The 21st and 22nd Days: Start Making Self Report

In this fourth weekend I started to make a self-report, this report is a task that I have to do before passing the deadline. Here are the points I have to fill in my self-report:

1.      School: General Information and Academic Administration

2.      Pedagogical Contents

3.      Teaching Plan

4.      Observation on Teacher(s)

5.      Teaching Practice

6.      Summary and Suggestions

I have told the five points above on my blog posts in the previous day are:

1.      School: General Information and Academic Administration (The 3rd day until the 6th day)

2.      Pedagogical Contents (The 7th day until the 8th day)

3.      Teaching Plan (the 14th day until the 15th day)

4.      Observation on Teacher(s) (The 9th day until the 13th day)

5.      Teaching Practice (The 16th day until the 20th day)

6.      Summary and Suggestions (Not yet)

So I will give you information about the 6th point:

Summary and Suggestions

1.      Purpose

The teaching practice aims to provide opportunities for students to gain experience, skill, knowledge, attitudes, and to be more confident for the professional in the future educator and also this program useful for stronger cooperation among ASEAN countries, the teacher students can learn about a culture, social habit and educational system in host country.

2.      Procedures

Orientation, Observation, Teaching assistant, Teaching Practice, Evaluation and Reflection.

3.      Outcomes

a.    The student's teacher can improve the knowledge, skill, confidence, experience attitudes in an educational institution in their country and abroad.

b.    The student's teacher gets to know the local culture and works culture in order state agencies that are expected to be an inspiration in creating a better system in their country.

4.      The challenges

a.     At the first time of teaching, there is a sense of awkwardness and tension when interacting with students in the classroom.

b.   The difficulty of creating a fun classroom atmosphere

c.    Language differences become the main obstacle when first teaching.

d.    Language differences also make it difficult to condition the situation in the classroom.

e.    Requires a long adaptation due to differences in situations, conditions, customs, and culture.

f.    The difference in teaching time in a single meeting with teaching time in Indonesia makes it difficult for the writer to share a time when delivering the material in the classroom with such a short time of about 40 minutes in a single face to face.

g.   Teachers really must be patient with various characteristics of students, especially with minimal language mastery sometimes students do not understand where the time is serious and where time is relaxed.

h.   Formulate teaching and learning activities, in this case with respect to the use of appropriate methods and learning strategies for the lesson plan results are made in accordance with the situation and conditions at that time.

i.    The absence of syllabus by the school causes the making of the lesson plan to be more or less following the rules of making lesson plan in Indonesia.

j.    The form of learning is so simple that making the lesson plan is so short and dense.

k.   There is difficulty in determining appropriate learning methods and models

5.      Overall Impression

a.    This activity as one step for the student as teacher candidate to know school activity with all problem, apart from teaching and learning activity in class.

b.  The one-month teaching practice has also given so much experience and insight into the practice of being a teacher.

c.  Intensive teaching opportunities make students more motivated to develop the materials, methods and strategies used in teaching. So that will arise teacher professionalism as expected.

d.   With the practice of teaching and learning directly and manifest to make students realize that teaching or becoming a teacher is not just enough to master the material /materials to be taught. A teacher must also be able to recognize each character of the learners so that in the way of delivering materials the teacher is able to choose and choose the methods and strategies to be used.

e.  SEA Teacher Activities has given the opportunity for students to apply and develop the knowledge and skills possessed in the learning activities in the actual situation in the school so as to provide the provision to become professional personnel and ready to enter the work world.

6.      Suggestion for Future Improvement

a.     It is expected for the implementation of teaching practice SEA-Teacher Project further in order to take into account the execution time longer than before for activities teaching practice SEA-Teacher Project is more effective for students.

For Students

b.   Before teaching should make a good preparation both materially and physically and mentally because it is very influential in the learning process.

c.    Able to maintain the good name of the campus by behaving politely, interact well with all the citizens of the school and carry out the task with full responsibility.

So on the 21st day and the 22nd day I started compiling the information I had made before and then I made it into a self-report. Enough for the 21st day and the 22nd day, I will give more information in my next blog post.