PETA Reflection - week 1

         What comes in your mind if you read “PETA”? A map? A chart? A picture? Or something like that. When I was in the first semester, then I read my senior course about PETA, I also thought that PETA course will teach us about map because my major is mathematics. However, when I asked about PETA to my senior, he said that PETA is different with my thought. It teaches us about preparing the student to be a great teacher by the principles of effective teaching and assessment. Waaa, a bit shocked at that time, but after and after I became interested in PETA because of my senior’s experience. I saw they were very excited and enjoyed the course.
       One of the reasons is about the lecturer, the lecturer who taught PETA was a favorite one, so I excited about PETA. Until now, I’m in the third semester. It means I will have PETA course. I still excited to learn, and then I am very thankful that my lecturer is Bu Mima. From the first semester, I knew her because she was being my “guide lecturer” when School Experience. I saw she was one of a great lecturer. After that my seniors said that she is really a great teacher. How lucky I am for having Bu Mima as my lecturer.
           It has been proved in the first PETA class. She was very nice in teaching us about “Effective Teacher”. We had a group discussion, then gallery walk, then we discussed in class. Most of us agreed that an effective teacher is a teacher who well-prepared for his/her teaching. It’s something like lesson plan, understanding his/her students, creative of using variety teaching method, objective (clear assessment methods), good personality, and reflective practitioner. After reading the issue that has been posted by the first group about a humorous teacher, I think it’s also a requirement for an effective teacher because most of them quite success to engaged students’ attention.
        I have an experience with a humorous teacher. She was my math teacher in 12^th grade. In the first time we saw her, she looked so fierce, even she wore a scarf. After she started the class, my imagination was changing because of her intonation. It made a whole class laugh together, so funny. Day by day she often shared her activity. It always makes us laugh, even she seldom made a joke. So, the point that I wanna emphasize is “humorous is not only joking”, but humorous is one of the requirement for an effective teaching. I don’t include humorous in to “good personality” because someone who has a good personality doesn’t mean that he/she should be a humorous person, so I exclude id.
           In brief, I really excited to learn PETA. I’m sure that I will learn a lot about how to be a teacher with so many effective teaching methods and also how to make a very good assessment to my students. LET’S ROCK PETA CLASS!!!!! :D