My Teaching Practice (Pt. 2: 2nd, 3rd and 4th teaching)

On my second teaching practice, I designed the lesson plan and I did many revisions. It is because I got some suggestions from my supervisor. My second teaching practice was on Saturday, March 9th, 2019. The topic I taught was Unit 9 (Relationships), Lesson B (I’m Really Sorry), Part 2 (Listening). This class has different characteristics from the pervious the one. This class is more passive than Wednesday class. During my teaching I felt that I did not conduct the steps properly because most of students did not give any response to the activity, such as they did not write while the listening section. This is also caused by my instruction was not very clear and I talked too fast, so the students did not understand what I explained. To deal with this situation, I need to improve my explaining skill by talking slower than before and choose the simplest word for the instruction.
My third teaching demo was same as with the class on Wednesday class. It was on March 13th, 2019. The topic I taught was Unit 10 (Living Your Life), Lesson B (I’ll give it some thought), Part 1 (Interaction). I already know the characteristic of the students. Until this point, I already know the appropriate activity for this kind of class. It also supported by the students already know me, so that I can adjust my teaching style for this class. In fact, I was still nervous because I have to do my best. Then this feeling affected my performance in the class. My voice was not louder than before, I was not excited as usual and I had unsmooth activity during my teaching. To deal with this situation, I need to improve my professionalism as a teacher by doing some rehearsals before I teach.

My last teaching demo was on Saturday, March 16th, 2019. Here I tried to do my best because this is my last performance here. I prepared my lesson plan and powerpoint slides a few days before the teaching demo. I thought about the appropriate activity which makes interest to the topic. My topic was Unit 9 (Relationships), Lesson D (Getting Advice), Part 1 and 2 (Reading and listening). Since reading to a text and listening to the audio are hard to design the activity, I need to think more in planning interesting activity. I also practiced a lot before I teach. My teaching demo was the last session in this class, so I need to think for the activity which wakes them up. Overall, I did my best in conducting this teaching demo but I need to improve more about my teaching skill especially in explaining skill.

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