I. THE TEACHER
Based on the theory at the second chapter, I can reflect that I am included as The Involver during my Internship program.
Some reasons why I am included myself as The Involver:
A. When I came to this school and observed. I already knew that this school still used the traditional method in teaching, where the teacher explain and the students take a note (In other words, most of teacher in my workplace during the internship program, are The Explainer). However, Mrs. Wiwiek Andreani ever told in Introduction to English Language Learning course class in the 4th semester, that The Explainer seems ineffective to be used, because sometimes it makes the students become a passive students. She said that If we want to be a good English teacher, we must
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They are likely to do a learning by observing.
D. Children are love to talk rather than listen. Therefore, I know that they were more enthusiast in learning by practicing, than just listening my explanation. They easily got bored when just listening teacher’s explanation. Nevertheless, their enthusiasm was very high when I engage them actively when discussing the materials. Each of them tried to show their ability in order to comprehend the materials.
2. Jean Piaget’s Stage of Development
Based on Jean Piaget’s Stage of Development, I put the 2nd grade to the Pre-Operational stage and the 5th also the 6th grade are put in to the Concrete Operationalstage.
The reason why I put the 2nd grade students to the second stage (Pre-Operational Stage) of Jean Piaget’s Stage of Development are:
A. The 2nd grade students in my workplace during internship program were approximately 6 to 7 years old.
B. Their characteristic was nearly the same with the explanation in the Pre-Operational stage; they lacked of logical thinking and their egocentrism was very high.
C. Sometimes, my students often asked for an unimportant things. Even they asked for something they had asked before, just made sure that my answer still as