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This is my true experience about classroom management. I felt that I had been success to manage my students when I did school experience program. The school gave a chance to teach social class in two weeks during this program. It was very excited for me because in my mind social class was very crowded and naughty. In addition on this, I thought there would be so many students who did not want to enroll my course. I would be so poor, if I imagined about it. However, I had to be optimistic and I should face my anxiety. I made some planning to teach that social class by making the timeline. It was my way to deal with conflict that I would face at that time. First, I planned to observe the students when they were studying in the class. Second, I interviewed some students to get the information about their interest by doing personal approach to them. Third, I came to the master teacher to find out their achievement. Forth, I designed the activity to teach English for them that was suitable and meaningful.

Those planning were released by some action that I have done. I met my master teacher whom I called Mr. Willy to ask permission for doing observation, when he taught English in the social class which I would teach. Fortunately, he allowed me to do it and I took the advantages to make notes about some issue which would influence my teaching and learning activity in that social class. Consequently, I knew the students respond toward English and their appreciation to the Mr. Willy’s teaching method. So, I could analyzed and understand about what students’ want in English learning. I knew the distracters or troublemakers in that class, but they could lead the other students to do something that they supposed to be done. In addition, I observed the room size and the sitting arrangement. Then, I though those aspects would help me at that time.

I have gotten the data based on the observation, but it was not truly enough. Consequently, I interviewed some students to conform whether my data analysis during observation was true or not. I did it by using personal approach technique. That is one of techniques to establish relationship between me as a teacher and the students. I did it in informal situation that was like conversation in canteen during lunch time and it also did in other places in outside the classroom. By doing the interview session, I got some extra information about the students’ interest. It would recommend me to provide the appropriate method and technique to teach them.

Observation and interview have been done and then I had to meet with my master teacher to know about the students’ achievement. It was important because I could know about their level in learning for each particular topic in English subject. In addition, it would be help me when I divided the students into group for some activities. There would be balance proportion in a group between the low level students and high level students.

Three aspects had been fulfilled and then I came up to the action plan to teach English for the students. I decided and wrote down the objectives and indicators for teaching English in my class. I prepared an appropriate method and technique. I found out the authentic material that would be interesting for them. I provided the aims to support the teaching and learning in the classroom. I constructed assessment tools which were synchronic with the objective that my students should be achieved.

Planning has already fixed and I would execute it. I came to the class and grabbed their attention by doing a warming up activity. It was called “Who am I? game. The purpose of that game is to introduce students’ name one by one, so I could remember their name and it could limit the distance between me and the students. Name could be a media to make an intimacy and a friendship. I knew their name, so it made me easy to communicate with them rather than I only called them “students”, “guys”, “kids”, etc. Next activity, I divide them into some groups by using color of blue, red, yellow, and green. I did it by pointing one by one of the students to make a balance proportion between low students and high students. I used cluster style for the seating arrangement. Next, students worked to do assessment in a group neatly. I was very happy because they followed the English teaching and learning activity. They could be managed because I had observed about the complexity in the classroom which was especially about publicness or I called trouble maker for this case. It made me to try to find the troublemakers who could distract teaching and learning in the classroom. Finally, I solve it and they respect to me. Finally, I finished my teaching in that class, before I closed the session; I gave them feedback and appreciate their work.

That is the most good management class that I have had during school experience program. I hope that I can manage my future class as well.