In this semester I have got 8 days for school experience. School experience for this semester is focus to be an assistance of teacher. Firstly, when I know that I have to observe Santa Theresia Senior High School, I felt nervous and afraid because I guessed that teacher in there is so clever and master in teaching. I felt like that because I ever thought that I can’t balance the teacher’s skill. Although I was nervous I still motivated myself to do this well.
During the school observation, I saw a lot of things from process teaching and learning of languages. I have observed two English teachers there. The first one is Ms. Margie. As she said that she only focuses in Listening comprehension. I saw that she used media as teaching and learning aid. She used English lab which has a lot of things like tape recorder. There were 40 tape recorders. I think it is good and effective because every student has one media and can be focus in listening. The second teacher is Ms. Johana. As I saw along the school observation, she also used media as a teaching and learning aid. She used a worksheet as a part of learning process. In that worksheet student can do their tasks and after that they discussed it together. I think it is good because if each student didn’t get worksheet, teacher has to write in the board first and it uses a lot time and add the ineffectiveness in the class. We can imagine, if each student didn’t get the worksheet absolutely they can’t discuss the material together.
Ms. Margie used digital media. She used internet in her class to get more information of English language. She also used LCD and tape recorder. I think it is the evidence that she used digital media. But after I think a loud about it, I argue that it was not effective. Why? Because according to my observation, when the student has come and they sit and Ms. Margie just play the tape recorder and keep the student to do their task in their worksheet. It was along her hours. After time is up, she didn’t explain even greeting to her student. For me, It is not effective because we can’t understand whether our student understand the lesson or not. Although Ms. Margie used digital media but she didn’t communicate with her students in her class. In Ms. Johana class is so different with Ms. Margie class. Although Ms. Johana didn’t use digital media as a teaching and learning aid but she could manage her class and communicate with her students. I saw that she explain first and then asked her student understanding and then did exercise and then discuss it together. She also made sure to her students whether they understand about the courses or not. I think her way and style in learning was effective even she didn’t use digital media.
If I were a teacher in the same case, I will use digital media as my media in my own teaching and learning process. For example, I will use facebook, twitter, moodle, podcast, kaskus, delicious and etc. Just to make everyone sure, I will teach differently. I will combine my lesson with information, opinion and argument that I get from internet and I will share it to my students. Of course they will be giving their response and it adds their knowledge and skill about language, politeness and way to giving opinion. I also will be compiling my lesson with games which is related with my lesson. From these activities I wish I will be much better in my future as a Digital Native English teacher.
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