Love Writing and The Proof

do you love writing?

are you sure?

what is the proof?

how could you say that you love writing but you never wrote anything

how could somebody called you as writer but you don't have any writing work

ehm

than you should begin to write whatever it could be

try to write anything possible

never afraid of writing something that you never wrote before

short story, poem, creative writing, free writing, diary, anything you want

i'll always support you 

love you as I love writing

Lovely Thinking

Looking at the star

Seems like looking at you

Starring at the full moon

Feels like starring at you

Enjoying the lake’s flow

As same as drowning into your silence

So peaceful

Full of beauty

Thinking of you is so lovely for me

The Fourth Micro-teaching Simulation

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. 

cigarette kills the whole family

cigarette

what is it?

it is a killer

it kills not only the smokers but also the family of themselves

you believe me. don't you?

it was happened to me previously

my father was a smoker

he couldn't live without a cigarette

everyday, every morning he asked me or my sister/ my brother/ my mother to buy the killing cigarette

we couldn't say no

we couldn't refuse him

when we refuse, we would be burned by his anger

we are as his children couldn't sit and see what he did

he threw up frequently

he cough almost everyday after smoking

we were wondering his health

we tried to tell him not to do those killing activities anymore

unfortunately he ignored us, he ignored the danger of being an active smoker

my mother yelled to him, tired of telling 

unfortunately, he kept being ignorant

till one day, he cough badly

suffering of threw up

don't know what happened

by his own decision, he decide to decrease his bad habit

he tried to smoke lesser than usual

till long enough time, he didn't waste more money buying such a suck cigarette anymore

he stopped smoking

my mother stop yelling

almost, the whole family crushed just because of a small killer called cigarette

Can I go?

waiting for you is useless

wanting you is a fault

I'm not blaming you

I'm blaming me myself

I used to love someone who does not love me in return

I used to admire someone that shouldn't be admired

It's always hurt

I kill myself 

killing my heart slowly 

Fiuh...

what did I say?

was it a complaint?

perhaps

I don't want to make complaints any longer 

I wanna go somewhere or anywhere I could

far away so nobody could not find me

could not feel my sorrow

unable to realize my gloomy feeling

I just want to be known as cheerful as bee

not the one who is fragile as a glass

I wanna go peacefully

I wanna walk harmoniously

can I go now?

I wanna go immediately

without any pain sticking on my chest

without any fear appearing in my eyes

I was thinking

the rain falls heavily

no way no chance to go back to Singaraja

the thunder screams out loud

frightening me who was afraid of cloud

here, I am sitting in front of my laptop

waiting for the rain to stop falling

time keep ticking on the wall

no sign it would be stopped raining

I was thinking

should I go to Singaraja accompanied by its heavy rain

or waiting for the following day coming

no wonder no doubt

I have to wait

till the rain came to its tiredness

Third Simulation of Pak Wage's Micro Teaching Class

Yoga “Authentic Material”

            He greeted the student at the beginning of the lesson. After that he directly asked about Pengerupukan and Nyepi day. How do the students know if pengrupukan would be holiday? Some students said that they know from the calendar and the rest of them said through information/ announcement board. Thus, he talks about announcement then. Using announcement which is authentic, he asked one of the students to read the announcement out loud and the following activities; he asked several questions regarding the announcement given orally.  Furthermore he distributed printed material of announcement to the students and asked the students to answer several questions on the slide. Since, the time was up, at the end of the lesson he asked the students to make their own announcement at home as a homework.

Reni “Critical and Creative Thinking”

            She opened the lesson by asking the students whether they have watched news or not yesterday then asking what kind of news they’ve watched for those who said yes. Moreover, Reni asked what their opinion about the news is. Then she explained what the expression used to ask opinion, how to agree and how to disagree with someone’s opinion by showing material slide. As the activity of implementing material ‘critical and creative thinking’, she asked the students to make group of three. Thus, there would be four groups in the classroom which each of them will represent certain country such as: Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia. She asked the students to give their opinion and state their critical thinking about drug abuse using the expression which has explained before. In addition, each delegation was asked to give their solution to solve drug trafficking issues.

Dinda “Alternative Assessment”

            Dinda explained about narrative text. Before went further to the example of its text, she asked the students what did they do last night; whether their parents told a story before going to sleep or not. She gave several pictures on the slide and then asked the students what story it would be about. It was about Malin Kundang. She asked the student’s prior knowledge about the story by asking “what is the climax of the story”. One of the students said “Malin Kundang was cursed by her mother into a stone”. Then further activities, Dinda asked the students to make a group of three, one boy and two girls if possible. The students have to think about modifying Malin Kundang’s story and at several minutes later they have to role playing it in front of the class. Three students came in front and did a role play by using their own words; one of them act as Malin’s mother, another one act as Malin himself, and the rest act as Malin’s wife. After that, she asked the other students to give their comment toward their friend’s performance. When Dinda thought it was enough from the student’s feedback then she gave her additional feedback toward the performer. Finally, at the end of the lesson she asked the students to make their own narrative text at home as an assignment.