Reflection 3: My Classroom Climate in School Experience Program

Reflection: My Classroom Climate in School Experience Program

School Experience Program (SEP) is annual program per each semester in Sampoerna School of Education (SSE). In SEP, all teacher candidates in fifth semester have to teach four times in the school. In this time, I went to Global Prestasi School in Bekasi to fulfill my SEP.  In this third reflection, I would like to write about my classroom climate when I taught my student. Classroom climate is situation where the students and teacher could feel positive and safe condition to learn. Four types of climate variables that are able to promote students’ motivation to learn.

The first variable is order and safety. Order and safety tends to classroom as secure place to learn. When I taught my students, I started the class by checking their absent. In addition, I also made classroom regulation and rules. On making the regulation and rules, I asked students to take part on it. I gave them the authority to define it. Finally, they wrote respect and raise-up their hands before they speak up as rules in my class. Regarding to the order and safety, let students take part on making decision in the classroom is one of the example that could promote students’ feeling of secure in learning process. The second variable is success. Success means the teacher establish the self-efficacy of students. In my humble opinion, I applied this variable in my teaching and learning process. After decided rules in the class, I started the lesson by conducting small talk with the student. I asked them by using present perfect question because our topic is present perfect. Once they enjoyed the small talk, I told them about today’s topic.

The third variable is challenge. Challenge means increasing perception of competence. It means the teacher has to capitalize on the motivating characteristics of challenge by encouraging students to identify relationship in the topics they study and the implication as well. Taking into consideration, when I taught, I did not put this variable on my learning process. As a result, the motivation of students on solving the task is low. A long line with task comprehension, another variable of effective classroom climate. I realized, I did not make kind of task that could increase students’ awareness of what they are supposed to be learning and an understanding of why the task is important and worthwhile.

In conclusion, those climate variables are the ideal condition of positive classroom climate. As a teacher, we have to consider that on applying those variables is not a piece of cake job. Teacher has to able to learn and write a reflection from each process on applying those variables. I hope, by doing that teacher could find the strategy to apply them together in her or his classroom.