Teaching Assistance is inspiring me, ^_^

Great! This will be my new great experience since I visit to the senior high school ever. That was my first impression when I was going to go to MAN 11 Jakarta for being teacher assistance as my schools experience program task. After observing the learning process, I think for becoming a teacher we should be an expert, a professional, a specialist, skilled, highly competent. :) Because you know, actually teacher is a narrator, a story teller, a marketer, an actor, a singer and also a comedian. Teachers should deliver the content by narrating even make it becoming a story, they should promote their subject in order to build students interest, they should be professional in doing their job, forgetting their personal problems when teach in the class and they also should be able to sing even make some joke as the energizer.

Besides that, content of the instructional materials is very important for a professional teacher and the teaching skill is also really important and it is enhanced by practice. It is right if people say practice makes perfect. In this first week, I have observed and helped the teacher to teach the students and I realize that how good the lessons plan that has been made, but if the students didn’t learn well, it’s really useless. A good lesson plan is the appropriate one, appropriate to students’ ability. It means the lessons plan should cover all of the different students’ ability in receiving the materials. Previously, if I make a lesson plan I tend to focus only to how the learning process could build students’ conceptual understanding and what is the method that will be applied so that it’s becoming an effective teaching. But after becoming teacher assistance, I realize that there are some cases that influence how the learning process will be going on. For instance, the prior knowledge, it really influences the students’ ability in receiving the materials in the next topic. I found that if students don’t really understand the previous topic, they tend to hardly understand to the next topic. Then, time management is needed to organize the activities that are planned because it takes a longer time in delivering those topics. It’s confusing enough to decide whether i should focus to the lesson plan or continuing to explain it until the students understand, and I consider that the students’ understanding is the most important.