In the second meeting of PETA, we learned about
Thematic Learning. First, we watched a video about a teacher in elementary
school who teaches her students about environment. Inside the theme
environment, the teacher can teaches more than one subject which are kinds of
plants, family tree, and counting from one to ten. From the way the teacher
teaches, thematic learning consists of various ways to teach more than one
subject. From the idea of those three principles, I think it will be effective
to be used in learning because the teaching method will not only consist of
long explanation from teacher but comes from various ways that can make the
lesson more interesting.
However, those various methods way that can be used is
also depend on the teachers’ ability to grab and liven up the class atmosphere.
It will be just same if the teacher fails to grab the students’ attention.
Thus, it is the hardest part of being effective teacher. We may be able to
search and learn many type of learning, but we must be able to apply it well so
that we can make our lesson effective and be like what we have expected. In the
video, when comes to part of story telling, the teachers cannot liven up the
atmosphere so that some of the students are not interested and get sleepy in the
class. This is the challenge for us to keep developing our method of teaching
as a teacher. I realize that being a teacher is not simple. It is not enough if
we just learning through theory and just simply follow the theory without
developing our own style. I do not know very much about thematic learning
because honestly, I never got any thematic learning when I am in elementary
school or in the higher grade. So, I cannot really judge whether it is
effective or not. However, I think all methods have their strength and
weaknesses so it really depends on how we use it.
In group discussion that held by our lecture, we
should analyze some cases of teacher’s methodology in giving instruction in
class. Again, being effective is not only because we have the basic knowledge
to be one of them. We need to engage more to the our learning environment.
There might be misunderstanding happen between even the clear instruction to
the students’ response toward it. So, we must pay extra attention on engagement
with students so that our instruction can be understood well by our students.
It is not easy to be effective teacher. So, we need to keep learning to make
our teaching effective.
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yes Erma I am agree with you. Being an effective teacher is not easy, and I have some problem too.when the teacher didnt answer the student question and she less to encourage of her student.
BalasHapusthe engagement in learning process is also crucial for our students understanding of the lesson. the most important is we have to study much theory and can choose the best theory for our class right?
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BalasHapusYes, you’re right. The first thing that we should do is giving instruction clearly, so the students didn’t misunderstanding about what should they do. I hope we can be an effective teacher, although it is not easy.
BalasHapus:)
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