Misbehavior and Effective Communication

Pupils caught kissing in school toilet, some students caught while sleeping in the school clinic when history class is in progress.   These are some cases that might some of you often heard from school, especially from students in high school. This misbehavior has become a common thing that happened in school and again, teacher has a big role in order to prevent these things happen in the school. but, before we go on trough the case and how to handle it, let’s we talk about the background that might become the source of the actual problem.

Teachers nowadays has to dealing with a bigger size of class, it means that they have to deal with a bigger amount of students that have different needs, cultural background, and also their individual problems. It clearly shown us about what are the teachers have to deal with right? 

In order to deal with misbehavior in school, teacher can use school regulation as the guidance. Teach them about what kind of consequences that they will get if they do those kind of misbehavior, then it has to be noted that teaching students about how to accept consequences from what they have done is not an easy thing.

If I reflect to my previous experience in my high school and SEP, the most effective way to deal with or prevent misbehavior that occur is by doing personal approach to the students. Teacher has many opportunities to get involve with their students at school, and they can utilize this opportunities and create a good relationship with them. Once teacher succeed in creating a good relationship with their students, it will make teacher be able to help them to guide and help them to solve their problems that might trigger misbehavior occur.

Parents-teacher relationship also has a big role here. Teachers not only need to create a good relationship with the students, but also with parents. A routine and effective communication between parents and teachers event not only can prevent misbehavior but also can help them to monitor the learning progress of the students.

Several things that have to be noted as a teacher to build up an effective communication with parents in order to deal with misbehavior:

1.       Analyze  the problem carefully, find out  Anyone who is involved in the problem (it could be another students, teacher, or may be school staff)

2.       Do personal approach to with the people that are involved to go deeper into the problem.

3.       Meet the parents, and be a good diplomat (it means that teacher have to be in the neutral position)

4.       And the last, try to create a win-win solution.

Those are all that I learned about how to deal with misbehavior and how to build up an effective communication in the last meeting of MMSEL class.

Effective Classroom Management

What do you think about a ship without a compass? Will it go to its destination? Even if it is possible,  it will take a lot of time or even the ship will get lost. That’s actually what will happen with a class that have a teacher with no classroom management skill, have a goal but go through and try to reach it in a hard way.

I think that analogy can describe how important a classroom management skill for a teacher is. There are several things that we have to put it in our concern in classroom management, Such as sitting arrangement, positive classroom climate, teacher-student and student-student relationship and etc.

If I reflect at my teaching experience in SEP, I feel that implementing an effective classroom management is not an easy thing to do in the classroom, Especially the one that we haven’t really know yet. Some students there are easy to manage while the other is not. Since there is my first time I teach them, and they know that I am only a college student in the fifth semester, and then it is getting harder to manage them.

Actually the most important thing that comes up in my mind based on my experience in SEP is the relationship between teacher and student. Because once we can build up a good relationship and teach them what we are expecting them to do and also find out how they want us to teach them it can create a situation where student respect us as a teacher and they also feel that their teacher is there for guiding them to reach the goals. 

Confusing Reflection about Classroom Opening

               First impresion is the most important thing for a teacher. It could ruin all your days a whole semester if you as a teacher and open up your first time teaching in a “silly” way. It should be noted that bad first impression happened with some of teacher, especially a new experienced teacher.

                In this reflection actually I want to state my confusion of how we should act out in a classroom opening especially in our first time teaching. Should we act out like a strict teacher? Or should we act out as a friendly teacher?

                Actually I have several thinking that push me to ask those questions. First, in my experience when teacher comes up in their first time teaching in the class as a strict teacher, there will be some student that will hate you most a whole semester, But in other side they will obey your direction, tasks, and rules. And the second,  when teacher comes up in their first time teaching in the class as a friendly teacher, there will be some student that will like you most a whole semester, but in other side they will easily played or cheated on you, because they think that you are friendly and will not get anger at them.

                It actually happen for sure in several clasess that I have been taught. And it makes e confuse how and what should I act out as a teacher in my class.

Positive Classroom Climate in 552 Words

               Talk about positive climate, I always imagining a powerful place where everyone inside always have a big amount of positive energy and spirit to do everything that they need to do. If only this positive climate can be created in a classroom, the class might create successful learners.

                Again, let’s reflect to my past experiences in my past classes. If i highlight it, there have been a lot of teacher that have taught me, and only some of them could made me speak aloud inside their classroom. In other class, i could only sit down and even I only felt like wasting my time for listening to an endless talker machine. At that time, I thought that it was because the teacher’s personality. But after learn about Positive Classroom Climate in MMSEL class, I change my perspective toward those experiences. It’s all more than that particular teacher’s personality, it’s a more complicated than that one.

                A positive classroom climate not only affected by teacher’s personality or characteristics. Even though we cannot deny that it has a big amount of affection to the climate. It’s also about classroom management, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, individual student-teacher relationship, environment, and even first impression in the first meeting.

                According to an article from University of Delaware, there are several positive climate skills to create a positive  classroom climate. They are:

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• Recognize individual differences
•   Learn names
• Arrange seating
• Establish expectations
• Make yourself available
• Encourage the students

Let’s talk about those skill one by one.

Recognizing student differences could be very effective to help us delivering our lesson in a better way that our student will be easier to understand. We have to prepare some variation techniques in teaching a topic in order to facilitate our student. Well, i think it will take more time to do our preparation, but it will help you a lot in delivering the topic.

Learn names sounds like a simple thing, but noted that by remembering and calling students name, could indicate that we aware and care of them. It can build up their extrinsic motivation toward you as the teacher.

Arrange seating is one aspect of classroom management. Variation in arranging seating might lure our student to interact with other students and become more active. Just feel free to modify as what we need in teaching our topic. For example U shape seating arrangement will be useful to be applied for a small discussion session.

Establish Expectation is about stating our expectation toward our students, stating ground rules of the class. Involving students to develop this rules will be very useful to keep them being responsible i n the classroom.

Make yourself available means that as a teacher we have to be there for our students. After class session is one thing that can indicate that you are available to be asked and it might make student feel more comfortable to come to you personally. It also can help us create a good individual student-teacher relationship.

Encourage your student! yups, it also and might be the most important thing that can make your class create successful learners. Motivate them so they can build up their own intrinsic motivation.

Those all are several positive climate skills that might help us in creating our own positive classroom climate. Keep motivate to keep them fight!

                 

Reading Resource: http://cte.udel.edu/publications/handbook-graduate-assistants/getting-started/positive-classroom-climate.html

                 

The Influence of Needs on Motivation to Learn

The Influence of Needs on Motivation to Learn

                In this second session of MMSEL subject with Ibu Mima, we discussed about the influence of needs toward motivation in learning. Each of us is motivated by needs, and Abraham Mashlow purposes his finding on motivation as hierarchy of needs that is divided into five stages. First is a biological and psychological need, second is safety need, third is belongingness and love need, fourth is esteem need, and the last is self-actualization.

          Each of these stages is need to be reached by every individual, started from the lowest stage then higher one and so on. Let’s we relate each of these hierarchy of needs to our students. At the beginning of the first stage, student needs to be able to fulfill their biological and physical needs. Foods, drinks, home, healthiness, sleep, and etc. once they can fulfill these basic needs then they can survive to start reaching the next stage.

                In this second stage, student will start to seek for safeness from their environment, and the most important safeness come from their family protection. In the next stage where belongingness and love needs should be fulfilled, relationship with other becomes more and more important for them. They need to be loved and admitted by people around them, and it becomes a motivation to step up to the next stage. In fourth stage, they will start to reach achievements in almost the entire thing that they are dealing with. These achievements then will build up their status, reputation and also awareness of their responsibility and once they can reach them all, it means that they have been fulfilled the esteem needs.

               

           Finally, after those four stages that our students go through, they come to the highest stage of hierarchy of needs. This is self-actualization stage, where they will develop themselves completely, because there’s nothing else that they have to worry about.

                Actually as a teacher candidate, we have to be able to identify where our students’ stage is. Then it will create a better opportunity to help them to fulfill what they need in their stages and also build up their motivation toward learning.

               

“Motivate to Keep Them Fight”

Learning is not a must, but learning is a need. It means that everyone have to take a part of this oportunity to fulfil their needs of knowledge. But, how if learning is not seen as a need instead of a burden?

This is actually where teachers have to take a part for their students and get involve to create students’ willingness in learning. Actually the key point is Motivation. as kathy has done in her class clearly shown us that the way she teach the class can motivate her students to get involve in learning process. She shown that every students can develope themself toward her lesson.

Let’s reflect about my experience in some lesson that i’ve been passed in my senior high school. When i was at highschool I do really hate some subjects not because they were so hard, but because the teachers made me so frustrated, boring, and unmotivated. The way they teach me was horible for me, punisment and some rough words were usual came up from my teacher. It was seriously killing me.

In other way, there was an “angel” existed there. She’s my English teacher, the one who always inspired me, not only teach about english but she also motivated us. Motivated and made me keep fighting until the end (National Exam, Graduation, and registration to SSE). She actually one reason why I chose English Language Teaching as my major, because I want to be like her and inspiring my students someday.