third reflection

During the school experience in SMA 44, I taught students with different characteristics. I came to the class and assured myself that everything will be alright. At first I came to the class, I greet them and did roll call. I asked my students feeling in the beginning of the class. Most of them said that they feel flat and sleepy because they just had exam of math.

                In the beginning of teaching, I told my students about the learning goal for that day. Hopefully, students’ awareness will increase by knowing the learning goal of that day. I also let students know about the agenda and the activities of that day in purpose they would understand the purpose of that activity which was conducted in learning.

                My students and I made some agreements to not eat during learning and respecting to the person who perform in the classroom. I could see students’ anxiety to perform in front of class. As one of students said that they rarely performed in front of the class and they were afraid of their friends’ mocking during performing. However, after making agreement about respecting each other, Students felt more relax and safe to perform.

                Seeing the climate in the class, I noticed there was one student who avoided the crowd of students. I tried to ask one student privately about that solitary student. Finally, I found out that student was a center of bully. Students in that class often tease and bullied her. At the end of learning, I asked to watch a video and grasp the meaning behind that video. Actually, the video tells about the impact of words for life and others. I told them to avoid bully as it has big impact for the victim mentally and bodily. Many Students seemed curious and interested with this intermezzo. Hopefully, they did not take it as a “blowingwind” but apply it in their life.

                I found the students had intrinsic motivation to learn English.They asked me the way how to practice English. There are many ways to learn English, I said that. For example, joining a course, playing games which has many vocabularies and spoken text as Instructions, listening English song by finding the meaning of new vocabularies and practice English with friends. However, I emphasis on the self-confidency to them. Mistake is a way to improve the ability.