OBSERVATION ON TEACHER

1.   Planning for Teaching

My Cooperating teacher at NEUST Laboratory High School is Prof. Severino C. Fortunato. He is a Physics teacher and also principal. Before teaching, he made a lesson plan based on the material he was going to teach.

2.   Preparing Lessons and Materials

There are two types of lesson plans, detailed lesson plans, and semi-detailed lesson plans. The difference between the two is in the detail lesson plan the teacher writes down all activities that will be going to do including mentioning the possible response from students. Some of the materials they have to prepare are includes: the most important are lesson plans, learning media such as powerpoint, and guidebooks. The teacher teaches according to the lesson plan he has made. Starting from greeting until giving assignments.

3.   Teaching in Class

The first time is the preliminary activity. In this part, the teacher conducts activities such as greeting, asks students to prepare them selves, prepares textbooks, asks a class leader to lead prayers, check attendance and the last gave motivation on topics to be discussed to make students more enthusiastic with the lessons. For example, the teacher will show some pictures or videos about the topic and ask students to respond to the picture/video. Sometimes, the teacher also gave a review of the topics they have learned at the previous meeting.

Then the teacher will start from the lesson proper step. In this part, the teacher presents the topic of the lesson. After that, the teacher asked students to discuss and gave some questions about the topic. Actually, after the lesson proper step there are an application step, but during my observation, I did not see my mentor teacher doing the application part. So he directly continue to the generalization part. At this part, the teacher made a review of the topic they had learned today. The teacher asks several questions and then continue to the next step, Evaluation. At this step, the teacher gives a short quiz to check the students level of understanding of this topic. The last step is giving assignments. The teacher gives assignments to students based on the material discussed today or material that will be discussed in the next meeting. The class ends with a greeting from students, they said see you again sir Fortunato.

4.   Measurement and Evaluation

The teacher gives an evaluation after finished the discussion of a chapter. The evaluation given by my teaching mentor is in the form of multiple choices or sometimes also in the form of problem-solving. The teacher also gives a short quiz when finished discussing a topic. The teacher also gives assignments to students. Sometimes students are told to draw and sometimes students are asked to learn the next material.