71 would complain and even reluctant to speak. Thus, what Jalu could do was only
always reminding the students to speak in English and responding all of the students Indonesian questions in English. However, he planned to implement such
a classroom language rule in the next school year and he still tried to find his rule for classroom language for the next school year.
9. Participants’ job besides teaching
Kiki and Jalu‟s main job as English teachers was teaching English. However, they still had so many jobs besides teaching such as administrative
works and PIC of certain program. Besides annual program, semester program, and syllabus which should be done first or before teaching, they still had so many
administrative works such as lesson plan monthly schedule
mos
; summary of teaching material; grading; score test analysis; report card checklist; quiz and test
scope and items
kisi-kisi soal
; and making questions for quiz, monthly test, and final test.
Apart from their duty as English teacher and its administrative works, they also had another jobs related to their additional position in the school. Besides an
English teacher, Jalu was a Christian Education teacher and the PIC for swimming program in the school. As the PIC for swimming, Jalu was responsible to gather
the students who joined swimming extra-curricular after school and to accompany those students waiting for the car which would pick them up to the swimming
pool. On the other hand, Kiki was a classroom teacher in this year and the coordinator of English development started from the middle of her first year up to
now. As the English development coordinator, she was responsible for arranging
72 the time table for English subject. Then she also became English trainer for other
teachers. A year before, Kiki had ever been an assistant of classroom teacher in her first year of working.
Kiki and Jalu worked every Monday to Friday starts from 7 o‟clock, in the
morning until 3.15 in the afternoon. At 07.00 a.m. until 07.30 a.m. Kiki and Jalu were having morning service and briefing. If they were on usher duty, they had to
stay at the front gate to greet the students from 07.30 a.m. until 08.00 a.m. If not, they were free up to 08.30. However, Kiki who was an assistant of class teacher in
her first year working and was a class teacher in her following year of working, could not have free time from 08.00 a.m. until 08.30 a.m. because she must lead
the morning service for the students in the class. After that, Kiki and Jalu would enter the class based on the teaching schedule they have.
In one day, Kiki and Jalu usually had around 5 up to 6 hours of teaching. An hour of teaching was equal with 35 minutes. In between their busy teaching
hours, they had around 3 hours of teaching which was free and could be used for doing their administrative works. In other words, they only had approximately 1
hour and 45 minutes for doing any job other than teaching, such as making lesson plan, monthly schedule mos, summary of teaching material, grading, score test
analysis, report card checklist, quiz and test scope and items
kisi-kisi soal
, and making questions for quiz, monthly test, and final test.
At first, their free time in between their teaching hours was not enough to be used for doing all of the administrative works. Thus they could not avoid
73 bringing their works home. Their free time at home was usually being used to do
administrative works. Kiki revealed that she could not finish all of the administrative works only
in her free time from teaching. Though she tried to manage her free time well for doing any kinds of administrative works, the time was still not enough. Thus she
still needed to bring her works home. She especially did lesson planning at home because she could not easily find the idea for it at the office. Moreover, her duty
in preparing the school event also took her time and thus she could not finish the administrative works at the office. Kiki told me:
In my free time, around 3 hours of teaching, I tried to finish any administrative work. It can be lesson plan, questions for quiz, checking
students‟ exercises, quizzes, or tests. However, the time is not enough. Therefore, I need to bring some to home. It is impossible for me to make
lesson plan during my free time which is not quite long. Moreover, when we are going to hold such an event, such as Christmas and Valentine, the
free time would also be reduced for discussing the upcoming event and thus overtime-work at home is unavoidable.
Interview3_K64 As the time went by, Kiki realized that she needed to have a good time
management so that she did not need to bring so many works home. Thus, she avoided making lesson plan at the office because she needed more time to think
and to find the idea for it. Instead of spending her free time to think and to find the idea for her lesson plan, she did other administrative works which could be
finished faster than making lesson plan. However, Kiki maintained that up to now she still brought her work home sometimes when she could not finish it at the
office.
74 Talking about her overtime-works at home, it was then revealed that
actually her over-time works are not mainly about doing administrative works, but also thinking over her stude
nts‟ particular problems, for instance the trouble maker students and the low ability students. Kiki revealed that
… actually my overtime-work at home is a lot and is not mainly about administrative job. As a teacher, I realized that I am working with
humans. My job is about my relationship with my students who are humans. If I work with a computer, I could know exactly the cause of its
error. However, working with human is not as definite as working with a computer. When there is a problem with children, I need to think about
what makes them become like that
… I need to think about how to communicate it with their parents and also how to make up their behavior
to be better … Interview3_K8
Jalu also experienced similar things. At his first month working he even brought the entire administrative works home because he used to think and to do
intellectual things better at home. Another reason was because he did not have notebook computer, but only personal computer at home. But then he realized that
doing all of the administrative works at home was not effective. Sometimes he even left important data at home. Then he decided to buy notebook computer to
ease his jobs because he could do his administrative jobs at the office. However he sometimes still brings his works home because the time is not enough.
Facing with piles of works besides teaching made Jalu realized that he must be good in managing his time. He sometimes has additional duty, such as
preparing certain school event, besides doing administrative works. Thus, he was now more flexible but wise to choose which works done at the office and which
works done at home based on the urgency. For instance, he ever experienced
75 using his free time in which he usually did administrative works for preparing the
following d ay‟s school event.
10. The participants’ metamorphose
