Sharing Our Experiences

“Experience is equal with acquire our understanding about everything ” it is my quote. On first day of 7^th week we have shared about our experiences during School Experience Program that is Teaching Assistance or Team Teaching in PETA course. I like that, sharing about experience when we taught and told my friends about what we have done in School Experience. So, we can share our knowledge to our friends. I think this program makes me more understand about how to make a lesson plan. Beside that I got more understanding about effective and aneffective teacher in learning process. If we comment about aneffective teacher, so I think we must know what the solution for it.

            We were discussing and sharing about our opinion each other, I like with my friend’s statement that sometimes the teachers are teaching with lecturing is more effective than  active learning but not really useful for the students. We know in mathematics, there are some abstract materials, so sometimes we must do lecturing. It refers to my master teacher in SMA 82, she wants her students can understand about the concept of material so she teaches by using Direct Instruction.

            I think everyone have their own teaching style. If there is anyone who has statement that “I usually teaching make discussion, presentation, discovery learning to my students, and that is can make my students understand well”. So, it will be someone who has statement like this, “It will be better to teach the students by lecturing and direct instruction”. It depends on individual teacing style . According to me, with those various types of teaching style will be okay if we can explain or make activity useful for the students. I prefer to use lecturer discussion when explain the material because I can see directly who has undenstand and not understand yet. So I can monitor the students but maybe the others will have different opinion with me.

            We can comment about the way of our master teachers to teach and what we have done during the school experience, whether it is effective or not. Like I said  that everyone have different style in teaching, if we said that the teachers not effective with lecturing but I think some of them  have their own teaching sytle that to make students understand. We  have learn  from PETA course and our experience how to make the effective teaching and learning process. Of course most of us could learn from our experience, with those experiences I can remember all the things for long time. Beside that from our experiences, we can improve our skills which are not good yet. As anticipation not only from experience but we can read from book, and the others.

            So, I learn many things from last school experience how to teach well. We can not judge which one model of instructions is more effective in teaching and learning process. Each of them have their strength and weaknesses. We can learn more and more from knowledge that we have got from our experience. Sure, that is my reflection from our meeting last week. What’s your comment?