How to teach Indonesian students like a pro

Aug. 16 – HOW TO TEACH INDONESIAN STUDENTS LIKE A PRO

          The title may seem bragging but I’m not a pro, either.  I just want to share how happy I was today because I successfully did my job as a student teacher. Gladly, I was able to finish my class without someone translating the words to me. Actually this isn’t really much of a news but you want to know what I did?

Well, I wrote my classroom dialogue on a paper and translated the english words into Indonesian terms. But not really the whole dialogue though, just the major words. Although I may sometimes glance at the paper during the discussion, but that’s just a few times when I tend to forget the terms I practiced. I feel proud whenever I speak their language fluently because the students would follow my instructions without hesitations (being a Bisaya-Filipina is an advantage too because a lot of Indonesian words are similar with Bisaya, plus the accent). Also in my powerpoint presentation, in every slide, there is a translation written below the information. I felt no struggle in relaying the lesson to the whole class and everyone gladly participated.