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Thursday, October 4, 2012

LESSON PLAN (GROUP 8 KELAS A)


LESSON PLAN
Identity
Subject                                    : English
Class/Semester                        : VI/1
Main Topic                              : My Classroom
Time Allocation                      : 60 minutes
Skill                                         : Listening-Speaking

A.    Standard Competence :
Memahami instruksi dan informasi sangat sederhana baik secara tindakan maupun bahasa dalam konteks sekitar peserta didik.

B.     Basic Competence :
1.1 Merespon instruksi sangat sederhana dengan tindakan secara berterima dalam kegiatan di dalam dan luar kelas.

C.    Learning Objectives :
In the end of lesson, students are expected to be able to:
·         mention the keywords related to the topic
·         understand commands in classroom situation
·         express commands in classroom situation
 
D. Indicator :
1.1.1  Students are able to mention eight things in the classroom (blackboard, cupboard, window, atlas, door, chair, table, and table cloth) properly.
1.1.2 Students are able to act the commands in classroom context with correct actions properly.
1.1.3 Students are able to use the expressions of giving commands in classroom context properly.

E.     Main Material
1.      Keywords: blackboard, cupboard, window, atlas, door, chair, table, table cloth, open, close, put, clean, sweep.
2.      Expressions of giving the command:
“Dini, open the door, please!”   
3.      Expressions of respond the command:
“Alright”
“Okay”
4.      Title of the story: “Let’s Clean Our Classroom Together”

Let’s Clean Our Classroom Together
Hello friends, my name is Iqbal. I am a 6th grader student. I am the captain of the class. Today, me and my friends will clean the class together. I have to lead all of my friends. I also give them different tasks. I ask Dimas to clean the blackboard.

I say, “Dimas, clean the blackboard, please!”
Dimas says, “ Alright, captain.”

I look at the floor. The floor is dirty. I ask Dini to sweep the floor.
I say, “Dini, sweep the floor, please!”
Dini says, “Okay, captain.”

I also see many plastics on the floor. I ask Dany to put the plastics into the trash can.
I say, “Dany, put the plastics into the trash can, please!”
Dany says, “Alright, captain.”

After that, I walk around the class. Suddenly, I feel the air is so hot. I ask Fitria to open the window.
I say, “ Fitria, open the window, please!”
Fitria says, “Okay, captain.”

I see that the window is dusty. I ask Risma to clean the window.
I say, “Risma, clean the window, please!”
Risma says, “Alright, captain.”

After all of my friends get their own tasks, they work very seriously. We finish cleaning the class fast.

I say, “Ok friends, thank you for your hardwork. Now the class is clean. We can go home now. Let’s go home together.”

We walk out from the classroom. But, the door is still opened. I ask Asep
I say, “Asep, close the door, please!”
Asep says, “Okay, captain.”

Then we go home together.

5.      Title of the song: “They Are in My Classroom”
Cupboard, blackboard in my class
Also tables, chairs, atlas
window, door, and tablecloth
Hey!
They’re in my classroom

6.      The rule of game “Do What I Say”:
·         Students sit on their chairs.
·         Students and teacher sing the song “They Are in My Classroom” together while students pass over a chalk to another student in their left-hand side.
·         When teacher says “Stop!”, then students have to stop singing. Whoever holds the chalk will have to give a command to his/her friend based on their choice. e.g. “Trinne, close the window, please!” The commands should be related with the previous topic about eight things in the classroom.
·         After that, students continue passing the chalk and do the same thing. The game is stopped if it is considered enough by teacher.

F.     Learning method
Storytelling, song, and game.

G.    Media and Source
1.      Puppet named Iqbal
2.      Chalk / marker
3.      Kurniawan, Dra. Rita and Partini, Dra. Naning. 2006. Speed Up English 6. Jakarta: Yudhistira.

H.    Activities

Pre-Activity
·         Teacher conditions the students.
·         Teacher greets the students.
·         Teacher checks students’ attendance.
·         Teacher asks one student to close the door. e.g. “Trinne, close the door, please!”
·         Teacher aksk one another student to clean the board e.g “Febby, clean the board, please!”
·         Teacher introduces the realia of things in the classroom. e.g. blackboard, cupboard, window, atlas, door, chair, table, and table cloth, e.g. “What is this?”
·         Teacher asks the students to repeat the pronunciation of the name of each things in the classroom.
·         Students are introduced to the song related to the material.
·         Students and teacher sing the song together.

Main Activity
·         Students are introduced to the character of puppet in the story named Iqbal.
·         Students listen to the story told by teacher (students are involved in the story).
·         Students are asked the questions related to the story orally, e.g. “What are they doing in the classroom?”, “What did Iqbal say to Dimas?” => “Dimas, clean the blackboard, please!” (this is part of students’ assessment by speaking)
·         Teacher instructs students to play the game “Do what I say”.
·         Teacher explains the rule of the game.
·         Students play the game (this is part of assessment by speaking).




Post activity
·         Teacher reviews the activities by asking one of students to give a command to another student. e.g teacher: “ Retna, what will you say if you want your friend to close the door?” (this is part of assessment by speaking).
·         Teacher asks the students which activity that they like.
·         Teacher closes the lesson.

5 comments:

  1. Okay friends, I'd like to comment on your lesson plan. Basically, your lesson plan is really good. So I want to give comment only in terms of story and assessment.

    Firstly, it is really good that your lesson plan using story as the materials because "stories brings many benefits to young learner classroom" (Cameron, 2001: 160). One of the benefits is "children likes stories" (Slatterly & Willis cited in Shin) so they will listen to the story well. But, in your lesson plan, i cannot find the role play of the story. Actually, it is good for teacher if he/she give a role play to the students so the students will engage to the story. Role play also can help the students to practice their speaking skills as Slatterly & Willis (Shin, p. 33) said that "you can use stories to help children practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing." Cameron (2001: 176) also said "if the teacher reads the narrative and children dress up and act out the dialogue, it provides useful repeated practice in the process". Because you are focused on listening and speaking, I think you can make a role play from the story.

    Lastly, I want to give comment on the assessment. In your lesson plan, you already assess the speaking with speaking assessment in the game. It is good to assess the speaking skill in game because as Hughes (2007: 201) said that " Children enjoy stories and play. If we want them to become engaged in the test, the task should reflect this. Games can include versions of kind of word games to be found in comics and puzzle books". The thing that I'm confused is about how can you know that the students have already achieved the learning goal. I mean in your lesson plan, there is no rubric to measure their speaking ability.

    Resources
    Cameron, L. (2001). Teaching Languages to Young Learners. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Shin, J. K. Teaching English to Young Learners. Baltimore : Unpublished.
    Hughes, A. (2007). Testing for Language Teachers (2nd Edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.

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  2. Thank you for your comment, Linta.
    First of all, I want to give a response about the role play. Actually, when we say students are involved in the story, there is a kind of role play. When teacher tells the story at the first time, students are involved immediately. All of the students are asked to imitate the action based on the commands right after the teacher gives the command within the story. We do this because we think that if students are asked to do a role play in separated time from the first time of story telling, then we are afraid that the time is not sufficient. We think that our choice hopefully will be time-effective.
    In our lesson plan, the students' assessment are: answer the questions based on the story (after story-telling activity), act the commands correctly (in the game "Do What I Say"), and to give appropriate response when teacher reviews the lesson(in the post activity). At first, we think that when students are able to do things above, then their comprehension and speaking ability are considered increased. But, yes, we realized that we need some exact measurement of speaking ability. Could you give us some example of how to make a rubric to measure speaking ability?
    Thank you for your suggestion.

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  3. firstly, i want to tell you guys that you really did a great job in making this lesson plan. congratulation.
    the activities are varied enough for elementary students and can facilitate some multiple intelligence such as verbal and interpersonal intelligence.
    secondly, i like the way you put the assessment into the activities. by not letting the students know that they are being assessed, we can assess their genuine ability. some students sometime get too nervous when they are doing a test, so that the test may not be really measures their true ability.
    Shaaban (2005) states that Assessment should be congruent (in harmony) with learning; interactional rather than isolated.
    thirdly, i'm questioning about your assessment since your assessment tool has a lack point as well. especially related to the assessing rubric. since you didn't put the rubric so we have no idea how you will measure your students' speaking ability.Davis states that Develop clear criteria for judging students' work is necessary to make the assessment reliable. Rust (2002) also supports this by stating that Explicitness in terms of learning outcomes and assessment criteria is vitally important in attempting to achieve reliability. my suggestion is to make a clear assessing rubric that matches students' level. for example, for elementary students u can put criteria such as Fluency and Pronunciation. you can decide the range by yourself.
    Lastly, is there any written test here? such as multiple choice form test? since bu Ika told us to make some ^^

    references
    Cameron, L.2001. Teaching languages to young learners. Cambridge University Press.
    Rust, Chris.2002.Guide to assessment. University of Salford.
    Shaaban, K.2005. Assessment of young learners. English Teaching Forum, 43 (1), pp. 34-40.

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  5. Generally, this lesson plan shows us an attractive learning. This lesson plan acquires the students to brainstorm the material that they are going to learn easily. The brainstorming activity here is carried out by introducing the students some common activities which they frequently do in the classroom such as cleaning the black/whiteboard, closing the door, opening the windows, etc. This is assumed as opening activity that will lead to meaningful learning. Meaningful learning will lead toward better long-term retention than rote learning (Brown, 2001: 57). As stated by Brown, one of principle that we should keep in mind is if we are trying to introduce a new material or concept, we have to attempt to anchor it in students’ existing knowledge so that it becomes associated with something they already known. Then, this lesson plan also combines the use of song, story and games. The story in this lesson plan becomes the central to make students understand about the overall learning. Stories offer a whole imaginary world, created by language that children can enter and enjoy, learning language as they go (Cameron, 2005: 159).

    Next activity that I want to question is whether the introduction of keywords related to the material is given just by using the real object (realia) or some pictures or both. I suggest using both of them since the use of pictures will attract the students more intensively. Besides in the story telling section, we can use the pictures as well. As I can see in the media of this lesson plan, the media is just puppet and chalk (for games). There is no picture attached as media in it. It is in mutual accord with the principle of using pictures as proposed by Harmer.
    1. Pictures are extremely useful for a variety of communication activities. Since the skills target in this lesson plan are listening and speaking, in that case pictures will be very appropriate.
    2. One of the most appropriate uses for pictures if for presenting and checking of meaning. I think, this principle can support the use of pictures in this lesson plan.
    3. Pictures of various kinds are often used to make work more appealing.
    4. Pictures are useful for getting students to predict what is coming next in a lesson.
    5. Pictures can stimulate questions.

    Next one, since this is the lesson plan for sixth grader, I suggest that we can explain a little bit about grammatical concept at the end of session. In this case, for instance the pattern of giving commands in general. Some grammatical concepts, especially the upper levels of childhood, can be called to learners’ attention by showing them certain patterns and examples (Brown, 2001: 57). Hence, we can make sure that all students will get the knowledge about how to give a command.

    For the assessment section, I think the way used in this lesson plan has been good enough. I decide it good from the principle as stated by Cameron that assessment should, like teaching and learning, be interactional rather than an isolated, sole experience. I think the activity attached in post activity probably can measure the students’ understanding because that is suitable with their classroom experience. So, the assessment in this post activity is a kind of formative assessment. Formative assessment aims to inform on-going teaching and learning by providing immediate feedback (Cameroon, 2005: 222). I considered this type of assessment has been able to measure students’ knowledge unless the teacher can ensure that each students knows how to give a command; one of the way is by teaching a bit pattern of language stated in previous paragraph.

    References
    Brown, D. H. 2001. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy,
    2nd ed. Pearson Education Company.
    Cameroon, L. 2001. Teaching Language to Young Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge
    University Press.
    Harmer, J. 2007. The Practice of Language Teaching, 4th ed. Pearson Education Ltd.


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