Get Classroom Management, Get healthy classroom

When I conducted school experience Program, I got chance to teach the students. This experience happened when I was in 3^rd, 4^th and the beginning of this 5^th semester.  I considered everything I needed before teaching including my classroom management strategies. It was one of the important things to get healthy classroom in which teaching and learning process run well.

From the teaching and learning process I conducted, I think the best classroom management I designed was when I was in the beginning of 5^th semester. At this semester, I got big percentage in teaching the students since I needed to teach the students individually from the beginning until the end of the program. At this semester, I taught for several classes. The best classroom management I applied was when I taught for class X3 at Regina Pacis Senior High School. At that time, I designed a lesson plan for topic Narrative text which focuses on reading and writing skill as what instructed by the master teacher.

There are some criteria in designing good classroom management. According to Lewis (1998) in Richards and Renandya (2008) said that there are three parts which should be considered in building classroom management: motivating students, managing constraints, and managing teacher’s role. In relation with teaching the students at class x3, I think I had given them motivation in learning narrative text by showing them a video or designing interest activity to make them active in the class. For managing the constraints means at that time I dealt with some difficulty which distracted me to conduct teaching for example there was a students who tended to distract other friends when listening to my explanation. However, I could overcome it by asking him to help me in spreading the hand out to his friends. He was smart student since he could understand my explanation and he could make good narrative story with his friend in pair. Managing teacher’s role means that as a teacher when I conducted teaching, I had power to control the students and to lead them to the right path. I had to be able to support them and to facilitate them to develop their skill in English. The students at that time were able to be active and to work in pair. I had never lost my attention to them by walking around the class to ask whether they had understood yet or not.

All in all, there are some Indicators the success of Classroom Management.  They are students participation in the class, students respect to each other, students understand the meaning clearly and students are able to construct the meaning or the answer when teacher questions to them. Furthermore, teachers are able to accommodate what students’ needs so that the objectives of the lesson can be achieved. Other things I got when I conducted teaching are the success of classroom Management depends on the level and characteristics, and classroom Management needs strategies to handle the students. Thus, it needs more practice in order to make teaching and learning process works well.

Reference:

Richards, Jack C., & Renandya, Willy A. (2008). Methodology in Language Teaching : An Anthology of Current Practice. USA :  Cambridge University Press