Presented by: Itje Chodidjah, M.A.
ELT and Education Consultant
At the Board Inauguration of Junior High School English Teachers Association of DKI Jakarta Province and a Half-Day Seminar on "Developing Teachers' Competence in Creating Meaningful Classroom Interaction",
Gedung Serbaguna Dinas Pendidikan Provinsi DKI Jakarta, 14 February 2011
Do you think English Teachers have the biggest influence in the development of economic, industry, and education ?
As an English teachers in SMP, what knowledge should you possess?
What skills should you have?
What attitude should you perform?
Categories of English Teachers
Teachers who :
• Have good command of English and have teaching background
• Have good command of English and no teaching background
• Have teaching background with quite good English
• Have teaching background with a bit poor English
Has there been activities that help them improve their skills in using English?
In communicating with others we do interaction
In doing the interaction, we communicate
To interact and communicate there has to be reasons.
In the classroom reasons to communicate should be invented.
What should be considered in a lesson?
• Learning Objectives
• Instructional materials
• Learning media to use
• Activities involved, including when to inform, to engage, and to enable
• Worksheets
• Language to use
STAGES OF THE LESSON:
Warming up:
Socialising
contextualising
Presenting concept
Practicing the concept
Summarising/producing the language using the concept.
Closing
Aspects that help teachers in planning more effective lesson
• Deeper understanding of THEIR particular lesson
• Understanding of the students background knowledge
• Skills in chunking activities to meet the Learning Objectives
• Skills in using language at the students level
What about the language to use in informing, engaging, and enabling?
Worksheet is mainly to get our English class more interactive
Interaction is about people and worksheet is just a tool
IINTERACTION IS THE HEART OF COMMUNICATION
Worksheet is a tool that encourages interaction
Teachers, as the spear head
They MUST always Move towards Professional and Personal Development
From today on you are granted as ‘Better Teachers’ with BIG smiles on your faces
