Teaching Practice

1.1 Procedures of teaching

Before starting demo teaching, my coordinating teacher and I prepared the classroom to be used for demo teaching, lesson plans, and also learning media.

Learning begins by greeting the students. After greeting, the activity continued with praying together led by one of the students. After that, I took class attendance and counted how many students were absent that day. Before proceeding to the main learning material, there is a review of the previous meeting material, regular and irregular nouns.

In the learning procedure, there are 8 activities which have previously been described in the lesson plan :

1. Preliminary Activities

2. Motivation

3. Presentations

4. Discussion

5. Values Integration

6. Generalization

7. Application

8. Evaluation

1.2 Time management and organizing activities

Learning time in one period is 50 minutes. Due to time constraints, it is a challenge to convey material clearly and completely but in a short time. Therefore, I used the first 10 minutes to do Preliminary Activities and Motivation, 20 minutes presentation and discussion, and 20 minutes application, evaluation, and assignment. Luckily, the teaching demo that I carried out was completed and running on time.

1.3 Classroom management

The SSC Grade 4 class has the characteristics of students who are attentive to the teacher who is teaching in class. During observations and teaching demonstrations, it was not difficult for me to organize the class so that I could focus on the learning process. I just use the method of calling all students by saying the word "Students!" to get their attention.

1.4 Problem-solving while teaching and staying in the designated school

I didn't face many problems while doing demo teaching or staying at school. The only challenge I faced while preparing the teaching demo was preparing the lesson plan and learning media. The lesson plan is much simpler than the lesson plan in Indonesia but the details regarding the activities carried out are much more detailed, so I have to think about what activities I should conduct in the lesson plan and what I will do.

Apart from that, I have limited access to provide learning media in printed form because I don't have a printer. With the help of my coordinating teachers, Maam Wena and Maam Tantan, they helped me print the learning media that I used for group activities.