Reflection Micro Teaching Definition of Terms

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3. Other Researchers

This study is expected to be able to help other researchers who are going to conduct similar research about weekly reflection in Micro Teaching class. Moreover, it would also give contribution to others who are going to study other topics but still in the scope of Micro Teaching course. Besides that, this study also helps other researchers who are going to study about reflection in other study programs.

F. Definition of Terms

There are three terms which are discussed in order to avoid readers misunderstanding. Those terms are as follows.

1. Reflection

Boud 2001, p.2 stated that reflection is a process of finding experiences and learning new things. It concerns with recalling the experiences and engaging with them to get the memories of what has happened. In this study, weekly reflection means a tool for the micro teaching students to recall and realize about all experiences in every meeting. Moreover, they are asked to reflect others’ experiences which useful for improving their teaching skills.

2. Micro Teaching

According to McKnight 1971 as quoted by Brown 1975, Micro Teaching is described as “a scaled down teaching encounter designed to develop new skills and refine old ones”. The Micro Teaching student teaches a small 7 group of students around ten minutes. The teaching presentation is recorded, observed and analyzed by the trainer himself and the lecturer. Micro Teaching is a subject in which teacher candidates present and manage a teaching-learning process Purnomo et al, 2008. In addition, Richards 1998, p.20 defines micro teaching as “a training-based view of teaching” in which teaching can be defined into individual skills that can be practiced individually by micro teaching students. In this study, micro teaching is a course which prepares the English Language Education Study Program in Sanata Dharma to have their first teaching practice. Micro Teaching students teach their classmates in class for three times in 30 minutes duration. Besides that, Micro Teaching students have the opportunity to practice teaching in lower semester class.

3. Teaching Skills