February 29th, 2012

In the previous micro teaching class, I was chosen by my friends to be the first ‘victim’ of pretending to be a teacher of senior high school students. Actually, I didn’t have any preparation to teach in front of them in that time. Then, I decided to take that chance and force myself to teach them. Firstly, I came to the class and greeted the students. After that, I started the lesson by telling a story which was related to the topic that I’m going to teach. Next, I asked one of my students to come in front of the class and tell about his experience. After finishing his story I ask him to back to his seat and tell the students about the main topic of that day’s lesson. Because of my unprepared lesson, I was getting too nervous and confuse about what I was talking about. Suddenly, Mr.Prast said that I only had 5 more minutes to finish my teaching activities. Then, because I didn’t know what I had to do, I asked my students to sing ‘balonku ada lima’. It sounds awkward, I know, but I was nervous and unprepared at that time. Next, it was time to get some comments from 3 of my friends who pretended to be students. They said that I opened the class well, cheerful, and enthusiastic, but then they said that it was too much because I should be more serious in teaching. They also said that I’ve to be wise in teaching, act like what a teacher should be. After that, they thought that my song wasn’t related to the topic that I taught. Honestly, I realize about those mistakes and I thank to my friends who gave me comments. I hope I’ll be better and prepared well in the next ‘pretending to be a teacher’ activities.