INNOVATIVE ENGLISH TEACHING

IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Silvester Goridus Sukur

ICE BREAKER
1. Write your name on a piece of paper, go around the room and find the person whose name is on the paper.
Ratih: Excuse me. Are you ? Jack : Yes, I am. Ratih: Oh hello. Im Ratih. Jack : How do you do? Ratih: How do you do?

2. Stand up around the class, start introduce your name. The next student mentions the previous students name and introduce your own name.

TODAYS MAIN POINTS

1. Problems in English Teaching 2. Creating an Interesting Classroom Situation 3. Creating Good Teaching Atmosphere 4. Creating Learner-Oriented Teaching 5. Lesson Preparation 6. Teaching Steps 7. Interactive Classroom Management

PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH TEACHING TO SD STUDENTS

Students lack learning motivation Students are sleepy Students are uninterested

PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH TEACHING TO SD STUDENTS

Teachers lack innovative ideas in creating an interesting learningteaching process Boring class/teaching/teacher The lack of quality English textbooks

PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH TEACHING TO SD STUDENTS

Need between English as a means of communication for the students and the demand to pass the school final tests. Limited time to practise English in class for the communicative sake and the time to prepare the students for the exam.

PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH TEACHING TO SD STUDENTS

Noisy when the students do games in the classroom. Too many students in one class.

HOW TO CREATE AN INTERESTING CLASSROOM SITUATION

Create interesting/fun games Create interesting/fun class activities Divide you time when teaching

ASPECTS THAT DETERMINE AN INTERESTING CLASSROOM SITUATION

Teacher Students Quality Teaching Material (Textbook) Classroom Activities

TEACHER
Plays a very important role. Creates interesting, interactive, entertaining classroom situation creatively and innovatively Always explores new teaching techniques If fails, it leads to creating a boring classroom situation

STUDENTS
Play a significant role, too Elementary School students only pay attention to interesting and fun lesson. A traditional-knowledge-transfer based lesson causes a quiet-dead class So, involve the students actively A teacher must be creative and innovative either in presenting the lesson or in creating interesting classroom activities.

QUALITY ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

Not all English textbooks for elementary school students are qualified. Quality textbooks: fulfill curriculum demand and provide the teachers with complete, comprehensive, and interesting material for standard English learning-teaching.

The books resourceful: integrate four skills of English listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a comprehensive format

WHAT IS A QUALITY ENGLISH TEXTBOOK?

Contains Standard Teaching Material: Covers Clear Target Language Integrates Four Skills of English:
Listening Speaking Reading Writing

 Covers Material for:

Presentation: Practice Production Assessment Tool Test

Example:
Taken From:

English for Real Communication:

An Integrated Course for Elementary School Students 3

By Silvester Goridus Sukur Grasindo

 Interesting & Fun Through:

Games
Interesting Class Activities

Example: Game Tic Tac Toe

Taken From: English for Real Communication: Elementary School 1 By Silvester Goridus Sukur - Grasindo

STEPS
Suruh siswa duduk berpasangan. Tiap siswa dalam satu kelompok diberi tiga chips atau benda apa saja untuk menggantikan chip dengan ukuran atau warna berbeda. Secara bergantian mereka membuat kalimat berdasarkan benda-benda dalam kotak itu seperti It is a table lalu menempatkan chip mereka.

 Penempatan chip tidak boleh melompati satu kotak. Pemenangnya adalah siswa yang berhasil menempatkan chip atau alat bantu lain secara diagonal, vertikal, atau horizontal. Contoh pemenangnya adalah seperti berikut.

Example: Game Result

Example: Interesting Class Activities

Siapkan sejumlah kotak kecil (tergantung jumlah siswa yang akan anda bagi di kelas) yang sisinya ditulisi dengan good morning, good afternoon, good evening, & hello atau hi seperti ini:

Taken From: English for Real Communication: Elementary School 1 By Silvester Goridus Sukur - Grasindo

 Kelompokkan siswa dengan anggota sekitar 8 10 orang per kelompok. Suruh mereka berdiri berkelompok membentuk lingkaran.

Bagikan kotak-kotak yang telah anda siapkan kepada tiap kelompok.

 Tiap kelompok akan melemparkan kotak tersebut ke atas dan menjatuhkannya.

Tiap orang dalam kelompok harus cepat-cepatan atau bersama-sama mengucapkan sapaan yang ada pada sisi atas kotak itu, misalnya pada posisi kotak di atas, sapaan yang terlihat adalah good afternoon, maka siswa mengucapkan good afternoon.

 Work in pairs and complete your table. Example: Student A: What colour is the apple?
Student B: It is green.

Student A

THINGS

COLOUR

Apple
Teapot Car Cupboard Blanket Pan

green

Sofa

 Work in pairs and complete your table. Example: Student A: What colour is the apple?
Student B: It is green.

Student B

THINGS

COLOUR

Apple
Teapot Car Cupboard Blanket Pan

Sofa

 Has Resourceful Teachers Book:

Teaching Techniques/Steps, such as:
Determining the topic Showing the target of the lesson Showing the target language Elicitation/Brainstorming Steps Steps of Presentation Clear-easy steps for classroom activities: Listening Speaking Reading Writing

Fun and Interesting Games

Sample:
ENGLISH FOR REAL COMMUNICATION: An Integrated Course for Elementary School Students (Levels 1 6)
By Silvester Goridus Sukur

Published by Penerbit Grasindo 2008

Example:
TOPIC: ACTIVITIES IN PROGRESS

TARGET OF THE LESSON:

Siswa mampu berkomunikasi dengan wajar dan lancar secara benar dengan kalimat sederhana dalam konteks pembicaraan tentang apa yang sedang terjadi atau apa yang sedang dilakukan oleh seseorang saat ini.

 TARGET LANGUAGE
Present Continuous Tense
What are you doing now? I am reading a book now.
What is he doing now? He is reading a book now. What is she doing now? She is sleeping now.

 Are you reading an English book? Yes, I am. Are you sleeping? No, I am not. Is he sleeping? Yes, he is. Is he studying? No, he isnt. Is she cooking? Yes, she is. Is she writing a letter? No, she isnt.

ELLICITATION STEPS
Ajukan kepada siswa pertanyaan: What are you doing now? Tunjuklah pada 1 siswa lalu tanyakan ke semua siswa yang lain: What is he doing? Tunjuklah pada 1 siswi lalu tanyakan ke semua siswa yang lain: What is she doing?

STEPS OF PRESENTATION
Ajukan pertanyaan ke 1 orang siswa tertentu sambil menuliskan pertanyaan Anda di papan tulis: What are you doing? Bantulah siswa itu menjawab pertanyaan anda dan menuliskan jawabannya di papan tulis, misalnya: I am studying. Ajukan pertanyaan yang sama ke seluruh kelas dan menuliskannya di papan tulis: What are you doing?

 Bantulah mereka menjawab bersama-sama dan menuliskan jawaban mereka di papan tulis, misalnya: We are studying. Tunjuklah pada 1 siswa dan tanyakan ke semua siswa yang lain: What is he doing? Bantu siswa menjawab dan menuliskan jawaban di papan tulis, misalnya: He is smiling. Lalu tunjuklah pada 1 siswi dan tanyakan ke semua siswa: What is she doing?

 Bantu siswa menjawab dan tuliskan jawaban di papan tulis, misalnya: She is writing. Dengan demikian, akan terbentuk pola kalimat seperti berikut: What are you doing? I am studying. What is he doing? He is smiling. What is she doing? She is writing.

STEPS FOR EACH ACTIVITY

Each activity listening, speaking, reading, writing has complete steps in the teachers book.

CREATING GOOD TEACHING ATMOSPHERE

A good class atmosphere is very important to make the English learning-teaching process run well so that the students can achieve their English competency. In this context, the teacher has a central part to create a good class atmosphere. Therefore, a teacher should:
1. Care 2. Build a dialogic relationship with the students 3. Be willing to listen and pay attention to 4. Be open-minded 5. Be ready to accept inputs 6. Respect 7. Be willing to sacrifice 8. Laugh and play with the students 9. Build a team 10. Compliment and give constructive criticism

CREATING LEARNER-ORIENTED TEACHING

Learner-oriented teaching focuses on the students need. The main priority is to maximally fulfill what the students need in learning English. The learners or the students become the central point to consider. This can be reflected in all class activities.

LESSON PLAN/ PREPARATION

See the topic Understand the target language Determine the Presentation Steps Prepare the Class Activities for
Practice
Guided Freer

Production

Prepare the suitable games

TEACHING STEPS
Elicitation Presentation Practice Production

INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Seating Arrangement Managing the lesson
Stand up when directing an activity Eye contact Use pauses to punctuate and Vary the Voice Be clear

 Organising Classroom Activities

Individual Work

Pair work Group work Classical work

Teachers role in class

Controller Organizer Assessor Participant Resource Observer Performer Teaching aid

HOW TO MAKE RPP

Consider the following things:
1. The competency that must be achieved. 2. Indicators which describe the achievement. 3. The target of the learning-teaching process. 4. The material or the topic of the learning. 5. Teaching methods. 6. The stages to apply the methods. 7. Learning sources and media. 8. Assessment to measure the learning target.

CHARACTERISTICS
Contain the stages of teaching. The steps should be systematically arranged to achieve the goal of the learning teaching. The RPP should be made in detail.

HOW TO FILL RPP FORMAT

A. School Identity: School name, Subject, Class/Semester, Standard of Competency, Basic Competency, Indicator and Time Alllocation. The RPP should be made for 1 Basic Competency. Standard of Competency, Basic Competency, and Indicator can be taken from the syllabus for SD.

B. Learning-Teaching Target State clearly the target of the lesson. What the students should master.
C. Material This covers the material or the topic and related media or audio cassette.

D. Learning-Teaching Methods State the methods

E. Steps or stages of teaching How you run the lesson from the beginning to the end. What you should do first and what you should do next (Intronduction, Body, Closure) F. Learning sources Books, media, teaching material, and so on G. Assessment: Technique, instrument form, assessment format

RPP Model
Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP)
SD Mata Pelajaran Kelas/Semester Pertemuan/Unit Materi Ajar Alokasi Waktu : _______________ : _______________ : _______________ : _______________ : _______________ : _______________

Standar Kompetensi (SK) dan Kompetensi Dasar (KD) : 1. Listening 2. Speaking 3. Reading 4. Writing Indikator : __________________ Tujuan Pembelajaran : __________________ Metode Pembelajaran: __________________ a. Tatap Muka b. Terstruktur c. Mandiri

Langkah-langkah Aktivitas Pembelajaran:

A. Pertemuan ke-1
1. Kegiatan Awal (5 Menit) 2. Kegiatan Inti (20 Menit) 3. Kegiatan Penutup (10 Menit)

B. Pertemuan ke-2
1. Kegiatan Awal (5 Menit) 2. Kegiatan Inti (20 Menit) 3. Kegiatan Penutup (10 Menit)

C. Pertemuan ke-3
1. Kegiatan Awal (5 Menit) 2. Kegiatan Inti (20 Menit) 3. Kegiatan Penutup (10 Menit)

Sumber/Bahan/Alat Pembelajaran : _______ Penilaian: 1. Aspek yang dinilai : _______ Listening/Speaking : _______ Reading : _______ Writing : _______

2. Teknik Penilaian : _________ 3. Contoh Penilaian : _________ 4. Contoh Format Penilaian:

No. Nama Fluency Accuracy Pron. Inton. Grmr

Mengetahui, Kepala SD (__________)

, Guru Bahasa Inggris (____________

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