Classroom Management

                Classroom management is a set of strategy for teacher to organize teaching. It can focus on maintaining students, time allocation for teaching, material for learning, space for teaching and planning. This classroom management is supposed to enhance students’ behaviour towards learning. As every teacher has different educational background, personality and attiude so that the classroom management that being settled is not the same.

            What is the importance of classroom management? Check this out:

• Building good relationship among students and teacher or students towards students
•  Creating good climate for students during learning
• Making students have sense of belonging as participant in the classroom
• Assuring students for safety during learning

Student’s involvement on teaching is the indicator of success classroom management. As if students are active and grasping the material which has been delivered, the learning process can be consider as successful. Creating group work can be a creative ways to maintain time and students outcomes. For example, teacher asks students to discuss in group as communicative skill.

Teaching and learning process are not always going well. There might conflict comes, whether it is among students or student-teacher. Therefore, immediate action such as communicating respecfully, expressing care, being fair and sensitive for what is going on in the classroom. Being caring teacher can be started from remembering students’ name, giving praise effectively, build possitive belief on students’ ability.

third reflection

During the school experience in SMA 44, I taught students with different characteristics. I came to the class and assured myself that everything will be alright. At first I came to the class, I greet them and did roll call. I asked my students feeling in the beginning of the class. Most of them said that they feel flat and sleepy because they just had exam of math.

                In the beginning of teaching, I told my students about the learning goal for that day. Hopefully, students’ awareness will increase by knowing the learning goal of that day. I also let students know about the agenda and the activities of that day in purpose they would understand the purpose of that activity which was conducted in learning.

                My students and I made some agreements to not eat during learning and respecting to the person who perform in the classroom. I could see students’ anxiety to perform in front of class. As one of students said that they rarely performed in front of the class and they were afraid of their friends’ mocking during performing. However, after making agreement about respecting each other, Students felt more relax and safe to perform.

                Seeing the climate in the class, I noticed there was one student who avoided the crowd of students. I tried to ask one student privately about that solitary student. Finally, I found out that student was a center of bully. Students in that class often tease and bullied her. At the end of learning, I asked to watch a video and grasp the meaning behind that video. Actually, the video tells about the impact of words for life and others. I told them to avoid bully as it has big impact for the victim mentally and bodily. Many Students seemed curious and interested with this intermezzo. Hopefully, they did not take it as a “blowingwind” but apply it in their life.

                I found the students had intrinsic motivation to learn English.They asked me the way how to practice English. There are many ways to learn English, I said that. For example, joining a course, playing games which has many vocabularies and spoken text as Instructions, listening English song by finding the meaning of new vocabularies and practice English with friends. However, I emphasis on the self-confidency to them. Mistake is a way to improve the ability. 

Second Reflection

When I was a senior high school student in the first grade, my rank was four. Although, I had a seat in front of the class surrounded by smart people.  My friend who sat next to me was the smartest and had the first rank. I started comparing my self and my friend, why does she can get first position and I could not?  At that time, I just realise I might not study hard and my brothers did not help me to study while my friend’s sisters are ready to help my friend. I thought, I could be better if I gave more effort for achieving first rank.

I still had chance to prove that I could be better to take the first place in second semester. I studied hard and often get along to study with my friend in her house. Untill the exam knocked the door, I felt a bit pessimistic to take first position. So, I set lower expectation, to have third position. Finally, time to take study result... I was suprised and shocked because I was still at position four even I did my best. There was nothing change. Since then, I just thought whether I am serious or not over a thing, the result just will be the same.

First Reflection

There’s story behind my fond in English subject. Long time ago, I was about 7 years old. I loved to learn new thing and had huge inquiry. I had two elder brothers. My brothers were so busy, going dawn for working and arriving at home evening. As weekend, they stayed at home and helped mom. They sang The Beatles songs while cleaning house. My mom was questioning about the meaning of those song as she only speaks Bahasa.

            My brothers love The Beatles a lot. They sangs it over and over again. At that time, I had simple minded that I do not know the meaning and it sounds strange in my ears. As my study level getting higher, I got English as new subject in the school. I was so excited to learnt it though I did memorizing many vocabularies. Seeing my excitement, my brother bought me many books with funny graphic for me. It helped me a lot to learn English.

            My Interest on English did not stop just at that point. I keep learning English and Now I am English teacher candidate.