New schema... New Spirit

This is really great experience! I have a new schema of myself.

At the beginning of the PETA class, I have say that I don’t have a passion of being teacher, but I believe someday I’ll find my way for loving this profession. This is the time, my first experience teaching at big class of high school students. I have discussed with the master teacher of the lesson plan, she always said to give exercises and quiz for checking the students’ understanding. At that time, I’m asking in silence why it is a must. Based on my experience in study, SSE has teach me to becoming new generation of teacher and assess the students by high order thinking skills, the assessment needs at this level is not just assessed from pencil and paper test. I want to complain, but the teacher has show me that teaching in this school have to refer to the syllabus and rules of teaching.  So, I just keep silence and continue design the lesson plan based on the teacher want, but I still enter the grouping and games for variety the teaching methods. 

Then I teaching with my team, we have good preparation although we are so nervous. We have organized all, but we still have problem. Then we and the master teacher discuss the teaching experience, we have problem at the time organization. The teacher said that we have many activities with many methods and the students didn’t accustom to the grouping, so the activities is out of the time. In my opinion, the activities are effective because the students have found the formula by their own selves, and they enjoy the step, that is proven by their reflection in reflection flipchart. That is true, that the grouping methods need more time. My conclusion of the problem is the grouping methods is good for build students’ concept understanding but we have to prepare much time for it, and then in another meeting we have to use the others methods for variety the teaching.

It is similar with the master teacher’s opinion about the teaching and learning process when she was interviewed. The teacher said that as a teacher we should aware with students’ need, the teaching and learning process is based on the students needs, and it is flexible based on the materials brings. When the situation is out of control we have to use other teaching methods, we choose the best methods for the students. The conclusion is when we are being a teacher we have to aware and we have to be smart in applying the teaching learning methods, we must variety the methods and being closed to the students.

That is the reason I said that I have find my passion, I’m happy knowing someone, I enjoy have a conversation with others, and the point is when I’m on the stage as a teacher, I feel as princess who was waited to share the knowledge and let them do something fun for understand deeply about the knowledge shared.