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5- My Math Lesson Reflection

(Repeat) year 2 semester 1
On Tuesday, 30th of April 2013, I began my fifth hand experience in my
teaching practice. I repeat my explanation of my math lesson to grade four
who were Mr. Bettendge students, which was about ordering decimal from
least to greatest and know the place value of each number in the decimal
number. The overall aim of the lesson is to teach students rules of ordering
decimal numbers from least to greatest. During my explanation I focused to
choose easy words depend on students' level, have excellent eyes contact, be
confident, monitor children more closely, provide more challenging tasks and
give the students positive reinforcements. At the end of the lesson students
will be able to know and understand the rules of ordering decimal numbers,
ask and respond to the question of what is the place value of 2, 3 and 8 in
2.38.
According to Kyriacou, there are 10 useful strategies to pre-empt
misbehavior (Kyriacou, 2007, PP.90-91). For example, scanned the class
during her explanation, moved around the class, eye contact, target her
question, changed activity and gave academic helped in the class. I follow
some of these strategies, because Mr. Bettendge class included many
misbehaving students. For instance, in the engagement, one of my questions
was about about the day and date, I heard one student who has English as
their first language was laughing and being disruptive. Because asking about
the day and date was a very easy question for them, and that was Ms. Cerri
Sinclair advise as well. However, I stand in front of the student who laughing
and asked him why you are laughing? Are there anything that let you laugh?
after that the student said no and stop laughing immediately. According to
Harmer, controller is one of the important parts in the teacher roles and
classroom management (Harmer, 2001, P.58). So, I have strong controlling

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during my explanation, and Mr. Bettendge was surprised because he knows

that his students were very misbehaving students.
After the class, I discussed with Mr. Bettendge about what I did well in my
explanation and what steps that I need to improve it. According to Harmmer,
controlling is one of the most important roles of the teacher, which is contain
how the teacher is giving guidance to the students, how to lead a question
and answering during the lesson and how to make student accustomed to set
routines in the lesson (Harmer, 2001, P.117). for example, Mr. Bettendge told
me that there were some students who explained in his class, but she
havent enough ability to control the students' behavior like me. In addition,
he told me that I have excellent using technology and ICT program.
Furthermore, I was very confident during my explanation, excellent
organization lesson steps, excellent planning lesson, very good using voice
level and voice volume. Moreover, Mr. Bettendge liked my activities that I
used it in the lesson, because he noticed how all students were active,
exciting and happy.
On the other hand, there were some point I need to work more on it. Before
Mr. Bettendge told me the area of my development, he told me that all the
teacher did some mistake in their lesson, ever he, has some mistake in his
lesson sometime. My first area of development was next time I havent used
open questions to the whole class, I should ask students individually to make
sure that all students hear the answer. Finally, I should include my
introduction some challenging skills especially if the class included students
who have English as their first language. Because, asking students about day
and date is easy, let them laugh and being disruptive.
Overall, I learn a lot from Mr. Bettendge advises, and I will voice the weak
action that I did it in this lesson to achieve an excellent degree in all steps of
my evaluation and feedback.

References

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Harmer, J. (2001). The Practice of English Language Teaching (3rd ed).

Cambridge : Liz Roberts

Kyriacou, C. (2007). Essential Teaching Skills (3rd ed). Cheltenham: Nelson

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