Teaching reflection

 Meeting 1: 12 IA 2. 12 IA 1, 12 IA 3+4/ 18/07/2012

Consider: menganggap

Flick through: dibukaan hungkul teu dibaca bener

Intan: how you apa sih namanya, apa ya, how your way to learn the students in the class?

 How do you to teach the students in the classroom?

 

What is it?

What do you call it?

Propose: mengajukan

Deliver: mengirimkan, menyampaikan

Glance

Chaos: kacau

Fed up: muak

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Oke: Where do you live?

Cemetery /grave yard

Putri: what are your hobbies?

Bibah: your motivation to be an English teacher?

Silvy: euh what do you think about your family?

Nia: why you like English?

Why are you like English?

Why do you like English?

Because/ as/ since

Chaos: kacau

Feed up: muak

Prosperous;

If you asked me to response ………….. (judul). Well, I can say I agree/ disagree….

The reason I agree because:

1

Rare: jarang/ langka

Gushiani (ia3): may I know about your program teach?

May I know about your teaching program?

Rahmatillah (IA4): how to be a good speaker without grammar?

I need sleeping (makna pasif)

I need to sleep (makna aktif)

Exhausted

Chaos:

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I would like to response to (judul) by (nama penulis).

I agree that love and responsibility is important in human life. I have 5 reasons for that:

1.

But I disagree

REFLECTION:

The first meeting is done to make time used effectively. The first three days of the schooling time went by without any lessons given as school has not provided the schedule yet. School defended that the academic calendar has not given yet from the Regency official.

I decided to start teaching, as I believe grade 12 has less time than grade 10 and 11. Perhaps this shocked the students, but I did not think about it too much. In my understanding, the students were at school and their coming was for studying and receiving services from school NOT for wandering around wasting their time.

The first meeting should be with grade 12 science-2, then science- 1, science- 3 and science-4 respectively. I sent one of the students a text to inform that I would teach them. As I expected; the students were surprised for my coming. I got myself surprised too. I thought that the students had prepared themselves to study. But I was wrong. The students probably thought, as the first three day of the week there is what so called on Orientation Session for grade 10, the elders class thought there would be no class.

Most of the students of 12 ia 1 and 2 arrived, perhaps it was because the meeting started at the early time (before the break time) and the students were still at school. But not many with 12 ia 3 and 4, they said that they had already went home. Even one of the parents gave me a call informing her daughter had gone to Bandung to visit their grandparents to welcome fasting month together.

I gave copied article taken from The Jakarta Post entitled: Path to harmony: in search of responsible person by Jennie.

Before I started helping to make the article understood, I invited some questions from the students. Most of them were just sit still, no questions at the start. Then a student asked my hobby, my teaching motivation, my address. Considering this was my first meeting with the students, I could understand the ‘silence’ and ‘cold-look’ of my students. I tried to use mostly English. There are two reasons for this. First I wanted to show my students that they actually could understand English but they did not have the ability to use spoken English. Secondly, the spoken English I used is aimed to show them that Indonesian like me can speak English.

Then I started to help the students to understand the article. I translated them into Bahasa and told them what the writer tried to propose. I asked them some questions while reading the article such as:

–    After you read paragraph one, what is the main idea of this paragraph?

–    What words attract you?

–    Do you think that the writer is just an ordinary writer or she is very smart? Why you said so?

–    How did the writer translate the word ‘responsible”?

I also asked students to translate per line. Yet, they looked like very afraid of making mistake of translating. So I guided them again by helping them with new words.

Half of the article was understood. I asked the students to read the rest at home. Besides, I also asked them to be an active reader by giving response to the article. They may show their agreement or disagreement to the opinion provided by the writer.

I gave this assignment as they have four days to go without doing anything. I hope this task will help them to start become a good reader of English and at the same time I know their writing ability too.

I highlighted a question given by Rahmatillah (science-4). She came with a question like this: ‘How to be a good speaker without grammar?’

I kept quite for a moment I tried to find easy-understandable answer for that tricky question. For Indonesian as English learner and put English as a foreign language, the first thing the learner knows is grammar. It is like verb pattern. The learner must bear in mind if they want to say this or that, they must consider the tense. And this kind of learning, I do not really like (actually) as it often sends me into confusion and frustrated feeling.

But what burst from my mouth just, “just say whatever you want to say, do not think about grammar. People will understand anything you said.  Take an example –I go to Bandung yesterday-. That sentence is acceptable; you knew that the speaker went to Bandung the day before. So, just talk, ignore grammar’.

Perhaps what I said causes a little bit confusion as the students had fed up with the warning that ‘grammar is important and use grammar to make you speak good English’.

Theories of language (grammars) are a bit like the blind men’s experience of the elephant. à consider for a moment the experience of the six blind men meeting an elephant for the first time. One blind man felt the tail and declared that the elephant was like a rope; another felt the trunk and decided that an elephant was like a hose. Another, feeling the ear, felt and elephant was like an umbrella. Each blind man developed a theory of what elephants are like (Gerrot and Wignell, 1995: 4).

Why it is said a bit like the blind’s men experience the elephant. It is because each ended up with somewhat different perspective. And like the blind’s experience, theories of language or grammar are not inherently good or bad, right or wrong, true or false. Rather, grammars are validated by their usefulness in describing and explaining the phenomenon called language.

For the students, grammar helps to understand and produce texts, and grammar also shed light on how texts make meaning.

MC

 Assalamu’alaikum wr wb

 Dengan memanjatkan puji dan syukur kepada  Alloh, karena atas rahmat, kasih dan  karunianya,  kita dapat berkumpul di aula green hill untuk melaksanakan …… .               Dengan memohon perlindungan, keselamatan dan kebaikannya mari kita mulai acara ini.

Yth Bapak Kepala SMA N 2 Cianjur, tim…motivator, ibu/Bapak wakasek, wali kelas, dan siswa siswi sma 2 yang yang saya cintai dan saya banggakan.  Perkenankan kami menyampaiakn susunan acara hari ini.  Pertama pembukaan,  kedua, bersama-sama menyanyikan lagu kebangsaan IR, ketiga, sambutan2, dan keempat doa untuk memulai kegiatan.

                Hidirin, hari ini Rabu, tg 14 nov 2012, merupakan hari istimewa  sekaligus akan menjadi hari bersejarah bagi kami. Karena baru kali ini, SMAN 2 Cjr melakukan keigatan akademis di luar sekolah. Kegiatan ini digagas oleh kepala sekolah kita. Untuk itu, mari beri tepuk tangan yang meriah kepada Bapa Aep Suherman mmpd , atas gagasannya yang luar biasa sehingga pada hari ini kita berada di aula green hill.

                Semoga kegiatan ini nantinya menjadi agenda yang berkesan baik dan tersimpan secara tersendiri dalam hati kita masing2 terutama bagi para siswa siswi smanda. Karena bagi siswa siswilah kegiatan ini dipersembahkan sebagai perwujudan kasih sayang kami untuk mempersiapkan diri dalam  mengahadapi masa-masa menjelang  UN.  

Baiklah, untuk khidmatnya acara ini, kita lanjutkan acara ini dengan bersama-sama menyanyikan lagu kebangsaan Indonesia raya. Saya persilakan  ananda …..untuk mempimpin menyanyikan lagu kebangsaan Indonesia raya. Hadirin di mohon berdiri.

                 Termakasih, hadirin yang saya hormati, acara selanjutnya adalah sambutan dari bp KS, kepada yang terhormat bp aep sheman mmpd, disilakan untuk memberikan sambutan sekaligus membuka secara resmi kegiatan ini.

                Hadirin, , tibalah kita pada acara pokok, yaitu mmt.. sebelum acara pokok dimulai, marilahk kita bersama-sama berdoa untuk memohon keselamatan dan mendapatkan kebaikan dari kegiatan ini. Kepada IBu/bapak…kami mohon untk berkenan maju kedepan untuk memimpin doa.

                Hadirin, Alhamdulilah acara2 demi  acara telah kita lalui dengan demikian acara pembukaan kegiatan telah selesai. Saya sebagai pembawa acara,, secara pribadi memohon maaf apabila selama membawakan acar ada kata2 yang kurang berkenan.  Kepada pembawa acar pihak mmt, saya serahkan mik dan dipersilakan untuk mengisi acara. Terimakasih. 

Hubungan sosial Generasi Net

  Sosialisasi sangat penting bagi manusia, terutama bagi anak-anak dan remaja. Pada masa sebelum lahir generasi Y, generasi X, atau generasi Net. Anak-anak bersosialisasi denga tatap muka dan kontak fisik terjadi dengan sangat intens. Tapa muka dalam arti anak-anak bertemu wajah dengan siapa mereka berbicara, bermain atau berkumunikasi. Misalnya ketika anak hendak bermain ‘boneka-bonekaan’, mereka akan bergerombol bermain dengan anak seusianya di samping rumah. Mereka membuat boneka dari benda-benda yang ada disekitar mereka dan mulai bermain dengan ‘boneka’ yang mereka buat dengan alur dan topik permainan yang berbeda-beda dalam setiap pertemuannya. Ketika bermain pula, mereka melakukan kontak fisik untuk membuat permainan yang digelarnya terasa seru dan personal. Misalnya ketika anak tersebut memainkan sebagai ‘ibu’ dari ‘boneka’, maka ia akan bergandengan tangan dengan ‘ayah’ dari boneka ketika mereka sama-sama memerankan tokoh yang sedang mencari uang. (Uang yangmereka kumpulkan secara bersma-sama adalah dedaunan).

Sekarang, pada Generasi Net, anak-anak bermain dengan teman seusianya dengan sama intensnya seperti pada jaman sebelumnya. perbedaannya adalah mereka melakukannya secara virtual. Untuk memiliki teman baru, mereka mengklik ‘invite’ dan untuk menambaha teman menreka cukup klik ‘accept’ dari jejaring sosial yang mereka punya. mereka mengobrol dan berbagi pengalaman dengan sesamanya secara mendalam,bahkan obrolan mereka dapat diikuti (follow) oleh orang lain sedunia.