Reflection 1

Getting Stuck in Teaching

 Aziza Restu Febrianto

Honestly, there are some problems I occasionally find while teaching English in class.  But I always try to get myself ready to find the solutions as well.  

The first problem is being consistent in making innovative teachings. I think that every English teacher also feels the same. It is actually something usual for us as committed teachers to have awareness on our tasks and responsibilities. But becoming an innovative teacher is not absolutely easy. Due to the fact that we have to teach in class everyday, sometimes it is hard to create the class teaching to be different and more interesting because we are too tired and bored of the activities. 

However, as a professional teacher, it is also my responsibility to make my class teaching activities always attractive so that my students keep on following my instruction and paying much more attention to me.

When I get stuck to create some innovations in my teaching activities, I was always preparing some certain approaches to anticipate as follows;

1. Telling an interesting story.

This is an easy way to attract the students. Just tell what we ever heard and watched to the students. I am sure our students would listen to it enthusiastically. We do not need serious preparation for this, right?

2. Sharing about our life experiences and hobbies.

We can exactly tell what we have done and some hobbies we usually do. I believe our students would be quite glad to listen. It is a piece of cake as well, isn’t it?

3. Playing the previous games or group discussion

We don’t need to prepare a new game to make the class more interesting. We can just use a game done in the previous meeting. To make all students active to follow the lesson, I think a creative group discussion with a hot topic is a good solution too.

Those are all tips I have when I get stuck on teaching creativity. But I do them all only in importunate situation. It’s absolutely better to prepare everything completely before the class.