Tuesday, April 29, 2014

PORTFOLIO by NURUL HIDAYANI

Portfolio is a teaching method where is the students must gather and collect their works to a document called portfolio. Portfolio comes from two word “port” means report and “folio” means complete. So we can conclude that portfolio is a complete report of students’ work. But in education world, portfolio can be also used by teacher by making lesson plan. Not only in educational world, portfolio is also can be used in others words such as art, sport, religion and it actually can be applied not only for someone’s work but also for company, organization, institution and group.

There are two kinds of portfolio namely process oriented portfolio and product oriented portfolio. In oriented portfolio, teachers notice their students development form the beginning, the middle until the last or we can conclude that teacher notice the whole developments of their students. Yet, in product oriented portfolio, teacher is only notice the final result of students. There are two kinds of product oriented portfolio. First, Documentary portfolio to all portfolio paper and then Show/Performance portfolio to all portfolio which the form is presentation/performance. It can be collected by making video.

There are four process in gathering portfolio: collection (students collect data), selection (students select kinds of data), reflection (teacher tests students understanding about the data in portfolio) and the last connection (teacher and students know the students’ ability and lack from reflection).

There are three aspects in portfolio: cognitive, aspect where the students are expect to memorize, understand, analyze, combine, apply and make a conclusion from some informations in their portfolio. Second aspect, affective, more emphasize feeling, interest and motivation.While the last aspect, psichomotor, more emphasize the practice of the lesson such as art, religion, sport, science and language.

There are four things that must be included to a portfolio: title and table of contents, heading and subheading, portfolio body and brief explanatory.

There are three ways that teacher can do to assess portfolio’s students. First, teacher must clearly gives instruction about the content and kinds of portfolio so that students can easily gather and collect the data as the instruction. Second, teacher must develop assessment procedure in order to it is suitable with portfolio’s instruction. Third, teacher must make schedule to hold portfolio conference at the end of the study to discuss about the portfolio.

There are some advantages from the use of this method namely the learning process is emphasized to whole process, from the beginning, middle and the last so that teacher can notice her/his students’ need and development. Besides that, it can increase students’ motivation because of their satisfaction in collecting the portfolio and they surely do not want to be defeated by another students. However, besides advantages, this method is not free of lacks. It is because it takes time for teacher in assessing the portfolio result if the data are vast. Furthermore, sometimes it is hard for teacher to make portfolio conference.

Collaborative Learning by Dian Maya Nurita

From the presenter’s explanation I can conclude that the definition of Collaborative Learning as a teaching method where the students are divided to some groups to solve a problem.  

Collaborative Learning has many advantages, students can improve their ability to socialization because it encourages students to work together, share assignments, and hold debate and give feedback. However, it has also many diadvantages . First, this method needs long time to apply because all students are encouraged to participate. Second, there is possibility there will be problem starts from disagreement that happens when the discussion is holding and third, the class becomes hard to control.

In Collaborative Learning, teacher’s role as fasilitator, mediator, and to transfer (source) knowledge. Meanwhile students’ role to give critic to solve problem.

There are four strategies in applying this method: Simple Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share, Three steps Interview and Numbered Head Together. Presenter explains one by one the strategy.

This method easily to understand and explain because this method is familiar. But, the presenter did not benefit this opportunity to make this presentation more interesting. There must be a simulation to make audience more understand.

Silent Way (Demonstrate) by Syahrial

As its name, method which develops by Cattegno that uses silence to study target language.   One instrument that is used in this method is called “rod”. A teacher says this rod s a thing in target language and students follow it. For the example, teacher say one rod as “hen”, the students must consider it as “hen”, then teacher calls another rod as “rooster” then students also calls it as “rooster”.

Although this method is very simple, but this method has many advantages namely can improving creativity, finding new things, improving intelligence and can saving the in long term memory. However, this method also has disadvantages because the limitations of the material that can be used by applying this method. The communication between students and teacher is limited.

The presenter was good in explaining this method and he also gave the simulation as well.