Student Teacher Self Report (PEDAGOGICAL CONTENTS)

2.1.Teaching methods

Based on my observation, teachers in TAU-Laboratory school rarely use students center method as their teaching method, they use teacher center like lecture method as their method instead of student center. It is because the time for 1 meeting is too short, only 1 hour and so many students in the class, around 50 students for every class. So the teachers think that using student center like doing discussion in a group will take time just to organize the students.

Based on that problem, I use simple student center as my teaching method. I use brief explanation for the concept and make students do exercises and seat-discussion as my teaching method then make students to write their work in the chalkboard and asked other students to check their friend’s work, and in the end of the lesson, I asked students to summarize the lesson.

 Students do a discussion

 Student summarize the lesson

2.2.Learning materials and innovation 

Learning materials for biology grade 9 are part and function of the Digestive, Respiratory and Circulatory systems, Heredity (inheritance and variation), Biodiversity and Evaluation, Ecosystem . My cooperating teacher used power point text presentation as her learning media, she showed to student the concept and the exercises for students. I also used power point text presentation for my learning media but I did some innovations on the concept. I used a demonstration the breathing process using the human respiratory model made from recyclable materials. I think this methode can make students more easy to understand the lesson. 

2.3.Source of learning and technology

Source of learning is by using book, the teacher book and the student books. The technology that used on the teaching is only the Slide by using teacher laptop and also the LCD Display in front of the class. Sometimes the teacher also gave the student a copy of the slides.

2.4.Authentic Assessment

Authentic assessment that used by the teacher is based on the student task during the learning session, student activeness on the class, and also student mid semester evaluation result, and also by using the teacher quiz.