E-Reflection 1: Principles of Effective Teaching and Assessment

This is the firstly I learn about Principles of Effective Teaching and Assessment. In the first meeting I learn about what an effective teacher is and what an effective teaching is. Before we learn about that, firstly my lecture asks us to discuss with friend who sit next to us. We discuss about who inspire us to become a teacher, what kind of teacher do you like and don’t like, and whose motivate us to become a teacher. I think it is an interested discussion. My friend tells about interested experiences with her teacher. I get some point from the discussion, especially about our experiences with our teacher in school before, the point that we can take good things from our teacher in school and we can throw away the bad things from them.

After we discuss, we learn about differences between effective teacher and effective teaching. Based on what I learn in the class and based on my opinion, to become effective teacher we should have good classroom management, we should have good time management, we should become a role model in class, we should have good to deliver knowledge to our students, etc.

Meanwhile, in my opinion to become effective teaching we should use 3 ways communication in class. It is mean that in class there are communication between teacher with students and students with students. Then, in class should not use Teacher Centered Learning (TCL) but used Student Centered Learning (SCL). In this case teacher just become a facilitator, so the students can critical thinking and can solve the problem about the lesson by their self. Beside it, the teacher should maintain the students to become conducive. I hope after I learn about principles of effective teaching and assessment in the first session, I can become an effective teacher and can do effective teaching especially to teach language.