My Personal Teaching Experience
I am a 28 years old English teacher in MAN Pringsewu. I have been teaching there for about 3.5 years. I have ever taught in some institutions e.g DCC Pringsewu and Celtics English course. Due to some considerations, I decide to focus my teaching activity in two institutions. At time being, I am also teaching in my almamater MA Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi. It’s about 40 km from my address. I should spend an hour to go there. Tracking mount hill road, surrounded by jungle. It is not about money or I have no job. It is based on my “calling soul”. Even though it is quite far I decide to teach there since it is my father inheritance.
Teaching in MAN Pringsewu possibly the place I can take many advantages. Besides doing my job as civil servant, I could increase my capability in English as well. As I have mentioned in the last posting that it is about two years I did not practice my English actively. Because of the job procedure it is compulsory for me to deepen my mastery in English. I try to give the best to my student by having a new method of teaching in the class. I want them to have a hope to me to come to their class everyday.
Many things happened when I teach in my class. Start from having fun together with my students up to giving punishment to “Naughty” one. Why I say like that?? As I have written in the title above “being a teacher = colorful job” I want to share my colorful experience in teaching. I had ever cried together with my students in the class when I gave the material to them. It happened when I gave the material about narrative text. I gave the story to them entitled The apple tree. After giving the generic structure of the text I explained to them about the moral message could be taken from the story. The story is a representation of a son and parent. I told my student that we as a son often came to our parent when we needed their help. But when we had a joy we forget them. While explaining it my students began crying and unconsciously my eyes full of tears as well (for complete story please open my related posting )
With the limited capability in English I keep trying to improve my mastery in English. Fortunately I have many friends whom I can discuss my problem in English with. I still keep in touch with my classmate in Lampung University to share my idea and search a new better one.
Fortunately, my institution frequently sends me to training, meeting and English Discussion where It can makes me familiar with English anymore. My sweet memory is when my institution sent me to 3 days English teacher training for MAN in MAN 1 Bandar Lampung in the beginning of August 2008. I was extremely surprised when the committee of the program mentioned my name in the front of all English teachers as the best participant in the training.
Beside that, even though I have only 3.5 years teaching experience, the government has invited me to join certification program for Teacher. Having some procedures I have to step such as completing porto folio documents, I must join 9 days training for passing this program. Thanks god… I could pass this hard training. Why I called it hard? Because I had no time to take rest during the training. All participants should involve actively in every session of the training. The participant should practice their teaching in the front of English teacher and qualified instructor.
From this posting, I try to find some inputs from the reader to a better teaching in my class and to improve my mastery in English. Please give me some comments related to the way of my writing and some useful suggestions.
Teaching in MAN Pringsewu possibly the place I can take many advantages. Besides doing my job as civil servant, I could increase my capability in English as well. As I have mentioned in the last posting that it is about two years I did not practice my English actively. Because of the job procedure it is compulsory for me to deepen my mastery in English. I try to give the best to my student by having a new method of teaching in the class. I want them to have a hope to me to come to their class everyday.
Many things happened when I teach in my class. Start from having fun together with my students up to giving punishment to “Naughty” one. Why I say like that?? As I have written in the title above “being a teacher = colorful job” I want to share my colorful experience in teaching. I had ever cried together with my students in the class when I gave the material to them. It happened when I gave the material about narrative text. I gave the story to them entitled The apple tree. After giving the generic structure of the text I explained to them about the moral message could be taken from the story. The story is a representation of a son and parent. I told my student that we as a son often came to our parent when we needed their help. But when we had a joy we forget them. While explaining it my students began crying and unconsciously my eyes full of tears as well (for complete story please open my related posting )
With the limited capability in English I keep trying to improve my mastery in English. Fortunately I have many friends whom I can discuss my problem in English with. I still keep in touch with my classmate in Lampung University to share my idea and search a new better one.
Fortunately, my institution frequently sends me to training, meeting and English Discussion where It can makes me familiar with English anymore. My sweet memory is when my institution sent me to 3 days English teacher training for MAN in MAN 1 Bandar Lampung in the beginning of August 2008. I was extremely surprised when the committee of the program mentioned my name in the front of all English teachers as the best participant in the training.
Beside that, even though I have only 3.5 years teaching experience, the government has invited me to join certification program for Teacher. Having some procedures I have to step such as completing porto folio documents, I must join 9 days training for passing this program. Thanks god… I could pass this hard training. Why I called it hard? Because I had no time to take rest during the training. All participants should involve actively in every session of the training. The participant should practice their teaching in the front of English teacher and qualified instructor.
From this posting, I try to find some inputs from the reader to a better teaching in my class and to improve my mastery in English. Please give me some comments related to the way of my writing and some useful suggestions.