sixth semester (School Experience Program)

In this semester I have done (School Experience Program) SEP at SMAN 12 Jakarta. I had an opportunity to teach three times in X science class. This school currently using the 2013 curriculum. Friday, 28^th February, 2014 I taught in X 2 science class where there were 36 students. The material that I taught was about statistics and it is focus on group data. That was my first experience teaching very noisy students. I had taught the students within 3 x 45 minutes I thought it was very tough matter for me. As usual before teaching I prepared a lesson plan, teaching materials, and a booklet of evaluation sheet to check students’ understanding. After I finished the preparation, I need to consult it to my mentor teacher. There were a lot of suggestion and comment from her. She was point out the main activity and classroom management. After long consultation, I decided to use lecturing method with consideration on an extremely tough learning material. Moreover, the students were very crowd so I could not have any flexibility to teach effectively. Personally I think teaching mathematics should avoid the concepts’ error in presenting the material because it may bring a lot of disadvantage. Therefore I learn a lot in order to teach the students effectively.

I entered the classroom at 4-6 sessions, where it was the last session within that session it was skipped for break time about 5 minutes. When I entered the classroom the condition was conducive, although there were few students who seemed tired and sleepy. Before I started the lesson activities I introduced myself first. Since nowadays students are very fond on social media hence after I introduced myself I took a few minutes to have chat about social media. It had turn out beyond my expectations because they very interested talked about it.  That kind of activity, I designed as ice breaking, in my opinion in doing ice breaking is not always with involving students’ movements. During the learning process all activities were run smoothly because the students were very cooperative (they want to be active in learning and stay focus on the lesson). At first I thought with very tough material in a short time learning the students would have a hard time and some materials might not be covered. However, it was the opposite of my thought because all of the material was conveyed properly and the students were doing well. I also still had an opportunity to do an evaluation to check students’ understanding and have a brief reflection about the lesson.

The evaluation sheets that I gave to the students were a matter for the students because they need to finish the task and doing a correction. From that evaluation activity the score will be graded. After correcting students' work, I was very happy because almost all of the students were able to work on the problems that given, and it is proven by students score where most of the students were get 100 point. I think the students' work is a benchmark on measuring how success I am in delivering the lesson. During the explanation tried to use the simple phrase and the sample questions that given were   authentic and meet with the students’ real life context.  Therefore I hope the students will be more motivated to follow my lesson. Time management in teaching was also a thing that must be considered in this SEP I required to use one meeting to deliver one chapter of course this is not an easy matter because   personally, I thought the material supposed not to be delivered in one meeting. However, fortunately at this time I can manage time well so the chapter can covered. It was proven by from all the activity on the lesson plan was going in line with my expectation.

I think teaching a real class is different when I did microteaching. Not all teaching methods could be applied in a real classroom, moreover the demands of the curriculum requires teachers to use lecturing and discussion method to deliver the material. However, due to the condition of classrooms that are not in big size hence group discussion is appropriate to be applied.  I have learned a lot of things during my SEP.  In case as a teacher I need to prepare various plans, if the first plan cannot run properly there is a backup plan. Besides that, the range age between the students and I was not far so I could know what they interest in.  Therefore I could design a simple approach using topic that they like which is about things that exist around them. As for my weakness, I was too fast in delivering the material also sometimes I forgot that not all of my students have the same competence. In that cases there were some students could understand the material easily and some of them are having a hard time to understand the material. Maybe for my next teaching I need to explain slowly hence the students are not confused or puzzled.

Rika Pratiwi

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