In the 2nd week of PETA, I learned about planning for instruction. It was interesting class because there were a lot of activities I did. I learned about the characteristics of teaching for understanding exactly. From discussion with my friends, we decided that teaching for understanding should contain experiences and fun. We also had a chance to watch a video that showed to us about effective teaching. In fact, after Ms. Tika explaining the exactly meaning of effective teaching, teaching for understanding in particular, we knew that teaching not only contained of fun and experiences, but also it should require higher order thinking. Teaching shouldn’t only propose activities focused design and coverage focused design, but also it should let students to argue, think critically, and learn by doing. Teaching effectively should cover all stages of Bloom’s Taxonomy. At the first time, I assumed that teaching effectively contained fun activities, experience through the topic, and fulfillment of syllabus. Nevertheless, after following PETA course, I knew that teaching effectively require more than those. Teaching effectively should also be delivered by teachers that have knowledge of content, pedagogical content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and knowledge of learners and learning. Teaching can’t be served by any person. This course gave me a lot of valuable knowledge.
(Faqih Al Adyan, 2009110038)
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Dear, faqih.
I do agree with you that this course gave us a lot of valuable knowledge. We can’t depend only on syllabus, we must more creative to create a good learning process. Good not only fun, isn’t it? Like what Ms. Tika said. Teaching effectively should also be delivered by teachers that have knowledge of content, pedagogical content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and knowledge of learners and learning, i like your statement. That’s why now we are in SSE to be a teacher like you described.
Bloom taxonomy actually only stages of development, but i think the main idea is our ability to understand our students stages in the taxonomy …. let we discuss more ….
Thanks Sufy for your comment. Ok, let’s learn and discuss more…:)
Faqih, i agree with u..
teaching activities should let students to argue, think critically and learn by doing. Students is not only remembering, like in the video that we have watched in the 2nd PETA meeting, but also make students have higher order thinking.
The teacher should be creatively to arrange the activities for their students. 🙂
“Teaching shouldn’t only propose activities focused design and coverage focused design, but also it should let students to argue, think critically, and learn by doing’
I like that sentence, I absolutely agree with you. The nature of teaching and learning is that how the way we try to make our students understand. While understand means that students not only know about all the lesson that we’ve already explained to them, but also in reality, they can apply it. I think that the same idea with “learning by doing”
If our student can connect material into real life, it’s really help us as a teacher to deliver the concept of the matter. Making fun maybe can’t used as standard for measure effective learning. Because each student have a different wishful and we as a teacher can’t always accede an appeal of our student. Be creative and always try to improve knowledge and the way to making effective teaching are the most important things as a teacher candidate in the millennium decade. Happy Learning! 🙂