Actually, this is my experience in school observation program. I posted this story in this blog because I think this is connected to what i learn in Language Teaching Methodology.
That was my second time to observe SMA ** Jakarta. I had been there when I was in the first semester. Although I knew about the school’s situation, I felt nervous because in this semester, besides observing the class, I also had to teach. That was my first experience and I faced a situation that I never imagined before.
One day, my master teacher asked me to teach a class whose teacher came late at that time. I had no preparation. He only told me about the topic and the activities that I had to do briefly. At the class, I was delivering the material about analytical exposition while most of them making a noise and eating some food. They ignored me but when I asked them to do writing assignment with any topic they liked, they looked excited and asked me some questions about the text type and how to make it. I was glad to know that they actually had an inquisitive mind.
Some minutes later, the teacher came to the class and continued the lesson. Ms. D had a clear voice and did not deliver the lesson too fast. She was persistent in giving instructions. While she was teaching, I was standing at the back of the classroom and helping the students there to do the task but I was surprised when they shared their opinion about her. They showed me the textbook that she made which contained many texts that were hard enough to understand by eleven graders like them.
Ms. D asked a student to go to the front and read the text. Then, she said that there should have been some suggestions in the last paragraph. I frowned because as far as I know, analytical expositions only give reiteration in the last paragraph. If there is a suggestion or recommendation, it will be hortatory expositions. The worst thing was I had already told the students about that concept. I was afraid that they would be confused and might make the same mistake in the future. Ms. D also asked some students to change their topic to ‘traffic jam’, ‘global warming’, etc. It made them asked for my help again because they felt uninterested in the topic.
If I had to teach the same lesson with the same students, I would give a clear explanation about the lesson and provide texts with appropriate contexts or let them choose the topic by themselves. It is to show that we can talk about any topics to study. It is also important to provide a time for students to write reflections then submit it to me so I could make it as a reflection for myself too as a teacher. If it was possible, I would use a slide presentation with some features like pictures or sounds to show the example of the text type. So, they would not think that it is better to make a noise and learning process is boring.
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