Climate Variables

In this week in MMSEL class I have learn about climate variables. During the teaching and learning process in classroom, teacher and students needs positive classroom climate. In MMSEL class with Miss Mima, I have read an article. In this article said that the positive classroom climate is a climate of the classroom where the students and also teacher can work together as learner and teacher can help the students to find the goal in teaching and learning process. Teacher can create the positive climate in classroom begin with observe the four climate variables such as order and safety, success, challenge and task comprehension.

During the MMSEL class I have discussed with my group about the climate variable and the video as the examples of the implementation the climate variables.  In first video show the climate class where the teacher teaches using lecture methods and the students as a good listener during the lesson. Actually I am ever things that the means of order and safety during a class session is the good atmosphere in actively, so the students can pleasant to learn. Because of that, in my opinion the first video is not order and safety because the some students not enjoy and bored I think. After I have discussed in class, I understand that order and safety in this topic means that the climate variables that support students with sense of physical and emotional security so the learners can feel the predictable learning environment. Safety and order is not only about enjoy in class but about how far the students feel safety and not afraid join the class session, and the teacher can given students classroom agreement.

In the next discussion in MMSEL class I have talked about how  teacher promote success in teaching and learning process. Like in the second video that showed the teacher guide their students to understand the material by develop the lesson with questioning and prompting students when they have difficulty answering.  Other method to make students success in learning process is using open-ended questions, using variety of high quality examples, provide scaffolding practice and make assessment an integral part of the teaching learning process.  Dolezal et all in article said that the success achieved by the students will not increase the self efficacy and competence if they have  to face the challenging in every task that teacher given. So, the teacher can provide the challenging task for students to make students confident and increase their competence.

The last variables is task comprehension that is variables will be motivation for students to learn. In task comprehension guide students awareness of what they are supposed to be learning and an understanding of why the task is important to doing. In first video I did not found that teacher provide task comprehension to students. Because the teacher just asked students to doing the activity or lesson that students should be understand and students did not known the meaning of this activity. Like the activity that asked students to make resume of the teacher explain first. The students just doing the activity without know why we should be learn this topic today lesson.

Actually, talk about climate variables make me reflect about teaching and learning process that i have did in SEP program. Sometimes my students asked me why we should be learn about trigonometry, as we know that in daily life it topic is not useful. Because of that, I should explain to and make the students understand if the topic have many benefit in some of the activity in daily life in example if become the architecture. After I told the students about that, they will be more enjoy to learn in my class. That is my reflection in this week.Thank you

 By: Luh Putu Ariasih

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