3.1 CURRICULUM

          The school curriculum is based on the 2013 Curriculum (recent curriculum) being implemented by all secondary schools in Indonesia. They mainly focused on character education as a whole. In terms of science education, the aim of the curriculum is to develop the needed competencies for Indonesian learners to become scientists in the future who can contribute to the scientific research and development.

        Science education curriculum is anchored to the K to 12 Curriculum being adopted by Indonesia for several years, which is the same with the K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum in the Philippines. Spiral progression is highly evident in the science education curriculum where topics/subject matter becomes more complex as the Grade level adds. The integration of necessary technologies and innovation are being encouraged also by the science education curriculum, allowing learners to put into practice what they have learned. Assessment and evaluation are enriched with performance-based and activity-based tasks with touch of inquiry-based approach. Higher-order thinking skills are expected to perform by the Indonesian learners with the said curriculum.

 

3.2 TEACHING PLAN RELATED TO YOUR MAJOR

      Weeks before my real teaching theatre act, I prepared my lesson plan by knowing first my learners and understanding them, formulating the learning objectives, determining the learning competency and content standards, identifying the instructional materials and tools I needed to use, determining my teaching methods, strategy, and styles for the lesson, constructing activities seat works necessary for cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning, and designing an assessment  tool that will assess the students’ extent of learning. The assessment is, of course, aligned to the learning objectives I have formulated.

            At first, I introduced myself to the students as a initiative to the ‘Getting-To-Know-Each-Other Stage’. I was confident to know them very well and established good relationships with some touch strict authority. I believed that my classroom rules will be an effective mechanism in order to inculcate discipline and good character to my learners. In the preparation phase, I used and tested several teaching strategies to determine which one is more applicable and appropriate for classroom instruction. I utilized 7Es which is an abbreviation of Elicit, Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate, and Extend. This is anchored to the K to 12 Learning and 21st Century Classroom Strategy.

            Crafting a lesson plan is really hard since it requires to be detailed (in our case). Answer expectations from the students must be stipulated and directions must be clear in order to facilitate correct learning. I asked my cooperating teacher if what style should I utilize and she told me that the two styles are of similar in nature (Indonesian Teacher Lesson Plan and Filipino Teacher Lesson Plan). She said that I can use what I am convenient with. Therefore, I chose my own style of instruction.

            Afterwards, I prepared my instructional materials, while playing my favourite music, like the LCD Projector, laboratory equipment such as heating plates, beakers, Erlenmeyer Flasks, candles, balloon, lighter, ping-pong ball, etc.. I also prepared various worksheets for each group wherein they will perform an experiment governs by ‘Charles’s Law’.

            In order to visualize the lesson that I will execute for my Final Demonstration Teaching, here is my actual teaching plan in physics about ‘Charles’s Law’: