General Teaching Skills should be Improved

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1. The Analysis of First Observation

The researcher observed the strengths and weaknesses of micro teaching students teaching presentations on the first observation. She presented the weaknesses should be improved by the respondents on the table of each teaching skill. The teaching skills should be improved as follows.

a. General Teaching Skills should be Improved

Teaching Skills Respondent Percentage 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 9 t h 10 t h General Skills Material Mastery √ √ √ √ 40 Confidence √ √ √ √ √ 50 Appearance √ √ √ √ √ 50 Manage the Class time √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 70 Pronunciatio n √ √ 20 Grammar Accuracy √ √ 20 Speaking Fluency √ 10 Table 1. General Teaching Skills should be Improved After conducting the first observation, the researcher compiled, analyzed, and wrote the result in the table. The researcher assumed that there were 40 of respondents had poor material mastery skill which categorized as general skill of a teacher. As stated by Purnomo et al 2008 that teacher has to be able to master the material. It is clear that teacher has a duty to deliver material to the students. Teacher has to understand the curriculum and the characteristic of the students 36 before designing the material in order to create the most appropriate material which can reach the goal of the standard competence and basic competence. For example, the second respondent could not design appropriate materials for senior high school students. The listening material played was not clear that made the students could not do the exercise. Meanwhile, the fifth respondent should change the way in designing material which should be from the easy to the difficult one. On the first teaching, he had not maintained the difficulty level of the material. Moreover, the sixth respondent had to improve the material mastery by explaining the teaching content slowly and understandably. In addition, the eighth respondent also had the problem about material mastery that she asked the students to do jumbled pictures in 2 minutes. Besides having no consideration about time management, she also did not consider that students had different capability in doing exercise. The teacher had to know that the students in the real teaching would be senior high school and junior high school that somehow needs to open dictionary. Furthermore, based on the first observation, it could be argued that confidence which is defined as general skill as stated by Purnomo et al 2008 must be improved by 50 of respondents. For instance, the third respondent had not maintained good emotion in the first teaching, so it made her confidence looked to be not maximal. She seemed to be less confidence and hastily in delivering teaching. The sixth respondent also should improve her confidence since she had not shown the teaching power. She still looked shy to deliver teaching in front of the whole class. Similar with the sixth respondent, the seventh 37 respondent also had not shown her confidence by showing teacher power. She was less of serious which could decrease the power of teacher. Moreover, the eighth respondent had the similar problem that she seemed nervous and less of serious. The power of teacher had not appeared to her. The last respondent who had problem about confidence was the tenth respondent since she looked to be nervous. Furthermore, based on the first observation, there were 50 of respondent had problem with appearance that included into general skills of teacher. Purnomo et al 2008 said that teacher have to have the ability to master the appearance. Based on the researcher’s first observation, it was argued that the sixth respondent had poor appearance since she had no spirit in teaching. The seventh respondent still acted as a child and made some ridiculous activity that decreased her appearance. Moreover, the eighth respondent looked to be so nervous and less of serious. The ninth respondent was also less of teaching power since she still acted as a child in front of the class. In addition, the tenth respondent had shown her teaching power. According to result of the first observation, it was argued that there were 2 general teaching skills should be improved by 20 of respondents. Those were class management, pronunciation, grammar accuracy. As stated by Purnomo et al 2008 that the general skills of are as follows. a. Ability to master the material, appearance, and confidence, b. Ability to manage the class and time 38 c. Ability to use language in correct grammar and pronunciation, and the speaking fluency. It was clear from Purnomo et al statement 2008 that teacher has to develop the ability to manage the class. Based on the first observation, the first and the second respondent did some miss pronunciation. Even the first respondent also did some grammatical mistakes in her speaking such us the used of tenses. The other respondent who did grammatical mistake was the tenth respondent. She also need to improve the used of tenses in producing sentences. Moreover, the weakness on the speaking fluency skill did by the first respondent. She needed few second to say something. Moreover, the researcher revealed that there were 70 of respondents who had poor time and class management in conducting teaching simulation. The poor arrangement of time mostly influenced to the set closure activity. Because of poor time arrangement, they conducted closing activity in the limited time thus the result showed that the closing was done worst. For example, the first respondent had no time to make review in the closing time. Similar with the first respondent, the second respondent had poor set closure skill since there was no more time to provide the better one. Even, the third respondent had no closing activity since there was no time left. The fourth respondent did not control the class well. Even, he let some students talked outside the teaching content while the other students discussed the exercise. While, the sixth respondent was hastily in delivering explanation and doing exercise therefore, the time was useless since the students has limited time to understand the material. Moreover, the seventh respondent had 39 the same problem with the other respondent that she spent most time for the main activity and had limited time for closing activity. The seventh respondent still needed to improve the class management skill since she allowed the students to speak in Javanese while answering the question given. Furthermore, as a good teacher who speaks in front of students, she should manage the sentence with correct grammar and pronunciation since Indonesian says that teacher is an example for students. The last respondent who did not manage the time well was the eighth respondent, she also spent the time mostly for set induction activity and main activity, and she had no time to close the lesson.

b. Set Induction Skills should be Improved