My School Experience

This week’s experience was very interesting. My teaching team has to do a real teaching for 45 minutes. At first, we were very nervous and confused. We felt like we were not ready to deal with this kind of situation. Luckily, our master teacher helped us a lot. They gave us the guideline so we can develop our lesson plan in a proper way.
When I entered the class, WOW….. I felt awesome. I tried to be calm. The master teacher said that we have to relax. We started the class with a greeting and we tried to elicit their attention. In the first 5 minutes, they don’t show any enthusiasm, but we tried to encourage them to talk. I said to them, “It’s OK to make mistakes, the most important thing is to try.” After they heard what I said, each one of them began to try to speak out. I thought to myself,” WOW…. It actually worked!” Most of the times, students are timid, so we need to encourage them to express themselves.

my team teaching

The next step, we gave them a short passage about Jakarta. My friend Arsy asked them to read together. Then we gave them some time to think about the main idea of that passage. Each of them came up with different ideas.
After discussing the passage, we got to the main subject, gerund. Arsy tried to explain on the blackboard. He delivered it smoothly, slowly and systematically, because teaching grammar isn’t easy.
In the last ten minutes, we wanted to know whether our teaching method gave a good impact or not. We tested them with a quiz. Septo divided the class into 4 groups. Each group will compete for the highest score. They are very excited in participating in this quiz. The students tried to answer each question as fast as possible. The questions are based on gerund. We wanted to know whether they understood what we taught them or not.

Quiz Time

We got a good result from this quiz. They were able to make proper sentences using gerund. Our teaching method works! After the class, we asked for a feedback from the students. They said that we could deliver the lesson in an interesting way. They understood what we were talking about. Then I asked them, “Is this type of teaching is quite effective for you to learn about gerund?” The students replied, “Yes, loved the way you teach, it’s new for us, giving a passage before you enter to the real topic, it’s very effective to elicit our attention.”
In conclusion, our teaching method works like wonders. Getting their attention through games makes learning English more effective. Giving them motivation also makes them feel glad and increase their self esteem and motivation.

We are the next generation

humble teacher :)