Students’ Attitudes toward ‘Teaching Journal’ in Teaching Practicum
Rakhmani Puspa Sari
ABSTRACT
‘Teaching Journal’ is used with the hope that later students can reflect on their teaching for their own teaching skill development to be better in teaching, show that they are growth professionally as a teacher, and aware of their learning process. However, the previous studies showed that some students see ‘Teaching Journal’ is beneficial for them, while others say it is ineffective. Hence, this study was conducted to find what students’ attitudes toward ‘Teaching Journal’ in Teaching Practicum are. In conducting this study, questionnaire and interview were used. There were 82 participants in filling the questionnaire and 10 of them were interviewed. They are students of ELEP, FLL, SWCU who enrolled in Teaching Practicum course in the first semester of 2014-2015. The findings show that students do not like writing ‘Teaching Journal’ with some reasons. Even though students only write ‘Teaching Journal’ to fulfill the requirement in teaching practicum, students do not have intention to only make summary and impress their mentor teaching through ‘Teaching Journal’. Interestingly, they have different opinions about ‘Teaching Journal’ which tend to be positive for them. They also stated that they are willing to use ‘Teaching Journal’ as a part of their learning in teaching.
