WEEK 2: Building Block
The second week for me is the official start of this program. I am really thankful that our first week is filled with recreation and relaxation in the meantime to give way for the aftermath of the midterm exam of the SMA Labschool students, and it was an opportunity for us to adjust with the change we continuously encountered.
For this week, we started it as what we purposely went there, as a Student-Teacher. So at first I was nervous since it is gonna be a new environment for us, but then Ma'am Lissiana and Dr. Eka keeps on reassuring us that we will take things easy and comfortably. Guiding and monitoring us from time to time to ensure our condition is alright. The school even provided us a room where we can stay for the whole duration of the program.
Every classroom is fully ventilated and air-conditioned, complete with LCD projectors, speakers, and computer monitor, and students even have their own locker. The facilities, and buildings are well built, from classrooms, comfort rooms, laboratories, offices, canteens, library, field, rooftops, parking area, gymnasium, and even their mushola. One of the students who accompanied us told us that they only have a small area for the school that explains their high built building, and I can say they made things excellently. Furthermore, I want to express my amazement as a science teacher to their libraries and fully equipped laboratories that give free access to students with regards to their learning. This is the great advantage for me when it comes to scientific and technological innovation of learning and research.
We were tasked to observe how a classroom implementation works in this school, so for a week, we are at the back, observing, understanding, and internalizing how things work inside their classroom setting. At first, we were assigned to the regular class, but since that class is using Bahasa Indonesia as their language of teaching-learning, our caring cooperating teacher transferred us to a Bilingual class that uses English as another language in the teaching-learning process.
What I have really observed from all the classes I've been through in SMA Labschool UPI, this school is a student friendly school that focuses mainly on the welfare of the students, providing only the right amount of time for student's comfort in learning. There is allotted 80 minutes twice a week discussion for each subject, so here students and teachers do not have a limited time digesting and learning new lessons, they have all the time to take things easy with no time pressure in internalizing the learnings they need to feed their mind. One topic for a week to give student's time to fully comprehend and understand the lesson topic they are learning. In addition, the relationship between students and teachers is one thing to admire, they have this closeness but respect is still there as they actively collaborate and interact outside the classroom and even during the lesson proper. We also had some great time talking to the students, about our purpose of stay, our whereabouts, culture, errands, and some expectations and current experience in their city.
During the weekend, we don't have scheduled excursions, so it was the time where I prepared for next week's teaching practice. Since we already finished observing the three classes designated to us for a week, we are already told to start teaching for our third week. The cooperating teacher gave us the topic during the weekdays, so we worked on it during the weekend to be fully prepared for the practicum.
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