Teaching Practice for Teaching Plan #3

Teaching Plan #3 can be found here.

I was only able to use Teaching Plan #3 once due to time constraints on the course. However, I was able to use it on a total of 2 classes, giving it one trial run and one semi-refined run. As this teaching plan is simply a review of topics already covered, my assessment of it will be short.

Generally, a review teaching plan tries to go over what students should know already. In the west, students would be able to take out self-written notes to go over as the teacher speaks. However, Indonesian students are in an environment where taking notes while the teacher is talking is seen as disrespectful (this piece of advice came straight from my supervising teacher), thus many of them do not have resources to pull from again. It is then safe to assume that many students have forgotten what was covered and how to do it.

In the units I taught, I generally used a deconstruction bullet point format to illustrate ideas of Descriptive text. It was good to see that many students remembered how the general format was, but had forgotten the details. I had to very quickly run through all the ideas again, but students were generally quick to catch back on. Although this is a good way to think about English in writing, I wonder how well it will help them on tests.

The biggest issue I had with this lesson was the time constraint, more so than other lessons. Because I was set on a 70 minute limit to cover 3 weeks worth of content, I had to be sure my timer was set for 20 minute periods. However, the trial lesson definitely went over and I couldn’t cover the last unit. The refined lesson was much better, and students got a review of grammar, thought process, and vocabulary in the time limit.

Students being loud were once again controlled by hand gestures rather than words. It seemed to be more effective when they gave their own interpretation of what being loud meant rather for me to reprimand them. Sometimes, I gave them a chance to be loud, which seemed to help them concentrate for a slightly longer period of time.