JOURNAL

Date : 16 - 20 February 2014

School: SK Salor

ISSUE/PROBLEMS

This is the 4th week of my practicum session at SK Salor with me being

entrusted to handle 3 Yakin and 2 Bestari. It has been 20 days of being with the same

students in the same class, students already know their teacher and the teacher also

has already know the personality of his students. 20 days is not a short period of time, I

manage to know my students background and personalities, what’s their favorite things,

the things that they dislikes and so much more. Although many things have been

discovered and understand between teacher and students yet problems still arise.

Problems are like ants and sugars, whenever there is something planned there must be

problem accompanying it. This whole week the problem that appears is my students are

too noisy when I organize a game in class.

ANALYSIS

I have done a full week observation and giving advice and punishment to my

students but nothing happens, they seem to be too excited with the lesson and shows

sign of them competing with each other to be the best. However their way of showing

that they are the best is not so right because it might disturb students from other class

and other than that the lesson itself cannot go on because students are still noisy. I

have done punishment using force but still students insist on giving their cooperation

and behave nicely during the lesson.

SUGGESTIONS

Based on Marlene and Lee Canter’s assertive discipline idea and I find that their

idea is the perfect one to be used in my class. This is because their ideas are based on

rules and teachers must be assertive in handling the class and giving punishment. In

their idea, the main finding was that effective teachers were assertive in their

interactions with students, clearly expressed their expectations and were fully prepared

to back up their words with predictable actions. The model they subsequently developed

was based on the overall premise that the teacher has the right to teach in an orderly

classroom and to expect the students to obey (Baron, 1992). Similarly, students have

the right to learn in a calm, orderly classroom. (Charles, 2008) In the Assertive

Discipline classroom, the teacher is in full charge of the class and no student has the

right to either disrupt it in any way. It is assumed that students are capable of proper

behavior, and choose to break rules and misbehave. (Charles, 2008) The Assertive

Discipline model stresses positive reinforcement for good behavior and consequences

for misbehavior. The model is not meant to serve as a tool to punish misbehavior, but

rather as a tool to prevent to prevent it from occurring in the first place (Ellis & Karr-

Kidwell, 1995). Based on my research on this model, I realized that being strict with

students is important but there are ways and steps that must be followed by the teacher,

then only the strictness will show its effects.

CONCLUSION

Teachers should be the one to control and manage the class, to be fierce and

assertive to students it really advisable but the way teacher do it must follow the right

method so that it can be more effective and helpful.