6th Reflection by Yulia Sari Riyanti

As usual, I learned a lot of things from PETA class and in the last session I learned about the important things in microteaching that I have to consider, multiple intelligences, Bloom’s taxonomy and the left part of models of instruction, Differentiated Instruction and they are very important for me as a 21^st century teacher candidate.

I could not pull myself together in the last session, because I was so sleepy, so I have to say that I am so sorry that I did not really pay attention to Putri’s group when they were presenting the microteaching. The other way around, it was an interesting session because we, the whole of section H students did an evaluation of our microteaching together. We gave comments and suggestion each other, so we have known the lack in our microteaching that we need to improve.

In the evaluation, I found that mostly, the things that lack from the groups’ microteaching presentation were the assessment. There was not any assessment in our, especially my group’s microteaching. Now I have understood it clearly that in every activity that we conduct in the class must have an objective to be achieved and tell about it to our students and we have to monitor students’ improvement in learning through assessment in that activity. We cannot just put any activities without any purpose. There was also the lack of conducting microteaching in our own class, with our friends as the audience that we cannot be serious when we did the microteaching rehearsal. Even I know we have tried our best, but still, it was just like we conduct a usual presentation.

I was also learned about multiple intelligences, Bloom’s taxonomy and differentiated instruction. I have clearly understood that the nine multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner are used to understand that students have different characters and they are learning in different ways. I think teachers have to aware about this to integrate it into their lesson, so the students with different intelligences are accommodated to show what they are good at. Bloom’s taxonomy is the steps in learning that students have to achieve, guided by the teacher. The steps are remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating, so when students are already can create something new from the topic that being learned, it means that they are already master the topic. Once again, I think that the teacher’s job is not that easy.

Unfortunately, because of the sleepiness that I could not bear, I have not understood clearly about differentiated instruction. All I know was differentiated instruction is a model of instruction for students with special needs. The special needs students mean not only students with the physical or mental disabilities, but also students who have different interest and talents. I will explore about it more with my friends who take the DI course in the next semester later.

In short, I met my expectation in the last meeting. I have learned the missing part in my group’s microteaching presentation, multiple intelligences, Bloom’s taxonomy and differentiated instruction. But I think I need more examples of integrating Bloom’s taxonomy in the classroom. I hope in the next session I will learn about elaborating a lesson plan, because I still cannot do it well, and I guess that session is missed from the course’s schedule. If it is not about elaborating a lesson plan, I hope I will learn another things which are important for me as a 21^st century teacher candidate.