In this reflection I would like to evaluate my first performance on class teaching as the first midterm test. The skill that I taught was listening. The topic was about narrative. At that time, I got difficult to find the listening passage which appropriate to the level of senior high school student. I tried to search the passage on the internet and I got it in storynory.com which consists of a lot of stories for kids. I took one of the stories which titled Valentine.
I though that was an interesting story and appropriate to senior high school student. When I was teaching, at the beginning of the class the students were very enthusiast to answer my question which was related to valentine day but when I was playing the recording, I saw the students were getting bored. some of them said that the story was too long. It was my mistake because I played the recording three times which really made them bored.
At the end of the class, I received so many comments from the lecturer and also from the observers. From the comments, I knew that there were many weaknesses that I had in my class teaching. Most of the comments were about the difficulty of the material and some others were about the time management. Yeah..that time I focussed on discussing the exercise without looking at the time. Whe n the time is up I had not done the set clousure and I had to stop my lesson.
To tell the truth, I was a little bit disappointed but it did not make me down. i could learn from my experience to improve my teaching skills. I also realize that as a beginner teacher I should learn more and more so that I can perform better.
