# 6 Self Report - Observation on Teacher

OBSERVATION ON TEACHER

            In the first week we had a chance to observe our cooperating teacher in his class. We had to observe everything that can be usefull for us, like the class management, the order of materials, the steps to deliver the materials, etc.

6.1.       Planning for teaching 

 Before entering the class, teachers arranged teaching guide in line with the curriculum. Therefore they also had to make the sylabus for each subject in each grade. This is an example of  from my mentor. 

The teachers' lesson were held following this sylabus. It's important to organize the sylabus first beforehand so teachers' can predict the allocation of time needed for each material. They also made the lesson plan according to to the sylabus to make sure the students would have an organized and tidy order of lesson.

6.2.       Preparing lessons and materials

In one meeting, there could be more than one sub materials, so usually there would be two until four objectives. For one material, teacher usually divided it into foundation theories, concepts, examples of application in daily life, and mathematical problem solving. So the prepared materials also would be different according to the parts. In concept and examples part, usually we need more media and equipment, because it would be easier for them to understand the topic when they can see the real event, proccess or demonstration, or object. Teacher use media learning like power point, and prepared materials for games and riddles which contained the objectives.

6.3.       Teaching in class 

     Based on the observation, my cooperating teacher mainly use 5E Model of Instruction which is mainly divided into five steps, Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate. But before the lesson start, we have to do the daily routinities like: prayer, checking the class attendance, and checking the rooms cleanness. 

As for the main activities, according to the 5E Model of Instruction, the teacher  usually starts by attracting students’ interest by giving them a game  that is still connected to the topic of that day, or some pictures and videos. Then followed by giving them simple questions or asking for their opinion about activities or cases in the daily life. Then there is also recall of the last meeting’s materials, that can be in a questions, or explanation. The teacher also has to be able to manage the class condition, because there many types of characteristics and behaviour, there are some very active students, but there are also some passive students. So, in order to raise the students’ motivation in the class, the teacher uses index cards, which is a card that contains students’ bonus points for their activeness in the class, for answering questions, lead the prayer, etc. For the explanation part, teacher mainly uses power point for the theories and examples in daily life. If the lesson need to draw something (like vectors and components of forces), sometimes he would combine both the projector and white board. Because the projector screen were placed in front of the white board, he would pull up the screen so the picture from projector would be displayed directly on whiteboard, students can draw the component of forces or vector arrows, according to the material.  In the elaboration part, teacher guides students to get their own generalization and conclusion of the topic, its mainly like a review about the problem that is given in the exploration part and making connections to the explanation part. This part also can be riddles or quizzes and of course the winner can get more bonus points for their index card. These processes lead the lesson into the final part that is the evaluation part. In this part, teacher gives assignments, which is can be in groups, pairs, or individuals tasks and the scores would be recorded. 

6.4.       Measurement and Evaluation 

After getting the students' scores, we record all of  them in the class record book. 

The way of scores' calculation and measurement can be different between subjects, but for Phyiscs, we used the Science's specific percentage weights which are:

• Written work                 = 40 %
• Performance task           = 40 %
• Quarterly assessment     = 20 %

The scores for each weights would be rounded up and then summed. Then the total score would be transmuted to the table below:

So, for example, if the total score is 84.76, then the final of that student would be 90. If the total score of the student is 73.27, then the student's final score would be 83.