Climate Variable

Climate Variable

Desri Fitriana

Actually Climate Variable last meeting what we have learnt last meeting is the way to build a positive climate in the classroom to our students. It has some parts are order and safety (classroom as secure places to learn), success (when students have a chance in teaching and learning process), challenge (increasing students’ competence) and task comprehension (increasing feeling of autonomy and values).

 In the first week of SEP I got chance to observe Mr. G (my master teacher) taught for XI IPS 1. He taught about If Clauses (Type I-III). In the first time he had started the lesson, he directly gave “Bingo” Worksheet for all students. He did not explain more about those materials and did not give brainstorm to the students to know students’ schemata, because according to him the students have already known about those topics. He just explained and did that worksheet the whole of lesson, without giving any other materials, only “Bingo” worksheet and did it together with students until the lesson finished.

I saw his effort was to build problem-solving skill and focused on writing skill (grammatical skill) to his students through Bingo worksheet. Unfortunately, his way did not run well. Some of students did not pay attention to him, especially students who sitting in the back line. Even, there were no success, challenge and task comprehension of climate variables to the students, because I am not sure the students really understand about that topic even though the teacher pretends already.

So, for next week when my first chance to teach come face to me, I tried to implement all those things of climate variables (order and safety, success, challenge and task-comprehension) to my students. Although, at the time when I taught I have no idea about what climate variable is? But I realized that I already implemented all those things in my class before. When I started the class, I made a small regulation for them to be cooperative, be active and raising your hand if you want to ask something. I explained about my objectives to them before started the class. Then, I always begin through brainstorming activities to grab students’ attention and know students’ schemata about the topic. My way to made them give their best effort is giving challenging task to them. I mean gave them drilling exercises about grammar (because four times I taught, I focused on grammar based on my master teacher requests), it works, it makes them try to solve the problems and some of students asked if they found some difficulties. It makes them more acquire the lesson and have more understanding. Fortunately, all my ways that I mentioned above were run well for my four times teaching. In conclusion, positive climate in the classroom is important to create between teacher and students as a community of learners.

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