week 6 reflection

On week 6, we had online class. The task was same activity that we did for week 5. It was pair work and my partner is Angela. We should chose a theme and integrate 3 subjects with one theme. Through this activity, I could know how integratin of subjects is important. When I teach something in the future, I need to prepare my lesson with cosideration of other subject's topic. For example, when I teach English to 2 year high school students and my topic is world history. Even though it's English class, World history should be handed in 3rd year highschool, therefore I shouldn's take the topic for my class. And when students learn something which can adopted in the other areas, they can learn more. I want to provide lifelong education to my students and I'm sure integration of subjects is major effection on lifelong education.

week5 reflection

In this week, the lesson was focused on Mathematics. Even though it’s not my major, it was related to my major and there are some teaching methods can be used in teaching English. The best way for students to learn mathematics is to experience problems that challenge mathematics, and the thought, habits of mind and actions associated with trying to solve them. I think as math, English should be also experience grammar problems and need to habit to speak English to improve. As math teaching should be both lecturing and problem solving, English also need to be like that. When I learn basic English, especially in grammar, my teacher lectured a lot, but at the same time, she gave me a lot of problems in grammar. Through solving those problems, I could feel and know the differences between grammar structure and I think through that process, I learned English faster compare to my friends who only studied lecturing. I liked the activity that we did for the first class, which were to calculate the percentage of coffee and the color balls thing. It was easy enough to handle, but I didn’t like the activity that we did for the second meeting for this week. It was really hard. At the same time, I was disappointed to myself because, actually I could solve that problem when I was in high school. Since I entered university, I’ve never studied math except for STATLIT and MATAPRE. I forgot all the methods and they ways to solve problems. It was kind a shock for me. By the way, I had fun to solve math problems because it's been a long time to solve math.

week4 reflection

In this week, the lesson was focused on the English which is my major. Because of the topic which is English, I could pay more attention in class. Through this lesson, I could know the importance of the integration of 5 macro skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Not only that but also, the importance of each skills. For the integration of macro skills, group work is the good activity to do. In group work, we can do role play. Role play is the good activity to integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Students need to read the story first (reading), and they need to write their own script (writing). When they present the play (it’s viewing already), they need to speak and the students who are not presenting will listen. When I become an educator, I will do a lot of group activity such as this which can integrate all the skills so that students learn more efficiently. Also for the activity, we read a simple story: a little incident. After reading this story, we made our own questions which are for pre-reading, while-reading and post reading. To create those questions, I could read more specifically and read many times. Honestly, while reading question and literal question are confuse but my pair and I could handle that. It was fun activity because I felt like I was a teacher who prepares some questions for my students.

week3 reflection

In this week, I’ve learned about lesson plan again but specifically. For education course, lesson planning is one of the important part and it guides educators how to go and how to procedure the class. As we discuss in the class, “failing to plan is planning to fail”. I really agree with this. To make a lesson plan, it’s not that easy but it is the thing we must settle. Sir. Jasper discussed the semi-detailed lesson plan and I learned it already. However, for the learning activities, I didn’t know I should contain expected student’s behavior answer for before, middle and end of the class. I knew I should prepare questions for the students, but I didn’t know if we need to guess what the students will answer. For the activity, I exchanged the lesson plan with Math major classmate and her lesson plan was quite different with mine. Usually I contain title, subject, faculty, objectives, materials, time allocation, teacher’s task, student’s task and lastly reference. However, math major lesson plan was different. The lesson plan that I got contains title, subject, faculty, objectives, materials, but not time allocation. It contained teacher’s and student’s task but the type was different from mine. Mine is like a direction but hers was dialogue type. She expected the answers of students and procedure the lesson with that expectation. I think this is very nice part that I missed. However I think, she should contain the teacher’s action just in case if the students answer differently with her expectation. For example if the teacher ask, the answer is yes. What if the student answers no? It should contain the different preparation just in case. On the next time, I had great seminar with Rom Metila. From her, I could know the specific things that is needed when I make a lesson plan. I learned that I need to write a lesson script for introduction to activities, directions for task, statements and so on. Also lesson plain should be reflected to variety and it should be sequence. Not only that but also seatwork should be first before quiz. I should check my student’s level through seatwork and if my students reached the level, then I can give quiz. However, the students don’t reach the level, I need to discuss the topic again. This was important to learn as a future educator.

week2 reflection

In this week, I’ve learned how frameworks for teaching the subject matter areas (of English, Math, Science, Social Studies) are constructed. Actually before I did the first activity for this week, I didn’t know we have those programs as CBI, PTCLA, CALLA and so on and so far in education in English. Not only that but also, I’ve learned that the components of learning includes viewing in 21st century. I only thought reading, speaking, writing and listening are the components of learning, but it wasn’t. Since I’m 21st century learner, and also as a future educator, I need to apply viewing in my study so that I could learn efficiently and I can teach well in the future. Also I could know that why the professors prepared those power point presentations. They are using 21st century methods.
When I did the activity one, our group had hard time to create our own group diagram. Before we made it, we should exactly know what the programs are. Honestly, the sample that sir showed us is little bit complicated and hard to understand but using the diagram we created, I could understand better and while making the diagram, it was easy to understand.

PTEACH2 Reflection (second)

On September, 20, 2010, we had third meeting on PTEACH2. In this class, we had discussed about teaching in an age of change. Since we are 21st century learners and also will become a 21st century educator, we should get a lot of information about this subject. We’ve learn how technology is applied in my education and the effectives from using technology. Technology helps in many ways in education. Since we use technology, our education becomes widely. What I mean is through internet, we get variety of information and not only but also we the sources from other countries’. For example, when I was 4th grade, my English teacher gave me an activity that write an email to foreigner and get the reply. Of course I should write it in English. Fortunately, I got reply from her, and it gave me another joy that I haven’t experienced before because it’s not easy to have conversation with foreigner. If I didn’t have internet that time, how was it possible to contact with foreigner? Technology makes it possible. Not only this but also technology makes a lot of things possible for education. After discussion, we did one simple group activity. Through this activity, I was surprised because I evaluated the system that I’ve learned when I was in high school. The objectives were we learn history, drama, poem and then essay. However, I learned differently when I was in high school. I learned poem first before drama. I haven’t doubt the system that my high school teacher taught me but through this activity, I found the mistake she had and I felt good because I already reached the level that I could evaluate. In the other day, we had simple discussion in concept process model and we had another activity. This activity was quite difficult. We evaluated the conceptual framework in English and it was hard to understand. Actually, before I did the activity, I wasn’t familiar with on cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), on content–based instruction (CBI, problem-based, task-based, and competency-based learning (PTCBL), cognitive academic language learning approach (CALLA) and so on and so far. Actually, since my dream is becoming English teacher, I should have known about those before I had that activity. Because of this, I tried hard to understand and get close with those methods. Thank you for giving me this new information that I really need to know.

PTEACH2 Reflection (first)

On September, 15, 2010, we had our second meeting on PTEACH2. In the first meeting, we discussed about the syllabus and Sir, Jasper, our professor for this subject explained how his lesson plan would be proceed. In the second day, we created the list that what subjects we have learned in PTEACH1. I was so surprised because I hardly remembered the discussion that I’ve learned in PTEACH1. Fortunately, Sir, Jasper simply reviewed the subjects, so I could get familiar with those topics before I learn new lessons. In this class, we had discussed about effective teaching, teacher’s role and classification of teaching methods. I was happy because since my dream is to become an educator, these topics are very useful and the things that I must know and I learn it now. I learned the things that teachers must mastered and provide for the students besides knowledge like teacher should be role model, resource developer, assessor and so on and so far. I’m also excited because we are going to learn the upgrade lesson than PTEACH1. I hope and I’m sure this PTEACH2 will help and show my way to go educator’s way.