Nurul Ramadhayani

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Week 1 Micro Teaching

 Micro Teaching

Microteaching is an innovative method of training wherein the teacher trainee, or a

student-teacher, conducts a class for a small group of students for a short time. This is
intended to enhance the skills of teachers. By focusing on a specific skill at one time, this
approach has proved to be beneficial. Therefore, it is important to have micro-teaching
skills.

The basics of micro-teaching revolve around the six ideas given below.

- Plan
By asking the teachers to conduct a class for a small group of students, it gives teachers the
bandwidth to plan appropriately. First, they plan the lesson and what they want to do in the
class. Much like lesson planning, but it won't be a full-fledged class. That is the first step in
the micro-teaching cycle. The planning is done according to the instructions given by the
trainer.

- Teach
The next step is to teach. The trainee teaches the class according to the plan and conveys
what they had prepared for. The trainer will supervise this.

- Observe
The trainer observes the class conducted by the trainee teacher, and comments and
feedback are provided based on the observations made.

- Re-plan
Based on the feedback provided by the trainer and reflection upon one's performance, the
teacher trainee re-plans their strategies and approach. This can be the presentation style,
communication, or any necessary teaching skill. Creating a microteaching lesson plan is not
an easy task. One should be mindful of all aspects.

- Re-teach
The same steps are repeated, and the trainee teaches the class again. Microteaching is a
cyclic process and heavily depends on the trial and error method.
 - Re-observe
Again, the teaching is observed, and feedback is provided.

 Curriculum 13

Curriculum 2013 (K-13) is the applicable curriculum in the Indonesian Education System.
This curriculum is a permanent one implemented by the government to replace the 2006
Curriculum (often referred to as the Education Unit Level Curriculum), which has been in
effect for approximately 6 years.

The purpose of the 2013 curriculum is to prepare Indonesian people to have the ability to
live as individuals and citizens who are faithful, productive, creative, innovative, effective,
and able to contribute to the life of society, nation, state, and world civilization.

According to Law Number 20 of 2003, Article 1 Paragraph (19), the curriculum is a set of
plans and arrangements regarding the objectives, content, learning materials, and methods
used to implement learning activities to achieve specific educational goals.

The development of the 2013 curriculum is a follow-up to the Competency-Based

Curriculum Development, which was initiated in 2004, and the 2006 KTSP, which includes
integrated attitudes, knowledge, and skills competencies.

 Scientific Approach

In the 2013 curriculum perspective, a scientific approach is an approach that uses scientific
stages in the learning process.

Five stages must be done in learning with a scientific approach.

1. Observing
Observing means seeing, reading, hearing, and listening to things or phenomena around
life. By observing, students will find various problems to be solved in learning. For this
observing stage to run effectively, the teacher must be observant in providing objects to be
observed by students according to the context of the material to be taught.

2. Asking
Asking means questioning something that is a problem from what has been observed. In
the context of asking questions, students should be encouraged to ask questions and
formulate problems, even if necessary, to make hypotheses.
3. Try
Trying means doing something to solve the problem while at the same time finding the
truth of the hypothesis. The way to try can be by doing experiments and using formulas in
calculating. Working collaboratively is best in the testing phase.

4. Reasoning
Reasoning means understanding, analyzing, and relating one concept to another. In
reasoning, students are encouraged to look for various reference sources manually and
digitally. Existing reference sources are used to process experimental data. In the end, a
conclusion will be obtained from formulating the problem and hypotheses that have
previously been made. The teacher's role at this reasoning stage is to monitor one group to
another to provide scaffolding.

5. Presenting
Presenting means communicating the results of group work that have been processed and
concluded. In presenting, students can use technology products, such as LCD projectors,
laptops, and PowerPoint.