The Struggles of a Foreign Student Teacher
Aug. 15 –
THE STRUGGLES OF A FOREIGN STUDENT TEACHER
The time has come for me to take over the class. My topic
was about the basic fundamental skills in Basketball. The class I was assigned
to teach was in Grade 8G. About 85% of the students in the class couldn’t speak
English and could only even understand a bit, while some really do not understand
English.
In teaching Physical education, I am confident about bringing up the topic through physical actions, gestures and body language, especially in a school where English isn’t the medium of instruction. However, I couldn’t really fully depend with just gestures in teaching because we also need to wake their cognitive and affective aspect. Explaining to them the values of the lesson and communicating to them was very hard. But during my discussion, some of the English terms were familiar to them since some of it are close to their native terms. And even though I had my cooperating teacher with me to translate my words to the class, it’s still not enough for me to transfer the knowledge because sometimes it gets a bit dead air and it is time consuming, too.
Oftentimes, the students would even teach me the Indonesian term for that specific word so that I could relay the instruction to everyone clearly. But it was a lesson for me though, a nice challenge that I should find solution to.
In teaching Physical education, I am confident about bringing up the topic through physical actions, gestures and body language, especially in a school where English isn’t the medium of instruction. However, I couldn’t really fully depend with just gestures in teaching because we also need to wake their cognitive and affective aspect. Explaining to them the values of the lesson and communicating to them was very hard. But during my discussion, some of the English terms were familiar to them since some of it are close to their native terms. And even though I had my cooperating teacher with me to translate my words to the class, it’s still not enough for me to transfer the knowledge because sometimes it gets a bit dead air and it is time consuming, too.
Oftentimes, the students would even teach me the Indonesian term for that specific word so that I could relay the instruction to everyone clearly. But it was a lesson for me though, a nice challenge that I should find solution to.
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