6th reflection

Today, PETA’s class had a micro teaching from the last group and there was an evaluation session after that then in the last time we discussed about bloom taxonomy. The last group is my group, I got nervous during the micro teaching presentation. It has often happened to me if I must do a presentation in front of my friends. From my micro teaching presentation I have learned about how to attract student and engage them into the learning process. Actually I have learned about how to practicing the topic and theory that I have learned in the previous meeting, such as managing the class, creating successful learning, creating an effective teaching using model of instructional and so on. 

Based on the situation that happened during the micro teaching, I thought that my micro teaching presentation was not good, even my group has rehearsal before the presentation. May be we got nervous and students' responses were out of expectation then it made what we have planed did not work at all.

After presenting the micro teaching from the last group, ibu Ine made an evaluation session. Actually the evaluation session taught me implicitly, so I have learned about some factors which might happen when teaching. Such as sitting arrangement, it is very important to have a successful teaching. When I did micro teaching with my group we miss the sitting arrangement, my students (my friends) were sit freely. Some of them were sitting in the corner and got far with others. It has made us difficult to grab their attention. Because students were busy with their own laptop and their business, especially students who sat in the corner. And the new thing that I have learned is about students' responses. I just noticed that students’ responses are very important. In my opinion teacher might be confused if the students keep silent and do not give any response, it makes the teacher does not know whether the students understand or not. I have this assumption because I have experienced it when I did micro teaching. My students were very quiet and keep silent when I ask whether they understood or not. There were no responses and it makes me confused with what I should do at that time. My part in micro reaching was closing, and it is possible for me to do many things in closure such as reviewing, gave some quiz, asking questions about which part that my students still do not understand, and gave a brief explanation about the topic that have discussed.

From what I have learned from micro teaching, I have clearly understood about students’ responses. I think I could understand clearly because I have experienced it and I was thinking the solution. If my students did give any response I would approach them and give some questions. I think if I approach them, they would feel forced by me, then they would give an answer. Sometimes we need to force the students to have some responses, it is useful to monitoring their progress and evaluating strengthens and weaknesses in our teaching.

In my opinion there was no part that I did not understand, because there was no important topic to discuss so there were no limitation as a target to be understandable. Even there was a discussion about bloom taxonomy, in my opinion it is not necessary because I already got it in other courses. For me evaluation session is a flexible session because everybody could put their own perspective. So in my perspective there was nothing that I did not understand.

Today’s session was not interesting, it is gloomy. I felt everybody thought about what they have done in micro teaching. Just like me I have introspection, about my weaknesses and think about the solution. Even it is gloomy, it was useful because with evaluation  Ine could know the reasons behind what we have done in micro teaching. So ibu Ine could give suggestions for our problem.

As a teacher candidate, things that I got from today’s class are very meaningful. Because it things that happen after micro teaching is almost same with real teaching. So I could make it as my preparation becoming a teacher.

Before the class I thought, after micro teaching presentation ibu Ine would give a paper project as the last assignment and discuss all things that we have discussed before. But the fact told the opposites. This session was out of my expectation, and it is better that what I expected. 
For the next session I hope there will be games. PETA’s class has a long duration so I hope we have a break about 5 minutes to have games.