The Teaching Preparations of Teaching English at Junior High School

accessing the information and in the daily life regarded to build interpersonal relation, to exchange information, and also to enjoy the esthetic of English culture. Furthermore, according to the 1994 Curriculum, the objective of Junior High School Islamic Junior High School is to give the skills in order to develop the knowledge and skills are gotten from basic school to improve students’ life as a member of society and citizen of a country with improvement level to prepare following the secondary education 16 . Whereas, based on the latest syllabus syllabus 2006 English subject at Junior High School functioned that the students should have a skill of a communicate spoken and written to get a functional literacy level, b to enhance nation competition in global society, and c develop the students’ understanding between language and culture 17 .

F. The Teaching Preparations of Teaching English at Junior High School

In teaching English the teachers have to make a preparation in order to get the real objectives of the teaching-learning process itself, there are three items of activities that should be prepared before they begin to teach, namely; 1 teaching preparation, 2 teaching-learning process in the classroom, and 3 evaluation. The analysis of time allocation, an annual program, semester program, and unit of lesson plan should be in designing teaching preparation. The teacher must make the analysis of time allocation in order to know the numbers of an effective and ineffective week in a semester or a year, the teacher will be helped with this process in allocating the learning times for each unit subject. After the analysis of time allocation has been managed, the teacher should make annual and semester programs as general planning for each unit subject, the result of the them will used as a basic concept in designing a unit of lesson plan. 16 Drs. Harsono Tjokrosujoso, M.Pd. Kurrikulum 1994 dan Pengembangan Materi Bahasa Inggris SLTP dan SMU , Malang: Institute Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Malang, 1996, p. 28. 17 Anonymous, Standar Isi dan Standar kompetensi Lulusan untuk Satuan Pendidikan Sekolah Menengah Pertama SMP Madrasah Tsanawiyah MTs Beserta Peraturan Pelaksanaannya Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia No. 22, 23, dan 24 Tahun 2006 , Jakarta, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. Unpublished. Continue to the next page. Whereas, the unit of lesson plan is a course design of the subject applied in the classroom by the English teacher. There are some steps which are applied in designing a unit of lesson plan are that; 1 a subject unit will be applied in learning process, 2 the standard and basic competency, 3 the indicators, 4 the analysis of time allocation, 5 the learning objectives, 6 the subject materials, 7 the method which is used for the teaching-learning activities, 8 the steps of learning activities, namely; first activities, core activities, and end activities, 9 the resources and media used in teaching-learning activities, and 10 the technique of evaluation, and the evaluation instrument used in teaching-learning activities. All of those items of lesson plan can be seen in the table 2.2 below; Table 2.2 The format of lesson plan RENCANA PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN RPP Satuan Pendidikan Mata Pelajaran KelasSemester Standar Kompetensi Kompetensi Dasar Indikator Alokasi Waktu : ………………………………………… : ………………………………………… : ………………………………………… : ………………………………………… : ………………………………………… : ………………………………………… : …… x …… menit …. pertemuan A. Tujuan Pembelajaran …………………………………………………………………………………………. B. Materi Pembelajaran …………………………………………………………………………………………. C. Metode Pembelajaran …………………………………………………………………………………………. D. Langkah – langkah Kegiatan Pembelajaran Pertemuan 1 Kegiatan Awal: Dilengkapi dengan alokasi waktu …………………………………………………………………………………………. Kegiatan Inti: Dilengkapi dengan alokasi waktu ………………………………………………………………………………………… Kegiatan Penutup: Dilengkapi dengan alokasi waktu ………………………………………………………………………………………… Dan seterusnya. E. Sumber Belajar disebutkan secara konkrit ………………………………………………………………………………………… F. Penilaian Tehnik : ………………………………………………………………………………………… Bentuk Instrumen : ………………………………………………………………………………………… Contoh Instrumen soalTugas: Ditambah Kunci Jawaban atau Pedoman Penilaian ………………………………………………………………………………………… Adapted from Masnur Muslich. ………………., ……… Mengetahui, Kepala Sekolah Guru Mata Pelajaran …………………… ……………………….. From the table 2.2 previously, the teachers must follow the steps in designing a unit of lesson plan in order to get a good teaching preparation and can apply it effectively into teaching-learning activities in the classroom.

G. The Implementation of Teaching English at Junior High School