Successful Learning? It's positive climate classroom

3rd - Reflection.

 

This was first class after School Experience Program. The topic that Bu Mima brought was Climate Variables: Creating a Motivating Environment. Before starting the lesson, we shared our experiences during this SEP that more or less related to the MMSEL subject. Positive classroom climate defines as atmosphere that both of teachers and students could help, study and complement each other in order to achieve learning goals. Positive classroom climate is also crucial in motivating students to learn within the classroom. In motivating students, there are others thing beside positive classroom climate such as self-regulated learners, teacher characteristics,  and instructional variables.

In order to apply positive classroom climate successfully, there are some variables that need to be had such as Order and Safety, Success, Challenge and Task Comprehension. Order and safety means the students could predict the learning, and then they also could feel secure and comfortable during the learning. Success refers to the students’ self-efficacy development. What teacher needs to be done to success the learning is questioning students before the learning (to reflect to the schemata) and provided scaffolding to the students before they do the task. Moreover, providing evaluative feedback is also helping teachers succeeding the lesson. Then, challenge is defined as the process of enhancing the feeling of students’ competence. While students could successfully finish their task also by doing scaffolding, it will indirectly increase students’ perception of competence. The last is task-comprehension which means students are aware about what they are going to learn, what they are expected to do, what benefits that they are going to get, and how important this lesson for them.

We have been provided some videos to be discussed within the classroom. I found some interesting facts from those videos. First, students really need to feel secure and comfortable because if they don’t, the learning might be failed and face some obstacles. Then, telling the learning agenda and objective are also essential to students included providing authentic materials to them and so on. I reflect to my teaching practices in my SEP. I found myself lack of challenge. It’s because of I reduce the level of difficulty then I did not provide enough examples (also scaffolding) to my students. Hope I could do better teaching in another teaching practice.