DAY 2 (TEACHING EXPERIENCE)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Subject             : General Science

Topic                : Mitosis

Grade & Section: Grade 8 Anonas (regular section)

                          Grade 8 Nangka (regular section)

                          Grade 8 Granada (special section of art)

                          Grade 8 Guyabano (special section of art)

Date                  : January 23, 2019

Time                  : 7.30-8.30 AM (Grade 8 Anonas)

                           8.30-9.30 AM (Grade 8 Nangka)

                           12.45-1.45 PM (Grade 8 Granada)

                           1.45-2.45 PM (Grade 8 Guyabano)

TEACHING ACTIVITY

    I need to teach 4 classes in a day. My CT has given me a permission to teach a regular section to fulfill the minimum hours of teaching required by SeaTeacher program.

    To begin teaching the topic about mitosis, I used a motivation game “4 pictures, 1 word”. In this simple game, I showed to them 4 pictures and all of the pictures represent a word that related to today’s topic. They need to work in a group to solve the word. I found that the game was interesting and effective to attract student attention. But in regular class, especially the Anonas, I found that they tried to participate on the game, even that they were hard to guess the word (maybe because they were lack of basic knowledge to start the discussion, unlike the other classes). I found that “4 pictures, 1 word” was effective to encourage the student and to introduce them about new term.

The word "MITOSIS" that need to uncover by the students based on the 4 given pictures.

    I keep on giving them HOTs question during discussion. I found that the analogies that I gave them are effective to make them understand about the abstract concept of mitosis. They were very active on  the discussion. They gave me a lot of question to satisfy their curiosity regarding the topic. I also put a lot of real image of cell and chromosome under the light microscope and I found that it successfully attract their attention.

    I also gave them the short evaluation (in form of filling blank words) based on today’s topic in the end of the session.

RESULT AND IMPROVEMENT

    Several commentaries from my CT, including the things that I need to keep and improve for next teaching practice. My CT noticed that the short evaluation that I gave to the student is not fit the expectation of my CT. She told me that the evaluation that I gave to the student is fit for the summative test. She gave me a suggestion, if I am going to make short evaluation in form of filling the blank words, I suppose to give them only 5-7 blank words so the student will not get confused with the question.

    In the other hand,  my CT also pleased by my performance in mastering and delivering the topic, especially the way I encourage the student using analogy and enhancing the class participation at maximum level, beside of keeping on asking HOTs question, giving simple analogy, giving positive reinforcement, and class and time management. 

MISSCELANEOUS

• I found that the number of student in regular section is so huge and it surprised me (imagine a normal class size, approximately 30m^2 with almost 80-90 student inside)
• Sadly, I found a lot of drop out student in Grade 8 Anonas. My CT told me that it was the thing that become a problem in public school, especially in regular class
• The student were really welcoming me and try to speak several common salutation in Bahasa Indonesia

    These are several words I learned during encountered with the student in the classroom. Several words below is not Tagalog, but in Bisaya/Cebuano (common dialect used in Davao City). I have marked the Bisaya/Cebuano words with asterix (*).

• Dali* (hurry)
• Mabuhay (welcome)
• Mabuti (good)
• Malugod na tanggapin (welcome to)
• Magandang Gabi (good evening)
• Magandang Gabii* (good evening)
• Mahal (lovely one)
• Mahal* (expensive)
• Salamat po (thank you)
• Tawa* (laugh) 
• Ube (sweet potato)

DOCUMENTS

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