BEING AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER

In the second session, we continued our last topic about effective teacher, but this time from thematic perspective.  We watched video about ‘is thematic effective or ineffective?’ From my discussion with my group, thematic method makes the material unfocused and students cannot learn one topic deeply. The combining subject makes students confuse because it is really full.

Then, we talked about teacher professional knowledge briefly. That is one of the principles of effective teacher. Basically, teacher must have wider knowledge than the students. Teacher is the expert one of the subject. Teacher also must up to date about what’s going on around them, that’s why teacher have to read oftentimes. Teacher also must have knowledge about the student’s needs. There are other abilities that teacher must have. Teacher is not the perfect person, but they have to realize that they are act as a role model of the students in class.

Student has some stages in cognitive process. It begins from the easier until the complex one. The stages were introduced by Bloom. The famous name of the stages is Bloom’s taxonomy. Here is the picture.

Teachers have to know about this stages in order to teacher can understand about cognitive process of students. So, teacher can give instruction and assessment appropriately to the students.

In the end of the session, we are asked to make lesson plan in simple form. Lesson plan also one of the important thing in teaching. In the lesson plan, there are indicator, objective, activities, and time allocation. Teachers have to plan teaching well. When I was in high school, My Indonesian language teacher always shows and tell about the objective to the students. So, students know about what we are studying for. Opposite thing happens with my civic education teacher, students have no idea about what we are studying for. I think he never see the lesson plan before he teaches the students. It was like we learn it because it is obligatory subject.

Planning, instruction, assessment, and classroom environment are the important area for students. Those areas are interdependent. Teacher must concerns with those, because those things can support students to learn and make teaching more effective.

From those knowledge, I’ve just realize that being an effective teacher is hard, because teacher also has responsible of the students. I have to learn hardly now and apply what I’ve learn someday.