Chapter 3. Observation on Teacher in the Classroom

1.      Observation on Teacher in the Classroom

      

        The first activity i did in the first week according to the agenda having been set by seameo is observation, In this occasion, I observed everything about the school including how the school looks like, how they teach in the class, what technique they utilized to control the class, and the activies they usually do everyday. Observation in this regard is one of method in collecting the datas needed by observing and taking a note directly in the location to justify the research. Therefore, as the teacher was teaching in the class, i watched her way in teaching by siting in the back of the class and taking a note of any important informations i got in detail.

Mathayopm 3 is the class level i conducted observation in the class. The name of english teacher i observed in her class is Mom Kun. In the ban makkhaeng school she takes care of 3/5, 3/6, 3/7 and 3/8 class . Accodingly, i did my observation in 3/5, 3/6, 3/7 and 3/8 class. In her class, I have done observation many times to strengthen my observation report. In that week, i could do obervation since this school has done O-Net test which is a national examination for thai students conducted in the January, 2nd 2019.  

3.1  Planning for Teaching

Planning for teaching is the unual agenda every teacher has to teach the students. In thai, it contains the topics and the dates when the topics should be taught and finished before the time having been determined by education minister in Thailand. For one topic in thai, they usually devide it into three meetings to strenghten the materials they learn. Meanwhile, it is different with indonesia. We commonly deliver one topic just in the one meeting and for the next meeting they will just review the previous topc to remind the students again about that, and continue the next materials they have to learn.

3.2  Preparing Lessons and Materials

In preparing the lesson plan the teacher used Extra Access 3 book for the source of the meterial they are going to teach to the students. In this book, there are some topics that should be accomplished to teach in a year. Most of them are about grammar such as present tense, present continous, question tags,comparative degree and so on. In delivering the material, they also used some electronic media to play some videos or musics to boast ther enthusiasm in learning english. For the students the students were given Extra Access 3 Book specializing in doing exercise.

3.3  Teaching in Class

There are 4 steps when the teacher of ban makkhaeng school did her teaching in her class,namely:

·         Warm up

The teacher opened the meeting and checked the students readiness either physically or psychologically. After that, she gave the stimulation of what they would learn.

·         In the second until forth section in the learning process, i noticed that the techer used PPP TEFL Teaching Methodology as a method to teach the students in the main activity.

a        Presentation

It is an aspect of language in a context that students are familiar with. For example, the teacher gave the the formula of present tense when she wanted to explain about comparative degree.

b        Practice

In this case, the students will be bestowed an activity that gives them alot of opportiunities to practice new aspect of language and become familiar with it. In this regard the teacher gave some instruction or exercise to check their understanding by the guidance of the teacher. For instance, she asked the students to answer the question together with her.

c         Production

Allowing the students to find out the answer by themselves is the part of production. The teacher gave an opportunity for the students to do the exercise by themselves without the teacher’s hand.

·         Wrap up.

The teacher ends the class by drawing summarize and tell what they would do in the next meeting.

3.4  Measurement and Evaluation

For the measurement, especially for the multiple questions, they usually put a peace of paper  on the students’s answer sheet and gives black remark if they answer wrongly. After that they give the score in the right coner of the paper. As an addition, for the written evaluation, they would be done the excercises in the access 3 workbook that has been given previously.

3.5  Overall impression to the Teacher Performances

The performance of my teacher while teaching was great. She by using her funny characteristic can make the class more vivid. She can banish the students’ boredom by using some medias too. In order to get the students’ interest, she sometimes gives a gift for those who can answer the question correctly. As she taught the student, she can be flexible up to the situation.

3.6  Others

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