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.

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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.

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Another Story of Aggression and Violence

            Nowadays, teacher, parents and students are facing another complex problem that often happened in school which is aggression and violence. Aggression and violence is a different thing. Aggression is kind of misbehavior but it does not injure other people while violence is more dangerous that aggression because it can injure the other people and destroy public facilities. I often watched news on television that reported about High school students who did brawling with another schools or even being involved in bullying case. That was a serious problem that can endanger students, teachers, parents and the entire stakeholder if those problems cannot be handled wisely.

            I had experience with those problems when I was in senior high school. My high school is well known as one of school in Jakarta which often did brawling. All the juniors (boys) have to join it otherwise they will be bullied by seniors. Brawling includes as violence crime and my school has a very strict rule about that. If there are any students who did brawling then they will be given punishment or the worst they can be expelled from school. Brawling is already part of tradition in my school. Another case was about bullying. It commonly happened among female students. In my school it was also became tradition where my seniors (girls) would do bullying to their juniors (girls) without any clear reasons. They were like morons because they bullied their juniors only because juniors were more stylish or even popular from her seniors. If they are caught by the teacher then they would take responsibility for their actions in front of the counselor teachers.

            In MMSEL class my friends presented a very tragic video about bullying that happened in US and in the end the victim died by doing suicide. From the incidents that happened around me, I got many lesson learnt. Teachers’ responsibility is not only to make students know everything that they did not know yet. Teachers, parents should be aware that recent incidents are pretty enough to make us reflect that smart is nothing without balance it with good attitudes and good moral. One of the solutions is the entire stakeholders should highlight the importance of affective during the teaching and learning process.

Rahma Chintia Reski

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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