Teaching Plan #2

Week 2 was from 2/24 to 2/28. During this time, I once again taught all the seventh grade classes pointers on descriptive text. However, this week’s focus is on jobs. In order to build the student’s knowledge base, I decided that combing descriptions of jobs with connections to personality would be the best approach as students had just finished a week on describing personality.

Curriculum
This week is still part of Chapter 7 “Can you describe it to me?” of the Bahasa Inggris textbook. The main theme is descriptive text, but has gone from describing things, to people, and now to jobs. The main purpose to give students language ability to describe many common parts of life. However, Jobs are not explicitly given a large section in the book, and this lesson plan is based on a pre-made list of topics to cover created by the school and mentor teacher. I have adapted the base idea into the lesson plan you see above.

Teaching Plan
Once again the teaching plan has been separated into two days. On the first day, students will review some commonly used English words to describe jobs. I am sure many students know basic jobs like Doctor or Teacher, but the idea is to let them practice speaking them more. For the more advanced students, I have also included what are “new age” jobs, careers that have come from the advancement of the internet. Jobs such as “Influencer” or “Youtuber” have been included. This allows students to think about how the current world is thinking about jobs.

Next, instead of focusing on simply speaking English words, I’ve created a charades game where students will start connecting imagery and visualization with the words that they will need to remember. Again, the creativity of students for their actions of “new age” jobs will be highly important as this will create a prototype for their job schemas. Although I am sure the students will be fine with most jobs, I will be monitoring the validity of their charades.

Finally, I will be making students think about the impact of jobs on society. For example, Postman is one of the jobs I have included, as well as Bus Driver. These two jobs, while understandably low in prestige, should be considered by students for their contributions to society. As homework, students are made to connect this notion of social value with their own dream jobs in a writing assignment.

Day 2 is when I connect personality and jobs. Students will start thinking about what personality traits fit the jobs discussed in the last class, as well as what personality traits definitely don’t match. In addition to how jobs benefit society, this allows them to think what kind of person makes a job viable. Since students have done homework about the jobs they want to do, I start making them consider how good a fit they are for that job. Although we still talk about describing jobs, my goal is to make them think about careers in a more critical manner. Finally, students are introduced to “Office Worker”, a generic term used to describe a non-specialized worker that many will find plain. This pushes students to think about their own goals and future, and whether or not becoming an office worker is a good fit, or if they have a goal to work towards in order to not be an office worker.