Rahma Chintia Reski

2010120007

Classroom Climate

            In this reflection, I would like to reflect my experience when I taught in School Experience Program (SEP). For this semester, I was assigned to teach in Global Prestasi, Bekasi. I taught group A, perhaps it sounds little bit weird, because there was no grade system there because they applied SKS system. Further, I am going to relate my experience to the theory that I have got about classroom climate.

            Classroom climate consists of three variables. The first variable is order and safety, the second variable is success and the last variable is challenge. Order and safety here means that a classroom is a place where the students feel comfort and secure to learn. Frankly, to make sure that each student feels comfort during the class was incredibly difficult. It was because I was a new teacher for them at that time. We did not know much each other hence on the first day I spent almost one hour as introduction session. Although it was the first time I encountered that class, I could easily saw that the students did not mingle with the whole class because they tended to grouping themselves or what we called as ‘gang’. Then I came up with the idea to make an agreement and hopefully it would make them getting closer each other.

            The next variables are success and challenge. Success means the teacher is able to build self-efficacy among students. That was my concern first before go to the learning I process because I believe if I could build a good relationship with my students then it will be easier to hook them to be engaged in learning and teaching process. I started it with having small talk with the students. Although it was only small talk but it was pretty effective if we do that with all of our heart. The last variable is about the challenge. Challenge here means that the teacher can activate a competitive atmosphere among the students such giving a challenging task for them. Well, honestly I did that but it did not give effect to students. If I gave them challenging task then they would be lazy to do that. It was because they were lack of competitive feeling in doing assessments. Well, I could not do anything because four times meeting were not enough to make them do the assessment passionately.

            Overall, it is not a big deal for me. It just a matter of time to see them become super-students who will feel challenged as it goes with the challenging task given. They are all nice students. They just need to be motivated J