In the first meeting of the seventh week, one of my friends did the class teaching for 15 minutes. She taught about simple present tense. Based on her performance, I learned how to do the class teaching later on. She was confident, well-prepared, mastering the lesson, and having a good language control while teaching. Those are some good things which I should have in my class teaching next on. However, the topic which was taught by her was difficult for the first grade students in senior high school because she taught directly about the grammar. In my opinion, we have to teach the grammar indirectly by using texts. For example, by using descriptive text, while we are teaching about the language features of descriptive text, we can also insert the grammar lesson about the simple present tense. It will be nice both for students and teacher.
In the second meeting of the seventh week, I learned about the tips of classroom management. There are 25 tips which are helpful us.
1. Arrange the seating to help
ð So that the students can learn comfortably.
2. Stand up when we’re directing activity
ð It is important that the students can see teacher. Then, it can make them easier to understand what the teacher is saying.
3. Look at the students
ð It can help the teacher to check the students whether they understand or don’t.
4. Use our hands to encourage and direct students
ð The gesture will make the teacher’s instruction or explanation more meaningful.
5. Use the back of our hand to point
ð It shows the politeness.
6. Use pauses to punctuate what we say
ð If the teacher speaks “without punctuation”, students will be very confused.
7. Vary our voice
ð To avoid the boredom and monotonous intonation.
8. Keep our language to a minimum when students are doing something
ð The function is to make the students speak more than the teacher.
9. Don’t commentate
ð Any commentary we give should be of help to the students, and not used either to reassure ourselves or simply to fill up silence.
10. Don’t be afraid of silence
ð Silent can indicate that there is a balance between activity and quiet moments for reflection.
11. Don’t be afraid of noise
ð Effective language teaching means giving the students a chance to speak.
12. Use pair work to increase student talking time – even if it seems chaos
13. Use group work to increase student talking time
ð Group work must be followed by a general class activity when the result of the group work are reported to the whole group, and commented on by teacher.
14. Be explicit
ð Classroom instructions and explanations should be simple, precise, and explicit. It also means doing this in detail.
15. Don’t ask “Do you understand?”
ð Teacher can ask directly about the topic lesson to know whether their students understand or don’t by knowing their answers.
16. Don’t go ‘round the class’ if individuals can prepare particular examples
17. Admit our ignorance
ð To say the truth about the anything which teacher does not so that there is no misconception for students.
18. Consult colleagues
ð Ask anyone who can help us to answer the students’ question which we do not know.
19. Consult students
ð Ask the students whether they like the activities or don’t.
20. Demonstrate, rather than explain, new activities
ð Demonstrating reduces the amount of unnecessary teacher language.
21. Exploit real events
ð To stimulate the students into using the language naturally.
22. Divide the blackboard
23. Use the overhead projector to control what students see
24. Machinery will not solve all our problems
25. Expand, don’t clutter
In my opinion, those tips are really helpful for me to do my class teaching both for my micro teaching test and practice the junior high school students later on. It can be my guideline to be a good teacher later on.
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