An Analysis of Classroom Activities Pursuant To Ef
An Analysis of Classroom Activities Pursuant To Ef
An Analysis of Classroom Activities Pursuant To Ef
ABSTRACT
teaching has activities based on the techniques the teacher used. As the
mention by Usman (1993:P.5).
“Teaching is important for learning because when someone learning
something they can get knowledge and some experience.”
Though, this basic definition of teaching also applies to the regular
classroom setting intechnical and integrated vocational schools programme.
But, in the teaching of practical skills, there are various teaching techniques
available to be adopted, just as in all other fields and to all teachers: the most
appropriate teaching teqhniqueto adopt in teaching technical and vocational
skills should be that which can motivate the students and sustain theirinterest
in the course of instruction.
The effectiveness of teaching process have impact for the students
understanding in leaning process. According to Marland and states (1996:
P.68)“students in Australian school describe a good teacher in the following
form: help you with your work, explain well so you can understand, is
friendly and easy to get on with, make lesson enjoyable,cares about you, has
a sense of humor, control the class well, and knows what he or she is talking
about.”At the same time, there has been much debate among teachers
educators concerning how teacher education can best foster effective
teaching taking account of the governments views on teacher training, the
teacher educators’ own professional views of how training is best conducted,
and the findings of research studies looking at aspect of effective teaching
and the impact of training.
Integrated vocational high school, which provides individuals with
the knowledge, skills and competencies and improvingtheir abilities in a
variety of ways, good religion, puts forward its function and qualitative
power according to country’seconomic situation. Therefore, the reason of
vocational schools is labor market, and its main goal is to meetthe demands
of business world and workforce for it. This aim is not against the political
stance of vocationaleducation: on the contrary, a common purpose supported
by public. In integrated vocational high school actually their really need
English for understanding the `tools of their department, because the
basic of vocatioanal high school is seldom uses classroom English. That
is way, we compolsory know about English language.Vocational school
is one of the component of education most directly concerned with the
acquisition of the knowledge and skills that required by workplace.Refer
to the education system structure of Indonesia, theterm of vocational school
has spitted into two meanings, in highereducation level and in secondary
education level. The vocational education inhigher education levels are
usually conducted at a universities or a polytechnics,whereas the vocational
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selected from his overall list of elements that are very related to teacher
behavior in the classroom.” The techniques to see the effective of
effective teaching for teacher in learning process and teaching process in
the classroom. The elements of effective teaching consist of academic
learning time, use of positive reinforcement, cues and feedback,
cooperative learning activities, classroom atmosphere, high order
questioning, direct instruction, and indirect teaching.
Academic Learning Time
Academic learning time in the classroom has important variable
how efficiently lesson are planned and how get started, how teachers
handles discipline, digressions, off-task behavior, and the teacher
handles transition will have an effect on students learning. Usually, in
classroom, Indonesian’s country has different rule of academic learning
time each meeting has 45 minutes and the teachers in two times
meeting(90 minutes).
Use of Positive Reinforcement
Based on the theory of reinforcement B.F Skinner in Hernas’
Thesis reinforcement is the specialist term in operant conditioning for
the stamping of stimulus associations and response habits that follows
the experience of reward. Skinner’s theory, as well as other
reinforcement technique was later applied to classroom settings with
the idea that using reinforces could increase the frequency of productive
behaviors and decrease the frequency of disruptive behaviors.
There are two kinds of reinforcement; positive and negative
reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is presenting a reward after a
desired behavior, whereas negative reinforcement is taking away and
aversive stimulus after a desired behavior.Basically, in classroom
situation, positive reinforcement is when teachers praise and reward
student for correct behavior. Negative reinforcement is when
punishment is coupled with positive experiences for correct behavior.
Studies have shown that specific praise is very effective, while general
praise is hot. In other words, saying, “ johnny, excellent job adding those
numbers,” “is much better than saying,” “great job, class.”
Cues and feedback
The use cues and feedback is connected for process questioning.
Through cueing, the teacher provides some helps to students for
answering question. While the feedback does not only correcting
students, but also offering them an assessment of how well when they
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individuals or
group in real
situation.
The teachers
instructs students
3 - Reading and writing
to write short Exercises
assignment.
technique technique
teaching she reaction to a
used and video.
classroom
activities.
The teacher
handling the
8 students’ task
behavior time
by time.
The teacher
handle learning
time.
2 The teacher A Teacher B
gave rewards always gave
when students score for
The Use of
have a good students
Positive
score and gave because
Reinforcement
punishment students.
when students
got bad score.
3 The teacher A The teacher
given the given the
students cues students cues
just in CD, TPS, just in CD,
SWE, CLGs’ TPS, SWE,
Cues and techniques. CLGs’
Feedback techniques.
The teacher
give the clue for The teacher
answer right give the clue
question. for answer
right question.
4 The teacher A The teacher B
designs a designs a
Co-operative learning learning
Learning problem or problem or
task and task and
further assigns further
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students to assigns
make some students to
small groups in make some
order to small groups
address the in order to
problem or address the
task problem or
collaboratively task
in elements CD, collaboratively
LC, and CLG. in elements
CD, LC, and
CLG.
5 The teacher A The teacher B
manages the manages the
Classroom
classroom classroom
atmosphere
almost all the almost all the
techniques. techniques.
6 The teacher A The teacher B
used higher used higher
Higher Order order question and order
Question in elements CD, question in
TPS, and SD. elements CD
and TPS.
b The teacher A The teacher B
used direct used direct
Direct instruction in instruction in
Instruction elements TPS, elements CD,
LC, SWE, CLG, TPS, LC, SWE,
and RV. CLG, and RV.
8 The teacher A The teacher B
make the make the
students more students more
enthusiastic if enthusiastic.
Indirect the teacher.
The teacher
Teaching The teacher manages the
manages the learning
learning activities
activities which which trigger
trigger high high
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frequency of frequency of
interactions interactions
among students among
in class students in
discussion and class
collaborative discussion and
learning group collaborative
learning
group.
and play a game. So they can use their logic in the learning
activities”
Based on the statement above, the teacher use some techniques
as a indicators to make the students to think critically in the class
discussion. Various techniques can make the students active.
When the researcher ask about the think air shares’ techniques,
the teacher use that techniques before start new material. She ask the
students about the material last meeting. The teacher give a reward for
the students whose can remember the material last meeting by use
technique think pair share. The teacher make sure the students
remember about the material last meeting before start new material.
When the students sharing about the lesson each other, they will getting
new information from friends, the teacher used learning cells’ technique
for make the students among two students sharing about the material
the teacher gave. She used learning cells’ technique in grade one about
text recount. When the researcher ask the teacher about the short
written exercise, the teacher answered as follow:
“Yes, of course every students must resume about the material they
had done learn, but not all the students can convey that resume,
around two or three students get a chance to convey their task to
the students and teacher.
Based on the teacher answer, the researcher conclude the teacher
called on the students randomly every the teacher gives the task to
make sure all the students brave and accustomed for convey their
opinion.
Collaborative learning group is one of the techniques the teacher
A used, when the researcher ask the teacher about collaborative
learning group the teacher statement is:
“Yes, in collaborative learning group there are three until five
students. Every students have a job each other, before start
discussion class the students choose who the leader from that group.
The leader can manage the group to be a solid group, so they can do
their jobs very well”
From the statement from the teacher, the researcher conclude
the teacher make the students work each other in the group. The next
question from the researcher is about student debate. She is the answer
The statement above indicates that the teacher give task for every
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students but they learn together with the group, so their group get score
until final examination.
The researcher ask about reacting a video’s technique. Based on
the statement, the teacher gave a treatment for the students. That
treatment for make a students do not feel bored with the subject.
The last question of interview is the class games’ technique the
teacher used in the classroom activities. She said game is really
important in learning process.The answer of the teacher can, the teacher
gave the games based on the mood the students, and the students can
play that games very well.
Teacher B
From the interview with teacher B, it is found that the teacher B
also used various kind of techniques teaching English in activities class.
From the result of interview with the teacher B, she said that:
“ yes, of course. I used class discussion technique when discuss
about text narrative, so I give task to the students to make a group
then they are I instruct to search generic structure in the text,
search the characteristics, all the items about the text. Usually I
force the students to write their opinion, so I know whose the
students work or not usually the weakness in class discussion
technique is just smart students have opinion in the group. The
reason why I instruct the students to write their opinion they can
get individuals’ score and groups’ score”
From that statement, the teacher used the class discussion
technique and the teacher invite all the students to give their aspiration
in the group. So, the students can get the information from the friends.
When the researcher ask about the think pair share technique, the
answer of the teacherthe researcher concluded the teacher is really
good to used this technique, the teacher used the technique very well by
her own and the teacher become the students more active. researcher
about learning cell technique, the teacher said yes but seldom I used
that. The teacher used learning cell technique for certain material. The
answer of the teacher can be seen as follow:
“Actually I seldom used learning cell technique but when I used
learning cell technique, I instruct the students to write short
conversation. If the time is long I can used learning cell technique
and I can test the students’ speaking by tell about short
conversation their had done write.
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materials last meeting before start new material but teacher A and
teacher B invite all students to give their participations in think pair
share technique.
The next technique is a learning cell, teacher A used learning cell
technique and teacher B used learning cell technique sometimes, by
used this technique teacher A and teacher B ask the students to work
together about the materials and the students prepare for the
assignment. Next short written exercise, teacher A always used this
technique after learn but teacher B very seldom used this technique,
teacher B instruct the students to spoken in front of friends and teacher
A instruct the students to write the material based on the students’
opinion. The next about collaborative learning group technique, teacher
A used this technique for become the students discuss each other in the
class about the material, same with teacher A teacher B used this
technique but very seldom. Next, student debate technique, teacher A
used this technique for make the students give their participations in the
group and teacher B does not used this technique. Then, reaction to a
video, teacher A and teacher B used video in classroom activities and the
student more active in the class when the teacher used this technique.
Last, class game technique, every meetings teacher A and teacher B used
games in the classroom activities.
The students very interest with the material when the teacher
include the game in learning process. In technique teaching the teachers
A and B not implemented all the indicators of teaching technique.
Teacher A just not implemented one indicator from teaching technique.
The indicator from the technique is the teacher A does not ask the
students to use logic to evaluate their position. There some reason why
the teacher does not implemented this indicators because the teacher A
became the students to evaluate their position in process of discussion.
In discussion technique the teacher make sure all students gave the
participant so the teacher can see the evaluate their position.
Teacher B does not implemented the indicators from the
technique in two indicators. The indicators are the teacher does not ask
the students to use logic to evaluate their position and the teacher B
does not implemented student debate technique. The reason from the
teacher B why dose not implemented the use logic to evaluate because
the teacher B saw the evaluate from the students when the students
discussion in their class. The second reason why the teacher does not
implemented students debate in the learning process because the
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teacher just teach the grade one and there is no the material that
support to implemented student debate.
According to HisyamZaini student debate and debate method is
method that can help the students for convey their idea and opinions.
There are some excess from debate method, the excess are to make the
students brave to talk each other and to be responsible for the
knowledge obtained in the debate process.
From the finding and the theories above, it can be said almost all
the techniques of the teaching implemented by both of teachers. How
ever there is one technique that one of the teacher does not
implemented in learning process, the technique is student debate.
The classroom activities used by teachers in implementation techniques
teaching.
Based on the finding of the teachers A and teacher B In this step,
the researcher used checklist observation and notes to get the result of
the question about the classroom activities used by teachers in
implementation technique teaching in integrated vocational school. The
explanation is a follow:
Based on the data of checklist observation and notes the
researcher got in implementation classroom activities used small groups
in classroom activities. There are three classroom activities in small
group technique such as pair-share, buzz groups, and three steps
interview. Teacher A and Teacher B used this classroom activities.
Teacher A used pair-share technique by instruct the students to think
what the students want to write around 30 second, one minute to make
a abstract what they want to write, next the teacher gave the time 3 until
5 minutes for the students to explain the result in front of their friend in
theclass. teacher A implemented this classroom activity for become the
students more active in the class and the students connect each other
and for classroom activities buzz groups the teacher implemented and
the teacher divided the students in 4-5 students in one group. Teacher A
does not implemented three steps interviews’ classroom activities in her
classroom activities because teacher A used debate class for become the
students ask and answer each other.
Teacher B same with teacher A, she implemented two classroom
activities in technique small group. Techer B implemented that
classroom activities pair-share to became the students connect each
other by discuss about the result of the students’ write before that the
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teacher gave the students time to write and chose the material, and
teacher B implemented buzz groups in classroom activities, teacher B
divided the students in 3-5 students in one group and the teacher gave
the participant in large classes. The teacher make sure the students talk
about the issue, the teacher calls on some of the groups to report and
ask other group to convey the conclusion by raise hands. Same with
teacher A teacher B does not used three steps interview because the
teacher got the information from the report of discussion in the buzz
groups .
According to Jhones, there is strong empirical evidence that
active involvement in the learning process in vitally important in two
areas: for the mastery of the skills, such as critical thinking and problem
solving that got from discussion in the group discussion.
Based on statement above the researcher concluded that the
teacher A and teacher B in classroom need pair share and become the
students some groups for make the students more active and the
classroom activities will be good in the classroom.
From the data of checklist observation and notes the researcher
got in implementation classroom activities whole class involvement.
Whole class involvement there are three classroom activities. First, the
teacher check, whole class debate, and role play and debates. From that
classroom activities teacher A implemented all off classroom activities
and teacher B does not implemented all of classroom activities in her
classroom activities. teacher A deliver material to the students around
15 until 20 minutes to clearly the material next continue the next
project, and the teacher A used the class debate to become the students
more active to convey their opinions, the teacher A assign the students
to write short assignment to assess the extent to which students
understanding the material. The students make short assignment to
show they understand about the material. The teacher A instruct the
students to gave the arguments each other in debate, for the ending the
teacher instruct the students to summary arguments for each other.
Based on the statement from Frederic, taking advantage from
debate class. The advantages of the dividing aisle in large teacher halls,
the instructor assigns sides of debate to the two halves of the class or by
prearrangement, students sit on the side of the room representing the
point of view of debate.
The researcher can conclude that the teachers used whole class
involvement And students debate in classroom activities based on the
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materials, if the materials needs to use debate class the teachers used
whole class involvement activities.
The data of checklist observation and notes the researcher got in
implementation classroom activities Reading and writing exercise have
two indicators classroom activities. First, close reading and second
classroom assessment. From both of classroom activities teacher A and
teacher B used reading and writing exercise. Teacher A just
implemented classroom assessment in her classroom activities, teacher
A instruct the students to write short assignment to assess the extent to
which students understanding the material. The students make short
assignment to show they understand about the material. Teacher B
implementation both of classroom activities, teacher B implemented
close reading, teacher assigns the students to write some topics after
that the students read the result of the write the topics and teacher B
implemented classroom assessment, teachers B instructs students to
write short assignment to assess the extent to which students
understanding the material. The students make short assignment to
show they understand about the material.
Based on the data above the researcher concludes that the
teacher A and teacher B gave the students activities in the class based on
the skills of the students.
The classroom activities pursuant to techniques suit the effective teaching
theory.
After managing the data, the researcher found that the teacher A used
all techniques teaching and teacher B used five techniques teaching English.
Theresearcher got some information about it. The description about the data
isdescribed as follow:
Class Discussion
The teacher apply class discussion technique and teacher A and
Teacher B drive her students to think critically and lead her students to
use their logic so that they evaluate their position in a class discussion,
teachers said actually in the class there are learning groups, it is finished
make when the class wants to start a lesson in the early semester but
every meeting the group must change the students. In every group the
students must combine it is mean there are smart student, there are
diligent students and there are slowly student, so they can help each
other, usually to lead the students the teachers usually show some
videos to the students and play a game, because the students really like
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watch and play a game. So from the technique the teachers used can
used can become the students used logic in the learning activities.
Based on that statement, teachers use some techniques as a
indicators to make the students to think critically in the class discussion.
Various techniques can make the students active. Teacher B and teacher
A invite all students to give aspiration in the group become the students
get information from their friends.
Think Pair Share
When the researcher ask about the think air shares’ techniques,
the teacher A and teacher B use that techniques before start new
material. Researcher the students about the material last meeting. In the
classroom before the teacher start the classroom activities in learning
process the students get ice breaking from the teachers. Ice breaking
like a review the material last meeting. For remember the students
about the material last week the teacher gave the games and who
remember the material by use game that student get reward like a score
or point. From that techniques the teacher A give a reward for the
students whose can remember the material last meeting apply
technique think pair share. Teacher make sure the students remember
about the material last meeting before start new material. Teacher B
used this technique for make the students more active and the students
implemented this technique very well, the students can remember all
material start from small things until big things.
Learning Cell
When the students sharing about the lesson each other, they will
getting new information from friends, the teacher A used learning cells’
technique for make the students among two students sharing about the
material the teacher gave. She used learning cells’ technique in grade
one about text recount. Teacher A really clearly implemented this
technique to the students. Teacher A always instruct the students
become more active in the class. That class no one student can silent, all
the students talk about the topic with their partner. The teacher A used
learning cells’ technique for increase the students’ reading ability.
Short written exercise
When the researcher ask the teacher about the short written exercise,
the teacher A used this technique, but teacher B does not used this technique.
Teacher A make sure every students make a resume about the material they
had done learn. From that technique all the students make a resume but who
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can answer the questions from the teachers they get a chance to convey their
task. That classroom activity can make the students active and want to be
winner to get a score from the teacher.
Based on the teacher A answer, the researcher conclude the
teacher called on the students randomly every the teacher gives the task
to make sure all the students brave and accustomed for convey their
opinion.
Collaborative Learning Group
Collaborative learning group is one of the techniques the teacher
A used, when the researcher ask the teacher about collaborative
learning group. From the statement from the teacher, the researcher
conclude the teacher make the students work each other in the group.
The teacher become the students in several groups, each group there are
for until five students. Every groups have jobs. That technique really
effective for students because the students can work together in the
group and have a leader for manage every works.
Student debate
The next question from the researcher is about student debate.
Teacher A used student debate technique and teacher A used student
debates’ technique just for several material not all material, for example
talk about narrative text between first group and second group different
assumption about text narrative. Every groups responsibility with their
group until final examination so the score is same so the smarts’
students and generals’ students responsibility with their friends so they
know about their job each other. From that activity the researcher
indicates that the teacher give task for every students but they learn
together with the group, so their group get score until final examination.
Reacting A Video
The researcher also ask about reacting a video’s technique. From
that technique the teacher A and B become the students spirit again in
learning process. From kinds of techniques the teachers always showed
the videos that have connect with the material they learn. The teacher
gave a treatment for the students. That treatment for make a students
do not feel bored with the subject.
Class Game
The last question of interview is the class games’ technique the
teacher A and teacher B used in the classroom activities. The teachers
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