The Meeting after School Experience Program

Fifth Reflective Journal for PETA Course

After two weeks did school experience finally I went back to my regular activity which include go back to my academic activity, doing assignments and attending all the courses. Tuesday 1 November 2011 was first meeting with PETA course again. That day we did three kinds of activity.

 The first activity was experience sharing, in that session Miss Ine divided the class into four groups. I was in the first group which consists of seven members. We shared our experience to each other. That was so much fun and meaningful activity because beside I heard funny and interesting stories I also could learn many things from my friend’s experience. For example I learned about behavioral issues like student who are hard to handle and mentor teacher who is not quite friendly. Not only listen to the stories and laughed whenever funny events occur from the stories there were also lesson learn like how to overcome the obstacles in learning and teaching process.

Actually all of my friend’s stories lead me to reflect on my own experience because in the school experiences, I met a student who was hard to handle and I think he was quite childish for a senior high school student.  He keep do some activity to draw teacher’s attention and he just wouldn’t do the given assignment if the teacher didn’t accompany him. Until now I still couldn’t figure out how to deal with those types of student. I am wonder whether we as teacher should give those types of student special attention or not. I am afraid if give them special attention will elicit negative reaction from other students like envious.

After sharing experience the second activity was did group discussion on four types of model instruction and did gallery walk. Because my group was the first group we discuss about direct instruction model. When working in group our lecturer gave each member of the group different position like facilitator, recorder, illustrator, material manager and encourager. Each position had different job and responsibility. I think everyone was did the job really well. However actually I quite confuse with the encourager’s job description because in my opinion the encourager’s work is only as a ‘cheerleader’. I wonder if an encourager is really needed or not for a small group work.

 The third or the last activity was did reflective journal in the end of the class. Miss Ine gave us a paper and we were expected to write down our understanding about all models of instruction on it. Personally I think our last activity was good because through the journal I as a student could check my understanding on the lesson and the lecturer also could know about student’s level of understanding. In the future I think I will ask my students to write reflective journal too because it effective to check student’s level of understanding and could stimulate student’s high order thinking skill.