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....

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...

I do my first teaching experience last week. I used Nearpod as my application of teaching. The lesson is about Capital letter and apostrophe. Capital letter and apostrophe are very important in writing, without them a writing could be confusing. My lesson is for 5th grade. Even though that capital letter and apostrophe sound easy, it's turn out that people still got confused about it. For example, for capital letter, you should be capitalized every planets' names, but not for sun, earth, and moon, but you should capitalize it if it has "The" at the in front.Without the capital letter, it could be confusing for the reader. For example, surnames that have other meaning, like Brown, Lake, etc. For apostrophe, words that have -s/-es at the end of the word usually have plural meaning. Apostrophe also puts -'s to show that something belongs to someone. So, for example, a word like "Boys", it a plural form of "Boy". To show that the "Boys...

Hai, everyone! Have you heard about flipped classroom? A flipped classroom is a technique which teachers, mostly outside Indonesia, used to teach their children. Like its name, it is contrasted from Indonesian classroom do where students learned the subjects at school and do the assignment at home, but flipped classroom students learn the subject and got the assignment at home by video, and do the assignment at school. It is not common at Indonesia school, so probably many of you never experience it. Neither do I. To be honest, I don't know if flipped classroom will effective at Indonesia schools. It mostly because students will have a hard time to customize with the new teaching, but it would possible for elementary students, which mean should be applied to new students. It sure makes teacher's job easier and hard at the same time. It easier because they don't need to explain it again at school or students has something to do when they didn't come, but also it mak...

Hai! Have you heard Digital Storytelling? Digital Storytelling is like storytelling, but the differemt is you tell the story with a video. I made my own video and I had a lot fun with it. I used Adobe Spark. Like other tools, I introduced to you, it is a internet tool, so it's free! You don't need to install it, unless you want to use it in your iphone or ipad, you can download it in apple store. To use it: You can go to  https://spark.adobe.com/ Then choose Animated Video with Spark Video Then you can sign up using facebook or google or email. To start your digutal storytelling, you will be aksed to give your video a title, you can skip it, if you have not choose. If you have experience using microsoft powerpoint, it almost the same.  It has slides, and you can insert photos, videos, icons and texts. You also need to record your voice. Just keep press the red button with a mic icon on it. You only can record 30 seconds for 1 slide.  If you...

Before, we have learned about many Quiz makers like Kahoot, Quizziz, and Socrative. Today, we will learn new quiz maker, but this one is different than the last one. Why? Because this one you don't need internet as long as you had installed it. It called Hotpotatoes. Hotpotatoes is an app that you can install it on your computer and you can use it without internet. So, you don't need to open your browser to use it. This is the Know-how to use it: First, you should install the program at  https://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Scroll down until you see a box with "Download" as the title, and choose one that suits for your computer or laptop. Second, after you install it, open the program. The icon looks like this. When you click the icon, the program looks like this: Third, to make your own quiz, you can choose between JCloze (A fill-in-the-blank exercise), JMatch (A matching exercise), JQuiz (A multiple choice or short answer exercise), JCross (A crossword exercise...

Hello everyone! So today I going to explain something that really fun and useful. Have you heard about Kahoot? No? Okay, I'll explain about Kahoot. So, Kahoot is an online tool where you can make multichoice quizzes for free and you also can try answering other people quizzes. It's very easy and everyone can use it. How? Let me tell you how: First, you can register yourself at www.kahoot.com Second, you can make your own quiz by click NewK! button at the left side on the top. Third, choose Quiz. Forth, Give your quiz a title, description, and you can choose the audience and language. Then Click Ok, go at the right side on the top. Fifth, write the question and the answers. The last one, after you were done write all the questions and answers, you can save it and share it. You can try my Kahoot:   https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/40a4fa0e-3ca4-4b5a-94c3-ac7fc625eff9 You can answer it by reading this: http://www.storynory.com/2005/12/28/the-cats-elopement/ Free online q...

Being a teacher sometimes is a hard and stressful job. There are many things that make the work hard, for example: making sheet works, watched by the supervisors, having uncooperative co-workers, dealing naughty students, etc. Other that, dealing the class is not an easy job either. To make students cooperative with you could be a hard thing to do. Especially, the student did not take any interest in the subject. They would play with each other, busy by themselves, not pay attention, and disturb the class. We all, of course, have been a student before, and we all know it is hard to focus on the subjects that we didn't like. We will do other else to keep us busy or not bored. At the end, we would not understand anything about the subject and get a bad score in the test. I know that all of this back to the student themselves, but being a teacher we also can help the student focus to the subjects by make the class fun or show something interesting that steal the student’s f...