The second Reflection Journal (PETA)

The second Interesting Meeting

The second meeting of Principle of Effective Teaching and Assessment was so interesting. As like what I guessed before, we were studying about lesson plan. Before studying about lesson plan, we watched a movie. It was about a method which has been applying in an elementary school. We could learn and evaluate the method for teaching and learning. Does the method good or not when we apply it in the classroom.

After watched the video, I knew how to teach with a good way and avoid the bad thing that I could do in the classroom. In that video, the students are invited by the teacher to be active and the teacher sometimes just to be a facilitator. Questions and answers are the way to assess the student. The teacher also invited the students to go to somewhere that exposure the natural sample. This teaching used thematic learning, we can call it integrated learning.

In my view, this method is effective, but there were something missing. When the teacher told story to the students, some of them were sleepy. It was ineffective way because the teacher did not invite the students into her story. The teacher also just paid her intention for some of the students; she ignored some of students who wanted to active, for example based on the video, there was a student showed the teacher a black rambutan but the teacher did not pay attention to him.

We did a presentation after having discussion with my group. I prefer make a group or works with the group which contains of people that I really comfortable with and care of me. When I worked with the group with somebody who did not respect to me, I felt uncomfortable with that group. Of course, I felt that I did not want to be there. It happened because I could not communicate with others easily. My wish, the lecturers give a chance to the students to make a comfortable learning process in the classroom by themselves.