Experience 3

Hai,

            Teaching in a real school instead of teaching my own friends in the micro-teaching course is totally different. The set up is already different where in micro-teaching classes, we can plan what we want our students to be like and how they behave like they will behave or do what they are supposed to do. In school, it all happens naturally where the students will do what they want to do and feel. They never lie in their actions. 

             Because the students act naturally, it leads to many problems done by the students. The most problematic one is their discipline. Discipline problems are very hard to handle as I am a new teacher and I don't know what action should I take. Rather than other student's problem, I should focus more on the problems that arise in my own classes, Class X and Class Y. After teaching them for a few weeks, I realized that there is a problem that always done by my students in both classes. 

            A few of my students in both classes are very talkative. Thus, they like to talk with each other regardless of the situation, even when I'm teaching in front of them. I find this problem is rather disturbing and problematic in many ways. The students usually like to gossip with each other or chatting about things that are not in the books. Not only they are talking, they don't even pay attention to what I'm teaching. 

               This problem affect not only my concentration in teaching, but at the same time, it disturbs the other students who are paying attention to my teaching. They will lost their concentration and cannot focus to their studies. To solve this problem, what I do is I will use the silent treatment method to the whole class. I will stop teaching in front and just look silently at those who are talking. Most of the time, this method is very effective because they will feel curious about what happens as the situation suddenly becomes silent and stop talking when they saw me just standing there and looking at them with angry expression. In addition, most of the time, other students in the class will also advice and stop the talking students from talking. They will feel guilty and ashamed because they were advised by their own friends. I will only continue my teaching after all of them stop talking and pay attention to me.