Newbie Teacher

This is my first lesson plan, so it's not perfect. My lesson plan about giving and asking direction. It is suitable for junior high school. The purpose of the lesson is for the students to know what is the right way to ask and give direction. The lesson also teaches the students about landmarks. The lesson will not use any physical things, like paper and whiteboard. All the teacher and the students need is a laptop or a tablet. Here my lesson plan: Asking and Giving Direction Topic: For student learns some basic directional skills, asking for directions and giving directions. This lesson starts with learning how to ask for directions and how to give directions to someone who has asked you. Aims: 1.        Know how to ask for directions and giving direction. 2.        Increasing vocabulary about direction. 3.        Develop student’s writing by writing a script of role-playing....

Couple weeks ago, I learned about collaborative writing using Google Docs. I actually familiar with Google Docs because I have used it a few times. I choose to be Content Facilitator. I shared the work with one of my friend who has the same job. What I do on this project are: 1. I made my personal opinion about the topic, which I also shared it with my teammates. 2. I suggested the thesis sentence. 3. I add some words that connected to my friends' paragraph to make the paragraph more easy to understand or add something that strengthens the idea. 4. I also corrected some wrong words. I think that this project is pretty successful because everybody worked and put some their idea. Also helping each other to finish the projects. However, I little bit didn't satisfied with some work because I think she didn't really do her job. Fortunately, she put some effort. In the future, I think I will  design a collaborative writing assignment for my student because I think that th...

Hello, everyone! Today, I would like to introduce blended learning. One of the methods that teachers can use for their class. I used blended learning to make a lesson about descriptive text. The activity is design to improve student's listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing. My student for descriptive text is 10th grade. Describing something is very important and being used in many writing occasion. By knowing how to describe something, it would make the writing more detail. The students will watch a video about what is descriptive text. Then, they will read some example of descriptive text. Then they need to write 2 descriptive texts about a place and a person from the pictures in the Blendspace. If they have difficulties with the vocabulary,  there are also some examples of adjective that they can use. The students should do it for 1 hour and submit it before the lesson ends. At the end of the lesson, there is an assignment that students should do at home, and they s...