Third Reflection Umamah Umais

PETA’s Reflection for Third week

            Actually, last Friday I have prepared myself for micro-teaching with my group, but it could not happen because of the limitation of time, and misunderstood between us (lecturer and student). Honestly, I was disappointed because it wasted my time and I have to make another lesson plan and preparation, so it is double jobs for me. However, I learned some point that it was very interesting. I forgot about the title or the main topic but it referred to model learning.

            It could be interesting and could not. It was so interested because I studied in group and did jigsaw discussion (I do not know how to call this activity). I got group interaction model as my topic. It has so many contents that I have to read. However, I have not enough time to read all the contents. After I read my contents, I met other groups that have same topic with me. We shared our understanding and discuss together the contents. There are five essential elements in group interaction. There are face-to-face interaction, group goals, individual accountability, collaborative skills and group processing. Face-to-face interaction allows student to do sharing perspective and help student to know content in different way and to build their ideas. This textbook gave me a good example to understand what the group goal is about. In my mind, group goals base on the student effort to achieve their goals together. The example from textbook is basketball team. In basketball teams the each member work together to get team goals. Maybe individual accountability can measure by quiz and test. For collaborative skill has so many important skills student learn in group activities, like turn-taking and giving feedback. Student can develop and improve the interaction skill from this. Group process helps student or member of group to reflect the effectiveness of their group and to help student to know their contribution. . I made a conclusion that the aim’s group interaction modes is to help students to improve their social skill. Not only the conclusion, but from this topic I know what is role play for teacher in group, how to manage students in group, and what students do in group.

            The next activity that was so interested is sharing information or understanding to the first group. It was really interested, because I knew the other principles and model of instruction. One by one from us gave explanation and example very clear, because we related example of the principles and model of instruction to our learning in class. Like in my topic, I related the group instruction model with what we did at the time working in group.  I feel sorry because I did not understand about direct instruction. In my mind, direct instruction refers to teacher center learning because student is dependent with teacher. Student will not understand the material before teacher give explanation. In direct method teacher will not add more information if student is wrong. Teacher will just ask about students’ understanding without digging information deeper.  It is very different with lecturer direct method because in this instruction, if student is wrong, teacher will add a feedback and more information and teacher will add more information too for students’ understanding. In guided discovery, my friend gave me the main point. The main point is scaffolding. Through scaffolding word, I hope I will more understand, because now I need a scaffolding too to help me to understand the content of PETA course.

            From the last activity, I just think I can use not only one principle or one model of instruction but I can use all principles and model of instructions that suitable in situation of class and the content. I did not have expectation to much in this session or for next session. However, it is just simple expectation for next session.  In this session, I wish my lecturer give me more explanation and example to instruction model and principles. So I can identify easily the difference of principles and instruction model. For next session, I just want to understand the contents, not only understand but I hope I will try to apply in future as educator.