The Last Meeting of MMSEL Course

The Last Meeting of MMSEL Course

The previous meeting of MMSEL course was the last meeting of this course. What we have learned about MMSEL course was about Case study and Belief. The meeting has handled by students’ presentation. There are two groups presentation who delivered about case study and belief in influence motivation.

There are so many cases in the education that existed especially in the classroom such as disruptive behavior. There are so many causes that probably happen such as disability, lack of control, lack of creativity in learning, uncomfortable atmosphere, etc. disruptive behavior give negative impact in teaching learning process. It may distract students’ and teacher’s focus on learning in hence it may cause frustrating for the teacher in managing the class and convey the material.

Disruptive behavior should avoid in the classroom. As a teacher she/he should provided interesting activity, build relax atmosphere, and so on, so that students only focus on the learning process. Teacher also should have well-management of classroom. It may help teacher cope some problems that probably happen during teaching learning process.

In this meeting we learned about how to solve some cases that probably happen in the classroom during teaching and learning process. Besides that we also learned about belief in motivation which belief is influence motivation in learning.

Belief is important to our life because it can increase our motivation to do everything especially in learning. Belief is a cognitive idea we accept as true without necessarily having definitive evidence to support it (Eggen, cp.10). There are three types of belief which is influence motivation that is belief about outcomes (expectation), intelligence, capability, value and causes of performance.

Expectation is a belief about a future outcome that might be happen. It is sometime influence by their past experience. Students who usually succeed in past will expect succeed in the future and the opposite students who did not succeed in the past it will difficult to them to belief that they will succeed in the future. According to Eggen (cp.10) stated that designing learning experience that are in the students’ zones of proximal development and provide the scaffolding necessary to ensure success are the way that can be use by teacher to increase students’ motivation to learn for student whose expectations for success are low.    

Belief about intelligence is belief that intelligence is essentially fixed and stable over time (Dweck, 1999; in Eggen, cp.10). Belief about intelligence helps students to think and belief that they will succeed if they work harder or use more strategies, to increase their ability.

Belief about capability or self-efficacy is tending to belief on their capability in accomplishing a specific task. There are some factors that influence on belief about capability such as past performance, modeling, verbal persuasion (such as teacher’s commenting), and anxiety.

Belief about value is individual’s belief on benefit, rewards, or advantage that may result from participating in a task or activity. There are three types of believe value that is attainment value, it refers to belief that they can do well on task. Second is utility value, it is belief on activity, topic or course will useful for their future goal. Third cost, it is about belief on a consideration of must give up to engage in the task by any reason.

Next is attribution which it is belief about causes of performance. They belief that lack of performance cause by any reason such as lack of ability, lack of effort, etc. attribution influence learner in four way that are emotional reactions to success and failure, expectations for future success, future effort, and achievement.

Belief has big influence motivation in learning. It according to learner’s belief if they belief that they will succeed then they will motivate to increase their effort and prepare more strategies to achieve their goal. On the other hand, if they belief that they will not success then they will think about failure without any effort to achieve their goal to be succeed.

Source:

Eggen. Theory of Motivation. Chapter 10. Retrieved from Students’ handbook of Motivation and Management of Students for Effective Learning (2011).

The most succeeded management class ever

The Most Succeeded Class Management during SEP

During my school experience program, I think the most succeeded class management was in the last 2 days of my teaching in Global Prestasi school. I felt that way because I saw a good change on them. At the very first time I entered the class, they were so quiet and it was so hard to control them especially when I did grouping. The problem was, they did not want to be separated with their gangs because they tended to grouping themselves. Then, I made a class agreement and involved them to decide the rules. The class agreement is done and I also took my turn. I applied ‘RAR’ which stands for Respect, Active and Responsible for my class.

That was pretty affective for them hence every time they were hard to control I asked them to say a loud what is the rule in my class then they mentioned ‘RAR’ together. I tried my best to get them comfort when they learnt in my class. At that time, I was so afraid that I became subjective to several students or simply I could not give attention to every student in my class.

As time goes by, I realize that it was normal and no need to concern about that because ideally I will need more times to be close with them. Apart from that, I was so glad when finally they were mingle with the whole students in the class although it was only when they did a group work. At least, they were trying to do so than never. I think it was only the matter of time and in term of this case I already told to their English teacher that they were need to work in group more often.

Teacher and Parents Communication

Based on my reflection when I was in senior high school there was no communication between teacher and parents well. My parents met with my teacher only two times in one year, when I got raport in add and even semester. The rest of it? Nothing!, even for parents meeting like we have done in SSE is nothing. So, when my parents met my teacher, my teacher only explained my score not the whole process what I got along in one semester. Sometimes, the teacher suggested my mom to control my schedule of learn.

Based on what happened to me at the time. It was not effective to control students and build good communication between teacher and parents if they only meet second time in one year. How do our parents know their child’s progress if the teacher only gives information when “pembagian rapot”?. Good news, I think nowadays is better about communication between teacher and parents. Because I teach my students (private) and my students have “buku penghubung”. “Buku Penghubung” is a media for teachers and parents about students’ progress in daily and a lot of information. So, all assignments of my students wrote by the teacher there, if my students did something wrong, like he forgot to bring his book, then the teacher wrote:

 “Dear Mama Adnil (name of my student), Ananda Adnil hari ini lupa membawa buku Bahasa Inggris. Tolong besok dipersiapkan untuk dibawa ya”.

So, when I read all written communication between the teacher and my student’ parents is really good. So there is no miscommunication between them. The benefit of the parents is they knowing exactly what their child did in the school and knows what their child’s progress. It is good to apply in school nowadays.

effective communication teacher-parents

The Importance of  building good communication between teacher – parents

In my TEFL class, my lecturer once said “If the child is naughty, just look to his/her parents meanwhile if the students are naughty then just look to their teacher.” I think that is make senses since children spent almost every day in school and home. They will often face to face with their teacher at school and meet with their parents at home. In case, if their children have a problem in school then ideally the teacher will communicate it with their parents. It is because teacher is like parents’ partner in educating their children. However, to build such a good communication with parents is not an easy matter. Parents just like their children, they have different characteristics and the teacher should be able to deal with it. In another case, teacher also often face the parents whom are very busy and do not have a time to communicate with the teacher. In short, both of teacher and parents may not be rely their children on one party only. Both of them should be cooperative and maintain a good communication to control their children’s progress.