Second Reflection

Geby Devtiana Maryono
2011120001

            In the last meeting of PETA, Ms. Ine came late for the class. The class should be in 09.00, but then Ms. Ine came at 09.30. Actually it was okay, because we still had the class for two and a half hours. The class was started by discussing about the tematic course. In the class, there were not many students who understand and know what tematic course is. After that, Ms. Ine told us what tematic course is. Tematic course is the course that combine some courses while discussing one topic.

            The next activity was watching video. Ms. Ine showed us the video about tematic learning process. The teacher in that video really inspired me, because she could attract the students to be active in the class. First time after watching the video, I thought that the class and teacher were so effective. In that video, teacher showed the real rambutan tree to trigger students’ critical thinking. That was one the effective ways that the teacher did. The video showed the topic about environment, and it combine sains, social studies, PE and Math for that topic.

After watching the video, we had the group discussion about the video that we just watched. Ms. Ine asked us to discuss in group what was the effective way that the teacher did, and what the uneffective ways that the teacher did. In group, my friends and I discussed about the video. After discussing with my friends, I changed my mind about the effective class and effective teacher, because we found some uneffective ways that the teacher did. The uneffective activities were the group in the class and also the story telling. Besides analyzing the uneffective way in that video, we also discuss waht we will do if we were the teacher to make the class better. We thought that the class would be better if the teacher optimalized the group to have some activities in group, for example the teacher could make the game for the group. Besides that, the teacher also could make the students participated in the story telling, so the story telling process would be more interesting.

After discussing in group, we discussed in the class. While discussing in the class, I found some different thought about the effective and uneffective way in teaching. Besides that, I also could get some new ideas to make the class better if I were the teacher in that video. After discussing, Ms. Ine gave each group a case to be analized. Each group should discuss and also analyze whether the teacher in the case that we got effective or not. The cases were so interesting, because I could get the new things and new knowledge from the cases that we discussed.

From the last meeting of PETA, I could get so many knowledges how to be an effective teacher. I realized that being an effective teacher is not easy, because an interesting teaching and learning process does not always mean that it is effective. I also just realized that giving the game to the students is not always an effetive way, because sometimes the game cannot help the students learn something. It also does not mean that keep learning without interesting activity is effective, because everything should be balance to make an effective teaching and learning process.