A good teacher is...

Name               : Ayu Astriani

Class                : TEFL B

No.                  : A1D2 10 032

1.      A good teacher for me is someone who have a strong personalities, can makes the learner understand what they are studying, will not feel bored and spiritfully continuing the study.

A strong personalities I mean here are responsible, sociable, tolerant, honest, fair, good looking, smart, proffesional, firm, hard worker, calm, comfortable, patient and punctual. For instance, a tolerant teacher. Teacher should give tolerance for students if the students for example, come late to class. A professional teacher, of course know how to treat this students. If the students always come late like that with the same reason, don’t give tolerance. If we give the wrong tolerance, it will kill their character. Such as the students who come late because of helping someone who get injured, if we don’t give tolerance, it will make them hate us or lazy to help others.

An english teacher should be able to explain what he/she teach. Not only explaining an understandably lesson, but he/she should make sure that the students uderstand. In this term, a good teacher should have a strong preparation (like, lesson plan, understanding of students characteristic, and can predict the possibility that would happen in the  class), good teaching process in the class, and justifiable evaluation in learning process.

In the teaching process, teacher should also insert joke in the learning process in order that the students will not feel bored. This joke also will make the students relax between the difficulties they get in the lesson. A scary teacher will not make the students to be smart, but it will drag out their willingness to study. They will feel stress even just the name of “english lesson”. They will be lazy and don’t care to the english lesson. Automatically, it will low their grade.

A good teacher is also a good motivator. Motivation, orally or writtenly, directly or indirectly, should be given. Teacher have the responsibility to tell the students what are the aim of studying, especially studying the lesson. Thus, teacher have to know exactly the aim of learning english and some advantages of learning it. By knowing those things, students will do learning with their own motivation (may be the motivation appear from their mind) because it is clear for them what are the purposes. Motivation should be given continuously to keep the spirit of the learners with a unique way to make them attrached and think.

2.      I will use cooperative learning in this situational class. I choose Think-Pair-Share for the first. The facilities in the class will not be used on the earlier week because they still have no chemistry, so we should build up the chemistry and minimize the shy feeling first. Using the equipments will be done after friendly situation created.

Think, Pair, Share, consist of three points. First, each student is asked to complete a task or answer a question that requires them to think. Second, each student is told to pair up with another student to compare, contrast or confirm the ideas from the thinking time. Students are also asked to adjust their ideas based on their conversation with their learning partner. Third, students are asked to share with the other students in the class about what they have learned during the entire activity.

For such the class, I design the lesson about easier theme, such as introducing self identity or about their hobbies, something about themselves. I will give them time to think and arrange about the words they would say. Then we pair them, it can be the person who sit next to them. Finally, we told some students share in front of the class.

Why I choose this strategy in learning as an effective strategies for such students? This strategy can minimize their shame little by little, step by step. By working alone at first, students are arranging their words about the theme. Of course for students, especially shy students, it will work. It is impossible if we directly ask them to come in front of the class, but we need steps to minimize their shame. By creating them into pairs, students will try to express their thought about the theme and share information. Because the theme i’ll give is about their identity/likes/dislikes, of course  it will make them know the characters each other. Pairing will destroy their shame a little. On this stage, they express their thought with a person who listen and comment, and also do it back to his/her pair. Finally, we ask them who wants to speak in front of the class and others should pay attention. On this stage, don’t point the students directly, just let them who wants to speak in front of the class. Because, on the first meeting most of them will be afraid to speak out. Don’t be worried if the students who speak are may be smarter or braver people in the class. Because the shy people need example, in order that they can produce sound in front of others. So, they will take an example from the braver people. Keep give a positive feedback to them, and also convince the others not to be shy.

For the next meetings, i will try to increase their  ability in vocabularies, because if they wants to master english, they should have enough vocabularies as the basic. I will use memorizing and drills methods. For some meetings, I will use the equipments like tape recorder for listening, projector for showing them situational conversation/prosedure, etc.