Dewi
Setiathi (Learning strategies)
Dewi taught about narrative text this morning. She
told the students what is being the general point in Cinderella’s story while
showing the pictures of it on the slide. The students were expected to make a
note when she was mentioning the series event in Cinderella’s story. Thus the
students have to full fill the missing list of the table given. What is being
“first”, “next”, “then”, and “last”. Finally she asked one of the students to
read her work in front of the class. Thus, in this first activity she used story
map as strategy. The second activity was sequencing story. She gave the
students a printed material which is told about Lake Batur’s story. In this
activity, she asked the students to read first before they write or draw their
understanding about the story in the missing sequence story’s table. Finally
she asked the students who chose drawing the sequence of the story to bring his
work in front of the class and show it to the other students. She ends up the
lesson by asking the learners to do the same activity in order make them easier
in understanding a story of reading text when they have the same activity as
this morning.
Arya
Bayu (Individual Learners Differences)
First
of all, Bayu had done a very good teaching simulation, he could cope himself
into the learning process along with the students through some interesting
learning activities under suggestopedia
method. Bayu taught the students to describe an animal which they like through
some pictures and also with Bayu’s illustration. This kind of technique is to
avoid an ambiguity while explaining since each student has different cognitive
level and also differ in capability in using the target language. Thus in the
teaching simulation, Bayu also provide the students some pictures of animal
which sticked on the wall and also the video of animals in the jungle to help
the visualisation for the students. And this kind of technique was very
eye-catching for the students and that was the best part to break their
boredom. Bayu also invited the students to play a game which related to the
material, that was how Bayu tried to cope with students whose differ in
personality traits and successfully all of the students were active in
following the game activities. The games also helped those students with
different learning strengths, styles and also preferences, like when Bayu asked
Yoga and Doder as the students who best in drawing and for some students who’s
good in speaking can help the drawer to illustrate the animal while Yoga and
Doder tried to figure the animal itself. And at the end of the game, Bayu
closed the class with bright smile covers all over the students’ face.
Dayu
Puspa (Teaching English for Young Learners)
At
the beginning of the lesson she asked the students what they are going to learn
regarding the pictures on the slide, “farmer”, “waiter”, and “writer”. Thus the
learner’s answer was “Occupation or asking someone’s job”. First activity was
asking the students to watch a video of a song entitled “people in a town”
while singing the song together. At the end of the watching section, she asked
the students to mention what jobs occurred on the slide. Since the younger
learner has short attention span, no longer after that, she moved to the other
activities. She gave the second video and asked the learner to do repetition
after the video mentioning a certain sentence of someone’s job. The next was
she involved the learners to deepen their understanding about “occupation
vocabularies” in a form of guessing game. The purpose is to avoid the student’s
boredom since they are easily getting bored. To enable the students to
socialize and do communication with their friends in the classroom, Dayu Puspa
as a teacher at that time asked the learners to move around and then ask the
job of their friends’ father. As a follow up, she asked one of the students to
report their conversation’s result. Finally, as the last activity, in order to
give the students chance to work together, she asked the learners to divide
themselves into five groups. Then she asked them to discuss what job the short
description would be. When they got the answer through discussion, the leader
of the group should look for the suitable picture which has been provided on the
teacher’s table and have to stick it next to the description of the job. After
that she dismissed the class.
