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My Memorable Teaching Experience

When I was a seventh semester college student, I was given a chance to be a teacher trainee. I experienced it for about three months and I chose one of the junior high schools in Magelang.

At first, I was invited to observe the class I would teach by one of the English teachers there. After arriving in the classroom, I was asked to introduce myself to the students. Then, I sat in one of the chairs there. I observed how the teacher taught and how the students were. I did this observation for two weeks.

After undertaking the observation, I started to teach. I taught seventh grade students.  At the beginning, I felt I had to struggle more and more. Being a teacher was a challenging job. I not only had to prepare the materials but also be able to create such kind of atmosphere in which the students would be interested in teaching learning process. I learnt that actually the important things I should do before teaching the lessons were gaining the students’ attention and make them motivated.

I taught the students for about sixteen meetings. In order to make the students interested in the teaching learning process, I attempted to apply various teaching methods like cooperative learning. They seemed very excited. One more thing, they were happy when I gave feedback to their works. In the last meeting, there were some students who gave me gifts. I was very happy indeed.

That was my memorable teaching experience. I learnt many things. For me, when I taught, I learnt something.