By: Andari Amalia S. (21st August 2018)
This week is the real deal. We are starting to teach students. For my case, my coordinating teacher (Mrs. Bert) gave me 2 classes to handle, which are both in grade 11, group 1 and group 2. We also learnt and struggled to do our lesson plan, but Mrs. Oil always helps us by giving feedback and good materials to teach.
According to the lesson plan, there are four main phases that teachers should pay attention to in teaching, they are: 1) Information, 2) Input, 3) Focus, 5) Transfer. These four phases help us to plan our time effeciently and guide us to what we should do as a teacher to keep the students in control. These four phases should be all in total 55 minutes, and they way we divide time for each one is depending on the teachers and what topic they will be teaching. For the information phase, teachers should be giving some information and motivation to students about the lesson. Input and focus phases are when the teachers put students in control while doing their tasks in classroom. Transfer phase is for the summary of the whole lesson, that is for teacher to check their students whether they have understood the topics and how they can relate in real life experience.
There was no major problem at school. However, I faced some difficulties in making the lesson plan as i had no prior experience in making one. Also, the classroom I teach does not have facilities such as projector and speaker, which is hard for me to do my lesson. But I solved the problems with making games so that it saves my time, and it is easier for students to be involved in learning while having fun at the same time. As for language barrier, I created very simple texts using simple language with some attached images. Other times when I was explaining, I used body language and received some help from Mrs. Bert.
The students in the classroom are not high populated which it is easier for me to monitor students’ activities in class. For most of times, we like to put these students in groups and work together while discussing the lesson. Other times can be individual lesson, where students can easily come to the teachers to ask for help and ask questions.
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