2nd Reflection_Syaifurohman

For the second meeting of PETA class, I learned about Tematic Learning. Actually that was my first experience to learn about that topic. Ms. Ine played video about implementation of Tematic learning. But at that time I was little bit confused when I watched the video. The content of the video showed a teacher that delivered a topic about environment. The topic of the video was about environment, but in that topic there were three points. Those were about family, color, and counting number start from 1 up to 10. But the teacher explanation in the video was very confusing and unsystematic. Teacher just used one way communication and only focus in teacher center learning. The students were not given a chance to speak up or deliver their ideas. The session for the students spoke up just when their teacher asked them to answer the question. There was no discussion session for students.

I think Tematic is a method for teaching the basic level of the students. The appropriate participant of this method is the students of elementary school exactly first grade. My understanding about this method is a kind method for delivering the primer knowledge, so the students that appropriate for this method are the first grade of elementary school. Tematic method is not introduced with the focus course, but it is introduced by the topic. In the topic there are some focus courses such as Sport, Science, and Social course. That was my understanding about Tematic method.

The interesting activity in PETA course yesterday was group discussion. Group discussion was started like usual, I and my friends counted and the same number would be the same group. Ms. Ine gave me and my group a paper that consisted of the problem. The problem was about a woman that joined in a workshop with the theme “understanding”. In that activity a women was expected to write a reflection when she was in Junior high school as a student. The content of the reflection was about her understanding when she learned about the lesson. She was easy to memorize the lesson, but she was difficult to understand about the lesson, so in the last semester she got a bad mark. The other groups’ problem is about the wrong strategy of teacher when they gave the material, so they have to deliver the material to the students as fast as they could. I think only this problem that I still remember from other groups’ problem.

That problem made me confused and at that time I could not answer and gave the solution about the problem. I did have any ideas about the solution and also my group. Honestly I was confused to understanding about that problem. I think that activity was very useful for me as teacher candidate, because I could not predict in my future. Perhaps I will have a student that has some problem with that woman. So as the teacher candidate I have to aware about my students’ condition and students’ needed. For the second problem I think that kind of problem could happen, because the condition of the class that could not support the teacher when they deliver the material. The other prediction was the wrong arrangements of lesson plan. But I could not blame if that problem is pure the teachers’ fault.  

     I think in this session my expectation has been success, because in this session I can share about my ideas. I also can understand about the material in this session. But honestly, I was little bit confused when I try to understand the material of this course. My expectation for the next session, I expect I can understand easily about the material and I can share about my ideas. I think my reflection for this session has been completed. Thank you.