The Example of Reflective Journal

       In our fourth meeting we learned about technology and training, and effective questioning. The first group was Fernando and Almira’s group, they explained some of technologies that can help us in training. They explained it well and it seems that Almira tried to improve her body language during her presentation, I guess she would like to practice what Lara’s group explained us last week. For their material, I was not really think it was interesting. Maybe because of the book was produced in 2001 so the technology mentioned by the book is not up to date. All technologies that both of them explained has been used by us in our daily teaching. Fortunately, after discussing the technologies that we had already familiar with, in feedback session Pak Luluk gave us some advises related to technology. Honestly, I was rarely paying attention on them, such as coming earlier to check the projector or computer that I am going to use for presentation, asking or trying to know my learner at our first meeting, and trying to learn how to fix any problem with the devices (I used to give up before trying to fix them).

       The following group was explaining the art of effective learning and it was more interesting. I learnt lots of things that I’ve never knew before. During my teaching and learning process, I only knew how to see whether my student is ready to answer my question or not and I have to save their face by not asking them if they are not ready. During their presentation, I was thinking what type of question I frequently used in my classes, then asking to my self why do I love to ask my students opinion-based questions. The last but not least, I learnt one wisdom sentence from Fred during his presentation and it was rooted in my mind. He said “when we ask our student whether they have questions or not, don’t just give them few second to think, they need more time to reorganize and find what they haven’t understood from our explanation”.