Class Reflection #1

On Monday, February 11^th 2013, was the first english meeting in second semester.  At first lesson began by praying which was led by Mr. Marsigit. Then we spent most of time in that lesson by knowing each other through introduction. Mr. Marsigit told us about himself and his family. From his introduction, I knew  he is very expert in english. Besides that introduction, he told us many things. What will we learn on this semester, specially what we need in this english lesson.

In order to improve our english knowledge, Mr. Marsigit planned about the classical learning that content of pretest, reflection, and online course. Pretest helds everyday to perceive our development. It contained about grammar, structure, reading, vocabulary, verb, adverb, and so on. Reflection  is re-elaborate what happening in the class extensively. The last is online course, in this course we were must be able to analize and reflected articles from Mr. Marsigit’s blog. The best way to make a good reflection is understand th article in deepth. Then explain with your own words.  In the end of lesson, Mr. Marsigit said that it is better doing a mistake and doing something.

February 18^th, 2013 was the second lesson. As usual lesson began by praying. In this lesson Mr. Marsigit talked about english for mathematics education. In his perception english is a language and language is life. In order learned effectively using life approach. The characteristic are movement, effort, writing, listening, talking, reading, etc. He also stressed us out to construct our own concept. He told us the phycological aspect  of learning english which was important for us, will, attitude, knowledge, skill, and experience. Will was our heart feeling, our motivation,  and our spirit. He said that the bigest motivation in our lesson is our believe to God. If we already had a will, we must act as a follow up from our willing which was called attitude. If we had good attitude we can get a lot of knowledge, skill, and experience.  In the case of our need to develop mathematics education, we need to develope our communication through english for mathematic education.  This is why we must communicate efectively and intensively.

Reflection of "Pembelajaran Matematika Seperti Apa yang Kita Harapkan di SD?"

From the article, I think an appropriate learning for elementary student is fun but systematic. I mean the students are permitted to create a creative problem solving based on their own imagination, but not out of rule which is given by teacher. Freudenthal said that math should give opportunity to student for “be guided” and “refind” math by doing it. So that, teachers must have knowledge of learning steps in order to get systematic delivery. The realistic steps of math learning are preparation, opening, learning proses, and closing.

The  first step is preparation, teacher prepares and understand the contextual issues in depth so that he can estimate the possibility strategies pursued by students to solve the problem. Then opening, teacher introduces learning strategies  through  problem in daily life. Then the students solve it by their own methods. After that is learning process, students solve problem in many ways, then present it on class individually or in group. Teacher perceive and guide students to get the best strategies. The last one is closing, this step content of learning conclusion and evaluation. From that elaboration we can conclude that, as a teacher, we must increase our capasity, indeed this is the way to give the best education in our country.  

source :

http://powermathematics.blogspot.com/2008/11/pembelajaran-matematika-seperti-apa.html?showComment=1361709868938#c5348816265340976429