New Finding, New Understanding

Forth Reflective Journal for PETA Course

            11^th October 2011 was the forth times I attended PETA course. Today learning schedule was not really tight because all I had to do is observing all micro teaching performance my classmate did. Today there were seven groups doing micro teaching excluding my own group because my group already did it in PETA previous meeting.

            At first I thought I will get bored and would instantly fell sleepy because practically I had nothing to do. But then my assumption was wrong, I could pay my full attention at each group which did micro teaching. One of reason was because their micro teaching is really interesting and it seemed like they have prepared all the teaching aids well (It made me feel a bit jealous because my group performance was not so good). The other reason was because the rest of class was assigned to guess about which model of instruction was used by the group that did micro teaching and also assessed their performance.

            Through observing at all the micro teaching performances I could get clear picture about how to teach in front of class with use creative ways. I also learned about how to choose a model of instruction wisely so it will be appropriate with the leaning objective. More than that, I also could get a picture about real classroom climate.

            In the end of today session Ms Ine summed up everything and gave further explanation about four models of instruction we have learned before. Form this session I discovered answers  for some problems and I also met new understanding about four models of instruction. I’d like to list my new finding in learning four models of instruction:

1.      I got basic understanding on models of instruction’s nature that models of instruction is the same with learning methodologies, what makes it different is only the matter of term.

2.      I finally discovered that the main difference of Guide Discovery model and Group Interaction model is the purpose of each model. If Guide Discovery model’s purpose stress on how to make student become an individual learner, Group Interaction model stress on student ability in solving problem in group

3.      I got to know about type on question in Lecture Discussion model.  Because to be honest it was rather unclear for me whether the type of question used in Lecture Discussion model is remain on LOTS (Lower Order Thinking Skills) or it could be HOTS (High Oder Thinking Skills). Today I finally knew that the types of question are depended on the need and learning objective itself. Highlight in Lecture Discussion Model is how teacher link the recent lesson with the older one.

That is all of my reflection on PETA material so far. I will end it with a unique fact I found out today after I observing all micro teaching performance my classmate did. They had tendency to use lecture discussion model or combining between lecture discussion with group interaction model (So did my group).

I am wondering about was this happened coincidentally or maybe it was happened  because there is tendency for new faculty member or new teacher to use lecture discussion model because it easier to maintain the student. For me, personally I prefer to use lecture discussion model combining with group interaction in teaching. So I can let my students interact with each other but still I have control on them, because the idea  that my class gone ‘wild’ doesn’t sound good to me.