English Teaching Plan

English Teaching Plan

            3 weeks left, thank god for everything, it went well. After conducting teaching observation on the first week and second week, I was conducting teaching cooperation which during this schedule/part has instructed me to have teaching collaboration with the cooperate teacher in the classroom, but at first before I started my teaching collaboration, I asked my teacher for the teaching plan used by her. She explained and shows me how to make appropriate lesson plan based on USHS rules, because the lesson plan here quite simple than in Indonesia but still the curriculum is used as the guidance. Next we were discussing about the material that I had to explain during teaching collaboration and my teaching experience including for my initial and final visit. The material was totally different since English is used as second language, it was quite challenging but I need to focus to make my lesson plan as complete and creative. The lesson plan should contain classroom activities and pedagogical notes, and is integrated with innovative activities. All of these elements are presented in the following parts:

1. Preparation

            Doing preparation about all the equipment needs before conducting teaching activity is really important in order to make the goals of learning achieved. Preparation also conducted to make teacher ready and be professional during the classroom activity which is to be conducted later, and there are some preparations must be prepared on the lesson plan as follow:

            a. Designing learning objectives, this term also known as the indicator of the lesson plan. Learning objectives must be created in order to know what scope of goals that will be achieved on the students to make them understand about the material will be given. Learning objectives prepared based on the curriculum which already knew the students’ needs. Designing learning objectives is the first thing need to do before making the material.

            b. Learning material and media. Deciding material and media used also need to be focused by the teacher, because material as the core of something that need to be delivered must be prepared well and also with the media as the medium or bridge of how the material will be transferred. Electing appropriate media is a must to be conducted at first.

            c. Preparing method, the using of method should be based on the situation and grade of lass. Students usually love with method that asked them to have creative and fun learning. Choosing appropriate method also really necessary to be written and memorized by the teacher in order to make the teacher ready to face the class.        

2. Introduction

            Introduction is the first component of teaching. Teacher will prepare the students physical and psychology in order to make them ready to receive the information will be given. On this case teacher must become able to read the situation faster to be able to apply concept of good introduction at first; also including for pray section, check the attendance list, and ask students condition to make them ready to learn and build good relationship between teacher and students. 

3. Motivation

            Giving motivation before teaching the material can be conducted by applying some activities. The activities can be brainstorming, the aim is to construct their cognitivism for the information that they had. A game or song also can be used as the motivation, how the teacher can attract student attention to make them curious and excited about the material will be given. Or another way is by giving a story relates with the material but the story must be packed on good and interesting one. The core of giving motivation is how the teacher builds engagement to the students to make them being motivated to learn, because teacher believes that by giving motivation students be more confident to face the class. 

4. Core activity

            Delivering instruction is the hardest part of teaching activity, teacher ability in communicating, demonstrating, lecturing, and managing the material is important to master. On this part the skill of teaching must strong and systematically arrange. Mastering the material also needed because on this part the interactions will be dominated by the teacher but still students are given a chance to do development. On this activity teacher proficiency on using media is important in order to create effective learning process, on this 21th century of learning teacher asked to be more innovative in teaching and able to master some scopes of technology. Furthermore, handle classroom management also important to make conducive activity in the classroom.

5. Practice

            The core of conducting practice is to make sure that students understand about the material given before. Practice can be in written or oral. And level of the practice must be given step by step from the easier to the hardest regarding to the students’ ability.

6. Appreciation

            Giving appreciation is important in every student’s efforts; appreciation is conducted to strengthen student’s engagement in the classroom. The appreciation should be meaningful and not too much. The easier or meaningful reinforcement that can be applied is by giving oral appreciation and star for good sttitude or even extra time for doing assignment. 

7.      Enrichment

Teacher is not only providing one or two explanation with its examples, but the more that teacher can give, the more students will understand about the material. Giving another relevant resource of learning will help students to build wide conception and how they can see problem or things from any other perspective. Teacher also should able to engage in reflection questions and encourage analysis through higher order thinking prompts.

8. Evaluation

            Applying a diverse question bank for written work and exercises or provide alternative formats for student work: written homework, journal, portfolio, group/individual projects, and student-directed research project is used to evaluate students performance after they got the information from the teacher. Giving evaluation has another purpose to receive feedback from the result of the evaluation and it can be used to do reflection for the teacher and improve their teaching ability and the way of giving instruction. On evaluation also teacher can assess student’s performance; scoring rubric must be prepared and shown. This measurement has purpose to see students improvement.

9. Reflection

             Reflection should be conducted after the learning process finished, the aim of doing reflection is knowing the strength and weaknesses of the learning activity conducted before. doing reflection also will help the teacher to improve their future teaching activities in order to help the students and teacher to deliver the material successful and meaningfully.

(I was giving instruction in the class)

(Students was preparing before the class started)