Second Week: Teaching Assistance

            Hi everyone! Welcome back to my SEA-Teacher story. In the previous post, I already explained about the first week activity which was Classroom observation and now I will explain about the second activity in this practicum, it is Teaching Assistance. Teaching Assistance is an activity which had to be done right before teaching practice. In this stage, I helped the teachers to encourage the students to understand the lesson taught by the teacher by explaining the material in a small group or one by one. For teaching assistance I followed Teacher Ali’s and Teacher Steve’s class and Teacher Beth’s class and did 20 times teaching assistance.

            In teacher Ali’s and teacher Steve’s class, I helped them to repeat and explain the material that was already delivered to students. In Primary level, it was a must for the teacher to do repetition for the lesson and also instructions whenever students were asked to do an assignment. Even though there was a clear instruction to do the test, most of the students did get the ideas. They were confused what to do. Here, I helped the students by explaining the instruction and sometimes giving an example so that they would understand what they supposed to do. Besides, I also helped by the students to calm them down. Primary students usually have a kind of mood that was easily swinging. In primary 5/3, I found a boy who cried because of unclear reason. Teacher Ali approached him and tried to calm him down, but he was still crying. At that moment, I approached him and gave him a tissue and he was directly stopped crying and continued to join the class. Besides, I also helped the teachers to make students be quite and listen to the lesson. 

            Teaching assistance gave me a very great experience. This activity enabled me to get know the students better and helped them whenever they need the teacher’s guidance. It also made me to have a special connection to the students and have a closer relation with them. That would help them too to feel free to ask the teachers whenever they found some difficulties or ptoblems in learning activity.