6th E-Reflection of PETA

6th E-Reflection of PETA

Important aspects in teaching, Blooms’ taxonomy and Differentiated instruction

Febriyani Khasanah

2011120013

From the last meeting of PETA, I have learnt about aspects in teaching, blooms’ taxonomy and differentiated instruction. Actually for the first hour in this meeting we still continue the last activity which is micro teaching. After that, we did evaluation about micro teaching that we already done. In the evaluation session I realize that there are three important aspects in teaching that I never concerned before. There are objectives, activities, and assessment.

This meeting give me many things that I think it is important. I know that in teaching, we have to convey the objective either in the first or in the end of the class. The conveying objective can be delivered in explicit or implicit explanation. All this time, I think nothing of the importance of conveying objective. I also think that kind of assessment in teaching and learning is just definite in written assessment only. Start from this meeting, all of my perception about giving assessment becomes different because in fact there are many variety of assessment. Not only in written form, but also in observation. However, in assessing through observation, teacher has to make documentation that is written in lesson plan. Besides that, teacher has responsible to make rubric to guide the assessment. I try to remember deeply about the importance of rubric, because that is one of the weaknesses from my group when we did micro teaching.

Besides the importance of conveying objective, giving assessment and making rubric as a guide, the other important aspect that have to be concerned in teaching is the use of grammar. It becomes very important if we consider that teacher is takes a part as role model. So that, as maximal as possible teacher have to use correct grammar in giving explanation and example.

Actually the evaluation session after we did micro teaching is very interesting for me, because I learn so many things that useful for my teaching practice in future. However in this meeting I also met a part that I am not really understood, there is differentiated instruction. Even though I know the definition and the relation to blooms’ taxonomy, but I still confused what the differentiated instruction is actually. In my understanding, blooms taxonomy is the way to measure students understanding, and differentiated instruction is the way teacher deliver material with aim’s to make student understand.

Over all I feel satisfy enough for this meeting, because I can realize what the weaknesses of my group micro teaching. I also get new knowledge that is useful for my teaching life later time. However, I feel little bit unsatisfied with my lecturer explanation about differentiated instruction. I hope for the next meeting I can get more clearly explanation about differentiated instruction. I also hope that I will get another interesting activity that can increase my knowledge and improve my ability.