Dealing with administrative works for the first time

53 opportunity to observe teacher who teach English and Christian Education at grade 1.

5. Dealing with administrative works for the first time

As English teachers, Jalu and Kiki understood well that they were responsible to teach English to the students. However, dealing with so many administrative works had not ever been envisaged before. They only knew that teacher was responsible for making lesson plan, making questions for test, and grading. Other administrative works such as annual program prota program tahunan ; semester program promes program semester ; syllabus; monthly schedule mos; summary of teaching material; score test analysis; report card checklist; and quiz and test scope and items kisi-kisi soal were never been imagined before. At the beginning I actually was shocked knowing that I had so many things to do. I have never thought before that teacher has many things to do. I guessed other schools do not assign their teachers to do these piles of work. Then, I realized that being a teacher is not as easy as what we thought before. Teacher‟s job is not only teaching. There are so many things to do besides teaching. Though I got shocked at first, I do enjoy it. Interview2_J17 Annual program prota program tahunan and semester program promes program semester were the prior administrative works which Jalu and Kiki should make. Making annual and semester program were new for both of them. Kiki ever revealed she never learnt about how to make those programs when she was in undergraduate study program. Similarly, Jalu also maintained that he did not ever study about how to make annual and semester program before at the college. 54 Kiki learnt how to make annual and semester program from the vice principal and school training that she joined before the new class year started in 2012. Slightly different from Kiki, Jalu who joined the school in around the first mid-term semester of 2013 school year, learnt how to make annual and semester program from the vice-principal only. Though making annual and semester program had never been studied previously at their college, Kiki and Jalu could grasp the key concept of those programs and thus knew what they should do. Kiki told me that At that time, the vice principal who was also the coordinator of the curriculum told me how to make annual and semester program. Prota annual program is like an annual program which is comprised of indicators, learning materials, and the time allocation. For me, prota is conceivable and feasible. Not much different from prota , promes is comprised of indicators but with detail time allocation. Though it was not taught at the college, I could more or less conceive of what and how to make them. Interview3_K45 Likewise, Jalu revealed that Though when I was studied at the college I had never learnt how to make prota and promes , I could grasp the idea of how to make those programs easily since it is simple actually. It is like making the plan for the time allocation for each learning material based on each basic competence and each standard competence… ya at last I could understand and make it. Interview2_J18 The so called “learning by doing” was experienced by Kiki and Jalu when they dealt with annual and semester program. Learning from the previous annual and semester program was one of their strategies to handle those administrative works. Jalu revealed that a good filing system in the school helped him much. The 55 previous annual and semester program which were kept and organized well in the library could be used as the examples. Luckily, the school has a good filing system. The files of annual and semester program made by the teachers are kept well there. Even the files of the previous teacher which I replace are there. Because of that, I could learn how to make annual and semester program from it. Interview2_J16 Besides learning by doing, in making annual and semester program Kiki and Jalu were helped by the vice principal who was also the curriculum coordinator. They preferred to asked and consulted to the vice principal about how to make annual and semester program, because the vice principal was also an English teacher and graduated from the same English Teacher Education study program with them. I made annual and semester program by considering teaching materials that I should teach based on the textbook and then I consulted it to the vice principal who was also the coordinator of the curriculum. He graduated from English Teacher Education study program too. He liked to give me suggestions “Miss Kiki, it would be better if you make it this way…” Moreover he already got his master degree, and I think he knows better about it. However, though I could consult my annual and semester program to him basically I learnt it by myself. I tried to grasp the concept or the pattern of it by myself. Interview3_K46 I usually asked… I have ever asked Mbak. Kiki. But mostly I asked the vice principal who was also the coordinator of the curriculum. Because he was also an English teacher, I thought it was better to ask him. Interview2_J21 Besides annual and semester program, syllabus also became one of Kiki and Jalu‟s challenges in their initial times. Designing syllabus was their main problem related to the administrative works. They found that it was difficult to design syllabus because so far they thought that syllabus was already provided by 56 the government or the school. Kiki revealed that she had never been taught how to design or develop syllabus when she was at the college. Next is about syllabus. We never studied about how to develop a syllabus. We used to think that syllabus is already provided. Since the school is a private bilingual school with national plus curriculum, we introduce English since the students are in the pre-school and we are free to not to follow the syllabus made by the government. Unfortunately, I did not ever study to develop a syllabus into certain extent. That was the thing that I never learnt before. Interview3_K45 Hence, when she developed her syllabus, she made it based on the textbook used in the school without any changes and adjustment. Likewise, Jalu did not really understand how to develop a syllabus. Even though he had learnt from the last year syllabus, Jalu was still confused about to what extent he might develop it. Because of that, he did not make his own syllabus but copied from the last year syllabus.

6. The participants’ first teaching