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.