reflection #16

After pass this six months, I would like to say... Whoaaa! I <3 Micro Teaching Class! The one and only course that I like the most during I’m studying in this university.hahahahhaha

In micro class, I got many things which help me to develop myself, but I will tell you the three-most-important-development here. The first is about gesture. Such as The way I dress, the way I walk, the way I talk, the way I move, or even the way I smile and laugh. To me, those are important. In my opinion, teacher is someone who always gets the students’ attention.all students’ eyes are on the teacher. Thus, as a teacher we have to know the way to get their attention by making good gesture. The second is about giving reinforcements to the students. Before I got micro teaching class, I never know that giving reinforcement to the students is very important to boost up their spirit in learning activities. The students will feel that the teacher respects them and their answer, so for the next they willing to give attention to what we give.the last is about preparing material and manage the time well. In my opinion, the most difficult thing that teacher has to do is preparing the qualified material but not overtime. That’s so difficult because we never know what will happen tomorrow so what we can do is just prepared. And if the unexpected thing happens, what we can do is just choose and decide which material we will give then. Until this time, I haven’t felt yet that I have the characteristics of good teacher in myself. If the scale is 100%, maybe I just fulfill the 60% of it. Because I realize that there are still many things that need improvement, but I believe up to this time, I have become a good teacher as compared to long time ago when I pretend to be a teacher to my dolls.hahahahhaha

I was so thankful to God because HE put me in my micro class now, because the guys there were sooooo rawks! The lecturer was cool as well :p in this class, each person helps others in many different ways, of course. For example, if we came late, it will help our friend to just as strict with the late students by giving warning. If we always talk about something which is not relate to the material, our friend will also giving warning to back to our work, or even if we don’t know about something, our teacher will try to answer our question indirectly just to help us to guess the answer. And it also happen when I became the teacher! Each of us knows how to overcome that because we have learned from the previous experience I guess. Yaah... I think, those are the things that we do to help our friends, and this is a secret! Please don’t tell anyone! :D  

Actually, I want to pass from this class successfully, and I know that my friends will hope the same. Thus, I always tried to help them when they found any difficulties. Such as when there was any misspelling, sometimes I wrote on a paper that “that’s wrong, the right is…” or something like that. I did that because I also want they did the “job” well.frankly speaking, I helped them honestly and sincerely because I want pass this class with all my friends who belong to this class from the beginning.

In this time, also want to say thank you to all my friends who already give comments on my performance, not only to my friends who got the job as the observer, but also to my friends who convey informal comments in informal situations.hahha I mean, they just tell what they felt or they saw from my performances. I am super-duper-very-bery -happy with that! Because in my opinion, it can help me to develop my skill so I can be better later on. There is no hard feeling even just a little when I read the comments, because I know that what they give to me is a fact. I didn’t think that they hate me when they wrote the comments.hahha that’s so illiberal.

Finally, thanks for all my beloved friends for giving me so many awesome experiences in this six months in our class. Thanks also to my lecturer for his effort to tell us and give us an example of great teacher. I hope I can get the best best very best score in this class. I don’t need A, or B, or C, (or D? oh...Please not! T_T) if it’s not appropriate with my efforts. Just give me the score which is appropriate with my efforts up till now. Emmmmm…I think, A is fair enough, or maybe B+ or B++.hahahhahahaa. It’s up to you sir! Thank you!

God bless you all readers! Mwwwaaaach!

reflection #15

This is the last week! Yeayyyy!! I couldn’t be happier then :) in this last week, we had four people, we had to start earlier, and we got lots snack from our senior.hahahahah. This class ended happily.

However; we still have 1 task to do. (Oh no, actually 2) the first one is completing the weekly reflection, and the second one is making final reflection. And quite frankly, the hardest past for me is the task number one. And after I completed that in one day, I got something new to learn. Please do the weekly reflection frequently! I mean...if that is a weekly task, so please do it every week, because if you’re not, you yourself will get trouble! :(

reflection #14

At this week, the teachers were very great. Not too excessive, but not too minimalist as well.everybody was on the track. :) At this week, actually I really want to know what material that they give to us. I really wondering it because, the topic that they got were lil’bit confusing (maybe, it’s just for me? :p) such as “surat bisnis sederhana, or pengunaan alat-alat manual”. I just couldn’t imagine, “what will I teach if the material is like that?” but they-my friends- could do that successfully. The material was appropriate with the topic, the way they taught was also run well, and yeah...They could do it! I do give my big appreciation goes to them :)

Cheers!

reflection #13

After I finished my job for the final test, I always happy and I was very excited to come to micro teaching class. Do you know why? I bet you know the answer. Yeah! Because after that day, I have nothing to do again! I don’t need to prepare anything; I don’t need to feel any “menunggu dan dagdigdug” feeling again, one thing that I have to do is just come, sit, and have fun! Hahahhaa. 

At that time, the teachers were all boys, and I have a question just because of them, actually I have this question since long time ago. Since I was in senior high school... 

 ‘Is it true that men are simpler than women?” 

If the teacher is a man, I always wondering; why does he rarely use PowerPoint when giving the material? This question appears again at that day, when all the teachers (men) did not use PowerPoint to explain and convey the material to us. In my opinion, using PowerPoint can help the teacher itself to convey what they want to say, especially if they give realia, or picture there.

So, somebody...Can u tell me about the answer? ;p

Cheers!

Reflection #12

In my previous reflection, I stated that my micro class will have the lottery for final test. And taraaaaa!! I got the lucky number 13 to teach. J I have to teach reading skill and the topic was descriptive text. The problem was, I have to teach SMK students, so I have to prepare what type of vocational skill that I want to teach. And finally, I decided to teach describing clothes for students of dressmaking school (sekolah tata busana) so I have to find a text which has relation with that. My feeling at that time was quite different with my feeling when I had my progress test 1, maybe because I have some ways to overcome my nervous feeling.hehehehe. However, I still nervous but just a little bit! J Unfortunately, Pak Prast was not in the class at that time because he has to attend a debate competition in Semarang. Thus, I hope after he returns to Jogja, he will have time to see my performance and give comments on that in order to improve my teaching skill later on my PPL.

Cheers!

Reflection #11

For my progress test 2, Nimas and I decided to teach speaking skill in interactional speech for semester 2.
I chose speaking because I can involve the students in the class to develop their speaking ability and develop mine as well J I had to teach giving directions. Frankly speaking, I really excited to teach in the lower class because as we know, the atmosphere of course will be different because we haven’t know each other before, and also there will be no “pretending situation” like if we teach in micro class. Hahaha. And when the time has come, I felt really happy! First, because I could explain the material well and the “scenario” that I’ve prepared went well. Second, the teacher, Ms.Dewi said that I did well. I l could learn a lot from my friend who performed first in the previous week. And you know what? She gave me 4 for almost all assessment aspects! Yaaaiiyy!  :) And the third, the happiest thing was the students in that class were really rawks! They gave much attention to my explanation, they willing to participate in the class, and they were really respect all the micro teachers (or maybe because they don’t want to get “karma” later? :P) in short, It was so much fun to be a teacher * at that time* hahahhahaha

Cheers!

Reflection #10

Finally, the first time for final test came! One of my friends looked unhappy because she got beginning turn.too beginning, she said: p then I tried to support her by giving “supporting words” such as “gek ndang selesai, malah enak!” hahhahaa. I know that words will give her additional support. 

However, everything went back to the person itself. If she still has unhappy feeling, ya...We can’t do anything. And when the D-day came, she wasn’t much better than her previous turn. I mean, her previous turn was better than this time. From that experience, I learn something.something that is soooo important. “Don’t ever persuade your mind with something bad, unless you want to ruin everything become worse” this my-new-wise-word means that if you face something that you claim as a bad thing, just face it and think about the other way. Find a way to make it look interesting in your eyes.insyaallah you will “pass” that problem!

Don’t you believe, do you? Well...Just try then! :)

Cheers!

Reflection #9

Finally the progress test 1 will come to the end. However, we cannot take a rest because we will immediately have lottery for final test. Fyuuhh! Bless me everybody, so I will get the lucky number! ;D

‘Till this time, all the students did the “job” well, not only for the students who became the teacher, but also for them who became the observer. At that moment, I felt that this class has already found its atmosphere.hahhaha. 

Why did I say so? Because each of us have willingness to help our friend who teach in front instead of create so so many jokes. :D  thus, I hope later on in final test time, all of my friends in class will do the same thing again..amin!

Reflection #8

Finally the progress test 1 will come to the end. However, we cannot take a rest because we will immediately have lottery for final test. Fyuuhh! Bless me everybody, so I will get the lucky number! ;D

Cheers!

Reflection #7

Whoaaaaa!! Finally the time has come! I had to teach in front as the test 1. In my opinion, the lesson was successful because I did not feel too nervous, of course I felt it, but I tried to overcome as good as I can. In the beginning, I tried to give a warm-up activity by telling a story and asked them to answer the question based on the story. I thought that can be an effective way to get the students’ attention so hopefully they were interested in learning. However, as a person who still in progress, the weaknesses of the lesson at that time was the material. The observers said that I have to prepare more listening materials because I taught listening skills. Honestly, it’s kinda difficult to find listening material about procedure topic and my mistake was “why didn’t I record my voice to add listening materials?” :p soooo, next time If I get the chance to teach listening skill again, I will record my voice.hahha

Cheers!

reflection #6..

this week we had six friends who did their teaching test. they did very very well. I wish I could do as great as they did or even better ^^ I learned many things from their performances.
the first is about time management. we should really aware about the time management. even though we had already prepare the material, the exercises or whatever it called, but if we don't think about the time management. everything that we have prepared, will loose! hahaha.
the second is about expecting. if we had prepared the material well and also have enough understanding about time management, we have to expect about the situation that will happen in the class. we never know about the students' feeling and their answer when we give them a question. thus, in my opinion we have to think about it first before we teach, so we could know what we have do then :D
and the third is about relaxness.  although we are nervous, we're not allowed to show it to the class. because if we are nervous, it will affect our performance and the we will loose our 'image' in front of the students.
I really hope that I can practice those three things above! :p


cheers!

mine on plywood.. :p

don't you believe that this is my face, do you? :p

 

that was for mural competition at JEC last friday. unfortunately, she hasn't win yet because the assessment depends on polling by SMS. *yeah, hate that fact indeed*

and this is the mural artist.. :)

reflection #5..

this week we had "lottery-time" to know when will we teach the class for the first progress test. and...taraaaa! I got the lucky number 19. hahahha.I dunno whether it's lucky or not. I felt quite relieve because at least I'm not the first, or the second, or the third. I will have many friends before me so I can grasp the positive things from their perform later on. however, I feel scared too because number 19 is very very very loooong. when most of my friends have already relieve because they had done the test, I still have to nervous. T_T
I hope I can do the best. I had already enough provision to face it. oh ya, I also hope all of my friend can do the best as well.
cheers!

reflection #4..

Gilang and Siwi were chosen by the universe to did class teaching at that time. :) I think, everybody agreed that we prefer to see other friends' performance rather than do the performance itself. and it also happen to me. honestly, I prefer to watch them because I also could learn something from their performance.like what I had on yesterday, I learned that we shouldn't being nervous when we want to start our perform, it can be very harmful and distract aaaaaaaallll the things. on the other hand, we have to feel relax first, try to create a comfortable situation for ourselves and the class as well. and then we have to make sure that we had already mastered the material.that's the most important! :p
I know that saying the theory is easier than doing in practice. but still I believe that we can do that. I believe that we can do that. Someday, we could be a great teacher. :))

*it's not easy, but it's simple*

cheers!

reflection #3..

hmmmmm... another busy week again.especially for last Thursday, because finally I had group teaching for 15 minutes *again* however, I don't know why I didn't feel too nervous like my first teaching experience, maybe because that was the second experience. on the other hand, I felt scare instead of nervous because I didn't want to make the same mistake like what I did in the first time and I wanted to make all the things run better.And after I did it, as usual there was a commentator (one of my friends and my lecturer) who will give us so many useful comments.I really do appreciate all the comments, whether advices or critics, because I believe that those things could help me,and could increase my teaching ability as well.

Later on, we will do class teaching for 30 minutes. I'm sure we will feel more nervous and more scare, but we think positively that it will help us, and also increase our teaching ability become better for our future. please everybody..pray for me and of course my friends! GANBATTE! :)

cheers!

reflection #2

whoaaa..hello there! what's up yeah? :p
as usual, I will share my feeling in order to help me reflecting myself..
are you ready?? 3..2..1..

• if you ask me why am I joining this class, surely I will say that this class is such an obligatory class. * so, you know what I mean, uh?* In short, I have to take this class if I want tount pass semester six. however, until this second I never feel regret joining micro-teaching class because I believe that it will be useful after I graduated from this lovely university :) my lecturer was not only taught about 'how to be a good teacher' theoretical, but also taught us about 'what are actually happen in the 'real' teaching world ; and yes, it's an extremely awesome thing! :)

•  I really really enjoy my micro teaching class for sure, but if you ask me 'do I really want this?' ohh..I'm sorry, I'm...not. hehehhehehe. simple, because hxonestly this is one of the subjects that I fear most. I couldn't imagine if I should teach in front of in a set of people, explain about new material, answer students' question which maybe I might not know the answer. hmmm..but I believe, somestimes I will get the value for my future life, and job as well..

• every class has its own positive and negatives sides.and it also happens in my class..

here is the positives:

1. Mr.Prasetyo as my lecturer. *believe me, he's kind of very creative teacher even though he doesn't teach art. :p
2. every student in my class can mingle with each other although we came from different class or even different 'generation'
3. we've already practice teaching since a week ago, and I was happy because each of us would like to help each other by paying attention while one of us taught in front of the class. *because we believe that 'karma' does still exist.

and this is the negatives:

1. sometimes, we were too shy to express our feeling, to answer lecturer's question, or to give advice or suggestion to our friend. I know why, because each of us doesn't want to look as a smartass whereas we still make many mistakes *correct me if I'm wrong :p* 

uhmmm..I try to find other negative sides, but actually I can't find more..

so..because the positive sides are more than the negative one, I'm sure that we can make a great class in this semester. and I'm very proud belong to this class. yeaaaahhh!!

cheers!

MOOIE SHOP

My sister and her friend have an online garage shop. 

why garage? because they only sell secondhand stuff and most of them are clothes.As u know, all women in this world have so many-many-many clothes. *or not?* :p and they decided to give it to others but you have to pay of course! :D *believe me, the prices are really really reasonable!*

Why online? yeah..we know that everybody in this universe(who has inet connection)can access the information from others. and in my opinion, selling something by online is simpler than selling in 'real' world.hahhahaaha

That's why they asked me to be a model for the stuff. and I do agree to do that. hehehe. although the photos are only expose my body.(without face) -_____- but it's okey!

the pictures:

Soooooooo, I really wish them luck! *because I contribute to that shop as well* :D

PS: if you're interested in, you may visit HERE

Cheers!

reflection #1

*took picture(s) before the class* :p

Micro-teaching class began since two weeks ago.there were many feeling that I either my friends felt. Confusion, fear, indecision,and exciting as well. And I will tell everything in this first weekly reflections.

*PS: I'm sorry before because in the second meeting, I was sick.so in this reflection, I just tell everything in the first meeting and the third meeting. i 'm so sorry :)

•  What was the most Important thing I learned during the course?

In the first week, automatically, the  explanation about micro-teaching class is the most important. An explanation from A to Z. starts from short description of the course up to the assessment programs. Everything becomes very important in this first week :D  
while in the third week, I learned about "the truly meaning" of teaching. I taught in 15 minutes, but I felt like in 1 hour! and I knew why, it's just because a nervous feeling.and as a good teacher, you have to avoid that feeling.. oh ya!It happened in group-teaching, I can't imagine  how if it happens in class-teaching. hmmmm..

• What have you achieved?

As long as i said before, i was absent in the second meeting when my friends said that in that meeting they started to teach their partner (in pairs) by using formal English and explain about our material as clear as possible. Because i was absent, it means that i lost my first valuable experience so unfortunately i haven’t achieved anything.  However, after I had the experience in the third week to teach my friends in 15 minutes, i approved, at least for myself, that I could do that! I could be a teacher although there were so many weakness(es) :) 

• What did work in the classroom?

Since we have the same feelings towards this course, so i think the cohesiveness, and the cooperation between each person in the classroom is the answer. And I hope, this will be last forever ..

•  What did not work in the classroom?

Honestly, I haven’t  know the answer yet. But in my opinion from the first week yesterday, we haven’t enough courage to say our opinion in answering questions.maybe It happened because all of us were tired, hungry, sleepy or it was still in the early week so we haven’t get the "atmosphere" of the class. heheheehe

No more questions that should be answered. On the other hand I should give a question.Thus, I would like to ask.."how to overcome a confidence crisis when we are in front of the class?"

mila,tizen,dimas,me,nimas *taken by:diah* :)

I hope this class can be a fun class, has a great quality, and of course makes the member of the class proud at least for 1 semester. Because I believe if  this class goes well, later on we who are in it too will become a better person.

Cheers! 

brand new day!

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and this one is special for my micro teaching class :)