My Teaching Practice: Introduction to Southeast Asia

Procedures of Teaching

All the teaching process has been done based on lesson plan that I have been made before. In the lesson plan, there are some procedure to conduct a good learning process such as:

1. Preliminary Activities: Routine and Review 
2. Motivation
3. Lesson Proper: Presentation, Discussion and Analysis, Fixing Skills and Guided Practice or Application, and Generalization.

The first thing to do in class is an opening or preliminary activities like greeting, praying, checking attendance and the cleanliness, and review. Then start a motivation before start the main activity of learning. In the end of the class, do the closing like giving the students generalization and assignment.

Time Management and Organizing Activities

In order to have a good quality in teaching, one of the most important things is time management. Learning time for Social Study and Economics in BSU-SLS is just 60 minutes long. So I have divide the time for three activities of teaching. I put 5 minutes for preliminary activities, 45 minutes for the main activities (20 minutes of presentation and 25 minutes for discussion and analysis),  5 minutes for generalization and closing.

Problem Solving

To make the students understanding the lesson of social study and economics, give the exact examples is the better way to do. The examples must available in real life, and the students also familiar with those things. 

For example when I explained to the students about the climate in south east Asia countries, which is similar to each country, subtropical and humid climate, dry and rainy season. I connected my real experience toward the topic. I said that even though the southeast Asia countries located near the equator and share the same climate, but some countries have their unique climate that hardly to find in another country. For example in the Philippines a couple week ago, there was a typhoon and it was my first time to experience it. While in my country, Indonesia it's rare to have a typhoon but we do have the heavy rain also if the weather is very bad.

From that kind of 'real experience' example, the students can figure out the problem that happened with the answer. Even though with their module they actually can read all the information, the students still need the interaction between the teacher to them. They also need to interact with other students in order to develop their critical thinking skill within the discussion.

Classroom Management

When the teacher start teaching, teacher may stand in front of class with a steady position and explain the material with the loud and energetic voice. If the teacher's voice is low or weak, the students probably become sleepy during the class. The teacher also can walk to the back of the class and explain from there, or just passing by and stop near the students who don't listening. By doing that, the class will conductive and manageable.

The teacher while explaining or discussing something with the student should give a compliment to the students who participate in those activities. The teacher can also give the students 'positive motivation' and 'negative motivation'. When the teacher stand in the middle of the class, explaining the material and ask the students about the material, the student who can answer may get a compliment from the teacher, this is called by 'positive motivation'. Meanwhile 'negative motivation' is used when some of the students don't listening or busy with her/his own activity, the teacher may pat lightly to the student's shoulder and ask s/he to be quite please, or the teacher can just standing beside the student until s/he become quite and focus again to the lesson.

In the discussion part, the teacher should give the students chance to try, so they can participate in the discussion process. When the students ask questions related to the material or the lesson, the teacher can answer it directly or throw the question back to the other students so they can think critically and learn to solve a problem, then the teacher add some explanation to their answer in order to make them fully understand. 

Others

On this teaching practice, I used the Jigsaw method and gave the students a group assessment related to the topic using HOTS or Higher Order Thinking Skill, because they were already received so much information about every segments from each group. I also gave them an individual assignment to measure their understanding about today's topic.

I.             Assessment

Instruction: Fill in the blanks the words needed to complete the analogy.

1.    Asia: Continent ; Indonesia:                  .             

2.    Filipinos:              , Thais: Charming,

3.    Thailand:              , Philippines: Christianity

4.    Thailand:                  , Philippines: Eagle

5.    Philippines: Filipinos, Thailand:              ,Indonesia: Indonesian

I.             Assignment

In ½ sheet of paper, answer the following question.

1.    How could you appreciate the diversity of culture of the Southeast Asian nations?

PS: For my lesson plan of the demo teaching, you can open here or download it here.
For my module that I made for the student's discussion material, you can download it here.
For my power point that I used in this demo teaching, you can download it here.