fruit. She explained the color of the leaves of Rambutan, the color of rambutan itself, and showed the way how to count the numbers of Rambutan.

However, there was a weakness of Tematik Teaching itself. The teacher was talking and spending much time in the lesson with explaining the theme, and the she didn't give her student when there was a student who asked her about black rambutan. The teacher also did a story telling, but she didn't give a chance for the students to continue the story based on their creativity.

My lecturer asked me and my friends to work in group of five persons, to discuss about Tematik Teaching in the video, and what we can do if we were the teacher. The result of discussion were some new idea from my group and other groups. My friends and I found an unique idea, we can do an "estafet story telling".

I can learn from the video, what I have to do if I were the teacher in the video. It is not easy to be an effective teacher/educator. It needs much experience and and creativity. Hopefully, I will get more experience, explanation, and tips and trick how to be an effective teacher.

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Describing, Reflecting, and Analyzing Personal Identity Through Name

Identity can called as a uniqueness from the people. Name is the simplest one from Identity. We can know people from their identity or the uniqueness without knowing their name. However, actually the case is the important of name. Some times, there are some people who want to be known by knowing their name, because every people is different.

Each people's name has meaning and secrets behind the name itself. The secrets could be characteristic of each people. I will give a certain example, that is my name. My name is Abdul Majid Robiansyah. The meaning of my name is The high follower of God. If I may guess, Robiansyah is from "Rob" in Arabic which the meaning is God, but I don't know the certain meaning of Robiansyah.

From what I experienced until now,I guessed that  the wish of my parents who have given me that name in order for giving me a high responsibility. Allah gave me a high responsibility through my parents. Responsibility to raise up the degree of my family. I have experienced many failure and success, but I know that I can learn many things from both those failure and success.

I was always be a class leader when I was in Senior High School. I am happy and enjoy when I led my friends in my class or group. I think that by leading group, I will learn many things about leadership and I can train my critical thinking. From that case, I have an ability in leadership.

When I was learning Humanistic Studies in second meeting in the class, my friend guess my characteristic. She guessed that I am a religious boy, and easy going, and she guessed the right answer. If I look from my name, Abdul comes from Arabic language which the meaning is Follower. From that word, I realize that I am religious person.  Then, it is Majid, it comes from Arabic language which the meaning is high. I have a high priority when I chose somehing, and when I make something, I always try to make it perfect by my self. I will ask help from other if I can't finish it. The last is Robiansyah. Rob comes from Arabic language which the meaning is God. We know that God has good and perfect characteristic. That refers to me, I am included to perfectionist person. I always make something perfect, and I always seeing all cases seriously. Because I believe that all things which done well and best from us, the result also will be good.

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My Reflection about Effective Teacher

I learned about the main point of PETA itself as an introduction the first meeting in PETA subject, that is about effective teacher. I thought that the kind of teacher are only two, they are good teacher and bad teacher, but there is a term "effective teacher". First thing that came up in my mind was

"Who was your favorite teacher, and who was the teacher that you hate". That was the question that made me confused. Actually I don't really remember who is my favorite teacher and the opposite one. However, when I was in Vocational high school, I really amazed to my English teacher, and the chairman of my major in Vocational high school. One time, when he (My English teacher) was teaching my friends and me, he ever express that he was forgotten the meaning of an English word in Indonesia Language. From that expression, I could grab that he is very expert in English language. Then, the chairman of my major. He couldn't speak English, even his ability in speaking English is worse than me, but he had a great motivation and desirability to capable in speaking English.

I really wanna have a motivation as great as the chairman of my major, and capable to speak English well, but not forgetting the Indonesian Language.

The point that also very important for me as a educator candidate is how the teachers way when they teach us, is it effective? Is it right  that a good teacher is a teacher who has effectiveness in teaching?

When I was thinking about what is an effective teacher, the thing that comes up in my mind is the teacher who has students that always get a good score in the test/exam. It could be indicated that teachers' goal in teaching the students is fulfilled.

I think, an an effective teacher is a teacher who has good preparation before they teach, has good manners, clear in explaining the material, objective in giving assessment, creative, and understand what the students need. So, the purpose of teaching can be fulfilled.

I hope I can learn more about what the effective teacher is, and maybe tips and trick to be an effective teacher/educator.

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