MMSEL 3^rd Reflection

In 5^th semester I have to do school experience program as usual. In this semester I went to 44 Senior High School Jakarta for about two weeks. For additional information in this 5^th semester I should do 4 times teaching in classroom. As an English teacher candidate certainly I did teach English in the classroom. I focused teaching in one class only, XI IPA 2 (Science Class). So it means that I have done 4 times teaching in that class. I did not only teach English but also I observed students’ motivation in learning. This observation is related to several discussions in MMSEL course.

After attending MMSEL class, then I think over again about my class’s climate. Do I create a motivating environment? Creating a motivating environment is important in classroom climate. There are four climate variables. These are order and safety, success, challenge and task comprehension. Order and safety based on theory is a climate variable that creates a predictable learning environment and supports learner autonomy together with a sense of physical and emotional security. If I reflect to my school experience that I did not really sure that all of my 40 students felt the first climate. The reason is because I did not know how to measure it. In the classroom, when I talked to them they paid attention. Then when I asked some things to them they answered well. However they were not all 40 students did so, there were two or three students who kept quiet until the end of that class. What should I do to spread the order and safety climate to the class? I just hope that I have more time to stay there and make it batter.

The second climate is success. Success means developing learner self-efficacy. What I have done in my school experience was telling the students in the very beginning what we were going to learn. That talked about meeting’s goals. Hopefully by telling them meeting’s goals they would know what they were going to think and study. Certainly my explanation and questions should lead them to think beyond.

The third is challenge. For instance, when students complain about difficult of their tasks, effective teachers don’t decrease the challenge; they provide scaffolding to ensure that students can meet it. What I have done in my school experience to challenge the students doing works, I was packed it in activity ways. By doing grouping and competing groups I hope they felt challenge to do uneasy tasks. The last is task comprehension. It is learners’ awareness of what they are supposed to be learning and an understanding of why the task is important and worthwhile. In my opinion this is related to the second climate. I stated that hopefully by telling them meeting’s goals they would know what they were going to think and study.

Finally I realize that creating a motivating environment in classroom’s climate is a must. This runs everything we do in class well.