2nd week

On Monday at 7:15 we attended the flag ceremony. After the flag ceremony was finished, I went to the 10 Agriculture class and I met Sydney and the other students there. This morning they had a “Jingle Presentation”. In this kind of presentation they have to present their lesson using jingle. In Indonesia, we have this kind of teaching method also, but we don’t use this method because the “Jingle Presentation” isn’t effective for Indonesian students. 10 Agriculture had five groups, each group has seven or eight students. They used a different jingle but with the same subject. This class was so noisy and talkative.

            The second class that i attended this morning was a different kind with the first classroom. They were so creative when presenting their jingle, more creative than the first classroom. This class was so competitive between one to another students. They weren’t noisy, but I prefer the first classroom (10 Agriculture) because I like those kinds of students, usually students like these are not individual and a little bit challenging for me. But the second classroom also kind to me.

            On Tuesday I went to TAU school at 7:30 am. I went to 10 Agriculture, today they had another kind of learning method. It’s called “Manila Paper” method. In this kind of method, the teacher use the manila paper to explain the subject that he/she has to teach. So the teacher has to write down only the important point and then teacher have to introduce what is definition and the other information.

            This kind of method is a little bit better than the last method that the teacher use (Jingle Presentation). Because in this method the students are more interest than the last method. I can saw it from how serious they were memorizing the name of the meats. But it’s still not a good kind of teaching method, because the bad from this kind of method is the students are more likely to talk to each other when the teacher asking the name of the meats to the other group. I think the teacher needs to use the other kind of method that more enjoyable to learn, it’s like watching the video about the topics or use the power point, so it can be more fun. 

            On Wednesday I went to 10 Agriculture, the teacher still have the same method with the last meeting. But today it’s a little bit better than the last because the teacher used the picture of the subject. They were very interested with this kind of method. But the pictures were hard to be recognized because the pictures didn’t have a good resolution. I think the teacher have to put the picture into the monitor so they can see the picture clearly.

            There are many things that the teacher has to do for this classroom. The first thing he has to do is managing the seat of the students. He should place the talkative students on the front row and then he has to be louder when he talks because in one classroom there are forty seven students. And the second is the way he teaches the students. He has to be more authoritative with the students so the students can give more respect to the teacher. And the third is the attendance checking. The teacher has to check the absences of the students so he will know the students that aren’t attended the class. So the most important thing that the teacher has to do is managing the class, this is the important way to make the classroom in the good situation.

On Thursday i went to 10 Agriculture class, they had a group activity. They had to sell their product to the other student in TAU. Before they sell their products, they have to make their products first. They have to make the interesting products. They have to be creative on making their products to sell. Because the buyer can be more interested to their products and then buy their product.

Some student already made their products at their home. After they finished make their products, they have to go around the school to sell their products to the other student. Some group they sold their entire product and the other group couldn’t sell their entire products. I think this kind of activity is a good activity because if they want to be an entrepreneur they have to jump in to the real activity. So they can know what the problems in selling the products.