Observation in Teaching Method

CHAPTER REPORT

(Observation on the based on the teacher’s teaching method)

Submitted to fulfill The Final Assignment in TEFL

Handled by Ashuri M.Pd.

     Arranged by:

RIZKI IKA YUNI P.             11050 059

     The Fourth Semester (IV ^B)

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

STKIP MUHAMMADIYAH PRINGSEWU LAMPUNG

2013

 

THE EXCERPT OF OBSERVATION:

T          :           Assalamualaikum wr. wb.

Ss        :           Walaikumsalam wr. wb.

T          :           Dani, pimpin doanya!

Chairman         :           Let’s pray together! Pray begin!

T + Ss  :           (praying in unison)

Chairman         :           Greeting to our teacher!

Ss        :           Good morning, Miss! How are you today?

T          :           Good morning! I am fine, and you?

Ss        :           I am fine, too. Thank you.

T          :           Who is absent today?

S1        :           Rina sakit, Miss!

T          :           Sakit apa dia?

S2        :           Kemaren jatoh dari motor sama bapaknya, Miss.

T          :           Ohh. Kita doakan semoga cepat sembuh ya.

Ss        :           Amin ya Robbal alamin.

T          :           Ada yang tidak hadir lagi?

Chairman         :           Tidak Miss, cuma Rina aja.

T          :           Do you have homework, students?

Ss        :           Yes, Miss!

T          :           Okay, kumpulkan di meja saya ya. Tolong Deni, dibantu mengumpulkan bukunya.

Deni    :           Yes, Miss!

T          :           Baiklah anak-anak, sambil mengumpulkan buku PR, buka hal 51 dari LKS kalian.

Ss        :           (Doing what the teacher saying)

T          :           Pada halaman tersebut, ada teks narrative yang berjudul “Aladin and the Magic Lamp”,

sekarang kalian baca dan buatlah daftar kata-kata sulit dan carilah artinya menggunakan kamus. 20 menit cukup, anak-anak?

Ss        :           “Cukup!”, said some of students and fewer of them answered “Kurang!”

T          :           Baiklah, kerjakan dalam waktu 20 menit, sementara saya akan mengoreksi PR kalian.

Ss        :           (Doing the task. But 5 minutes later there were some of students were talking each other.)

T          :           Students, silent please!

Ss        :           Yes, Miss!

        20 minutes later

Iqbal    :           Miss, saya sudah selesai.

T          :           Wah bagus, berapa kata sulit yang kamu temukan, Iqbal? (while correcting the students’

homework)

Iqbal    :           Ada 20 kata, Miss.

T          :           Baik, coba  bacakan di depan kelas. Dan lainnya tolong simak apa yang disampaikan Iqbal.

                        (She was still busy correcting and did not really pay attention to her students)

Iqbal    :           (Read his unfamiliar list and also the translation)

T          :           Baiklah, you can sit down, Iqbal. Ada yang mau mencoba lagi?

S1        :           Saya, Miss!

T          :           Ya, bacakan di depan kelas.

S1        :           (Read her work with bad pronunciation but the teacher did not seem notice that.)

T          :           Anak-anak sekarang kerjakan soal yang ada di bawah teks narrative yang berjudul

Aladin and the Magic Lamp tersebut. Bagian 2 dan 3.

S2        :           Halaman 51-52 ya, Miss?

T          :           Ya, kerjakan dalam waktu 30 menit.

Deni    :           Buku tugasnya, Miss?

T          :           Oya, tolong dibagikan! Sudah saya koreksi PR kalian. Hasilnya kurang memuaskan.

Tolong di rumah banyak  belajar sebab kalian lebih banyak di rumah daripada di sekolah,

mengerti?

Deni    :           (Came in front to take the students’ book and then distributed to his friends.)

Ss         :           (Doing the task but some of them are talking to each other, and there were 3 boy students

walking around to borrow dictionaries from who brought them.)

T          :           Walking to the students and said, Kenapa kamu jalan-jalan sedangkan yang lain

mengerjakan?

S3        :           Pinjem kamus, Miss.

T          :           Makanya kalau ada mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris, jangan lupa bawa kamus, mengerti?

S3,4,5  :           Ya, Miss.

T          :           Okay, yang bawa kamus bisa bergantian dengan teman yang tidak bawa. Lain kali harus

bawa kamus semua, mengerti?

Ss        :           Mengerti, Miss!

        30 minutes later.

T          :           Okay anak-anak, waktunya habis! Kumpul tugas kalian di meja saya sekarang dan kalian

boleh keluar kelas, istirahat.

Ss        :           Yes, Miss! (Almost of them were looking for another friends’ work and they seem like

would finish their duty rather than improve knowledge by doing the task.)

T          :           Okay, that is enough for today! Tolong belajar lagi di rumah, mengerti?

Ss        :           Yes, Miss!

T          :           Bagus! Wassalamualaikum wr. wb.

Ss        :           Wassalamualaikum wr. wb.

THE ANALYZING

According to the excerpt, I conclude that the teacher was using Grammar Translation Method (GTM) because of the teacher was mostly using Indonesian while teaching the students in the classroom. GTM is a classic method that was used by teacher long time ago to teach English as the Second of Foreign Language. But it is not appropriate way to teach the students using this method in the globalization era, today. Because we can see from the excerpt above that the teacher could not transfer the material well. Besides, the teacher only gave assignment to spend the study time rather than make it more useful by teaching them effectively. It seemed the teacher do not have good enough ability and skill to teach because the teacher was only using LKS as the main source.

As I know, there are many methods or techniques when teach the students to make the study time becomes more lively and cheerful for both, the students and also the teacher. Here I am really regretful for what the students experience in the English class every twice a week. Therefore I believe that the students will never improve their abilities and also their skills if the teacher does such a thing in every class that is taught by her. It seems like they do not have any chance to explore their minds during the English class. All they have to do is only listen to the teacher and do what she is asking for.

It is human when a teacher expects the best from her students, but the main duty of teacher is as a facilitator, a project manager, and also a motivator that should develop their ability in English. But in the real world, we face the different fact because there are so many incompetent teachers teach their students just to earn money, instead of giving their best for the students. In addition, today when the world growing faster with the high technology can be the reason why the teacher must be able to teach them with the modern way, or at least, they can create the students’ desire by transforming the classroom into nice atmosphere to study.

Based on the observation, I suggest for ourselves as the teachers to be or already the teachers to use various methods when teach. It is due to the students will more interest in the new experience and of course it makes them will learn and practice more about the material, even if they are out the classroom. Furthermore, we can use Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL) to make the students recall the previous knowledge and will improve their skills in English  more so that the students will active and will be able to do mistake to be corrected by the teacher, so the knowledge will stay along  because they learn from their own mistake. Another way to touch their interest is by using Total Physical Response (TPR) to make the class more attractive and easier to acquire the new knowledge. Thus, the classroom will be a place that will be missed by students and in the morning they will have more spirits to face their English teacher that always know what they need to study nicely.

Short Story

Thank You, Ma'am

by Langston Hughes

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1  She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a

2  long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about eleven o’clock at night, and

3  she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap

4  broke with the single tug the boy gave it from behind. But the boys weight and the weight of the

5  purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had

6  hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk, and his legs flew up. The large woman simply

7  turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down,

8  picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled.

9  After that the woman said, "Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here." She still held him. But

10  she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, "Now ain’t

11  you ashamed of yourself?"

12  Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy said, "Yes’m."

13  The woman said, "What did you want to do it for?"

14  The boy said, "I didn’t aim to."

15  She said, "You a lie!"

16  By that time two or three people passed, stopped, turned to look, and some stood watching.

17  "If I turn you loose, will you run?" asked the woman.

18  "Yes’m," said the boy.

19  "Then I won’t turn you loose," said the woman. She did not release him.

20  "I’m very sorry, lady, I’m sorry," whispered the boy.

21  "Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you. Ain’t you got

22  nobody home to tell you to wash your face?"

23  "Nom," said the boy.

24  "Then it will get washed this evening," said the large woman starting up the street, dragging the

25  frightened boy behind her.

26  He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.

27  The woman said, "You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can do

28  right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?"

29  "Nom," said the being dragged boy. "I just want you to turn me loose."

30  "Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?" asked the woman.

31  "Nom."

32  "But you put yourself in contact with me," said the woman. "If you think that that contact is not

33  going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are

34  going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones."

35  Sweat popped out on the boys face and he began to struggle. Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him

36  around in front of her, put a half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street.

37  When she got to her door, she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large kitchenette

38  furnished room at the rear of the house. She switched on the light and left the door open. The boy

39  could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house. Some of their doors were open,

40  too, so he knew he and the woman were not alone. The woman still had him by the neck in the

41  middle of her room.

42  She said, "What is your name?"

43  "Roger," answered the boy.

44  "Then, Roger, you go to that sink and wash your face," said the woman, whereupon she turned

45  him loose--at last. Roger looked at the door, looked at the woman, looked at the door, and went to

46  the sink.

47  Let the water run until it gets warm," she said. "Heres a clean towel."

48  "You gonna take me to jail?" asked the boy, bending over the sink.

49  "Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere," said the woman. "Here I am trying to get home

50  to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you aint been to your supper

51  either, late as it be. Have you?"

52  "There’s nobody home at my house," said the boy.

53  "Then we’ll eat," said the woman, "I believe you’re hungry or been hungry to try to snatch my

54  pocketbook."

55  "I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes," said the boy.

56  "Well, you didn’t have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes," said Mrs. Luella Bates 57  Washington Jones. "You could of asked me."

58  "Mam?"

59  The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her. There was a long pause. A very long

60  pause. After he had dried his face and not knowing what else to do dried it again, the boy turned

61  around, wondering what next. The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He

62  could run, run, run, run, run!

63  The woman was sitting on the day-bed. After a while she said, "I were young once and I wanted

64things I could not get."

65  There was another long pause. The boys mouth opened. Then he frowned, but not knowing he

66  frowned.

67  The woman said, "Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was

68  going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasnt going to say that." Pause.

69  Silence. "I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son neither tell God, if he didn’t

70  already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through

71  your hair so you will look presentable."

72  In another corner of the room behind a screen was a gas plate and an icebox. Mrs. Jones got up

73  and went behind the screen. The woman did not watch the boy to see if he was going to run now,

74  nor did she watch her purse which she left behind her on the day-bed. But the boy took care to sit

75  on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner other eye,

76  if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted

77  now.

78  "Do you need somebody to go to the store," asked the boy, "maybe to get some milk or

79  something?"

80  "Don’t believe I do," said the woman, "unless you just want sweet milk yourself. I was going to

81  make cocoa out of this canned milk I got here."

82  "That will be fine," said the boy.

83  She heated some lima beans and ham she had in the icebox, made the cocoa, and set the table.

84  The woman did not ask the boy anything about where he lived, or his folks, or anything else that

84  would embarrass him. Instead, as they ate, she told him about her job in a hotel beauty-shop that

86  stayed open late, what the work was like, and how all kinds of women came in and out, blondes,

87  red-heads, and Spanish. Then she cut him a half of her ten-cent cake.

88  "Eat some more, son," she said.

89  When they were finished eating she got up and said, "Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy

90  yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my

91  pocketbook nor nobody else’s because shoes come be devilish like that will burn your feet. I got

92  to get my rest now. But I wish you would behave yourself, son, from here on in."

93  She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it. "Goodnight!" Behave yourself, boy!" she

94  said, looking out into the street.

95  The boy wanted to say something else other that "Thank you, mam" to Mrs. Luella Bates

96  Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the

97  large woman in the door. He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door. And

98  he never saw her again.