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ABSTRACT

Tugas akhir ini membahas permasalahan yang saya temui selama melaksanakan magang di Little Children Class, yaitu saya sebagai

seorang guru baru, merasa kesulitan saat memberikan instruksi-instruksi pembelajaran pada anak-anak TK A ketika berada di ruangan kelas. Hal tersebut disebabkan oleh tiga hal, yaitu : saya adalah pengajar baru yang belum berpengalaman, saya memiliki suara yang kecil saat memberikan instruksi pada anak-anak, dan saya kurang tegas saat

memberikan instruksi. Ketidakmampuan saya dalam memberikan instuksi secara efektif membuat suasana di kelas menjadi gaduh, anak-anak tidak mematuhi apa yang guru instruksikan, anak-anak tidak melakukan

pekerjaannya dengan baik, anak-anak sering ngobrol dengan teman-temannya selama pelajaran berlangsung, dan anak-anak kurang menghormati saya sebagai gurunya.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT……… i

DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY……… ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………... iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS……….. iv

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION……….. 1-5

A. Background of the Study B. Identification of the Problem

C. Objectives and Benefits of the Study D. Description of the Institution

E. Method of the Study F. Limitation of the Study

G. Organization of the Term Paper

CHAPTER II. PROBLEM ANALYSIS………. 6-10

CHAPTER III. POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS……… 11-16

CHAPTER IV. CONCLUSION……….17-18

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDICES:

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- The new teacher who has followed the training will be needed more by the school, so the senior teacher will feel jealous and not feel so useful anymore.

- The school has to pay the cost for training of teachers.

Potential Positive Effects:

- It is easier for the teacher to control

the children’s behaviour.

- The children will give more attention to the lesson.

Potential Positive Effects:

- The children will be more active in class activities.

- The children will not feel bored in class.

- The teacher is easier in giving instructions to children in class. Potential Negative Effects:

- Some of the children will feel it is unfair if the teacher only gets closer with some of the other children. - The children do not have any respect to their teacher because of having too close relationship the children will. to give instructions to the children in the classroom.

- The teacher will give valuable way to other teachers about how to teach children in an effective way

- The teacher can communicate to give instructions with greater confidence. Potential

I have to develop good communication skills with the children. Problem:

- Children will be nervous or embarrassed.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

In this chapter, I would like to explain the reason for choosing my topic

and the definition of the topic. During my internship program in the

kindergarten at Little Children Class, I found a problem that as a new

teacher there, I was not able to make the children follow the instructions in

the classroom. Harmer states that “This issue of how to talk to students

becomes crucial when teachers are giving their students instructions. The

best activity in the world is a waste of time if the students do not

understand what it is they are supposed to do.” (4) Giving effective

instructions to children in class helps to get their attention to make them

follow the teacher’s instructions when they do their activities.

Being a teacher is not easy. It needs particular skills to manage the

classroom, including the way of giving instructions effectively to make the

children are able to follow the instructions well. If the children find it hard to

do their tasks well, the teacher may need to recheck whether his or her

instructions were complete enough or were too complicated to be

understood by the children. New teachers do not always come from a

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have the skills that are needed to manage the classroom well. That is why

many new teachers find it difficult to have good classroom management,

including giving effective instructions to children.

From January 20 until February 20, 2008, I did my internship program

as a teacher assistant at Little Children Class. Little Children Class,

henceforth (LCC), is an institution which is a kindergarten that gives

valuable lessons to the children, and it also gives English lessons twice a

week to make the children have a good quality of simple English language

to enter their next level of study.

I faced a problem when I did my internship program in the TK A Class

at LCC. It was hard to make the children finish their work well in class

because I had not understood yet how to give clear instructions to

children.

There are some factors that make the teacher not able to make the

children follow the instructions in class, such as the teacher is new, the

teacher has a soft voice, and the teacher is lenient to the children. Based

on my experience when I was doing my internship at LCC, I as a new

teacher found that there were some children who could not obey my

instruction because I was new and had no experience as a kindergarten

teacher. When I was telling a child what to do, the child usually did not

respond or do what I said, but if the senior teacher asked him to do

something, he did it. Based on this fact, I choose the difficulty of the

children to act according to the instructions given by me, as a new teacher

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B. Identification of the Problem

This term paper aims at providing answers to the following questions:

1. Why is it difficult for me to give effective instructions as a teacher in

the TK A class at LCC?

2. How do my ineffective instructions affect the children in TK A at

LCC?

3. How can I give effective instructions to the kindergarten children at

LCC?

C. Objectives and Benefits of the Study

The objectives of writing this term paper are to analyze the causes and

effects of not being able to give effective instructions, to find potential

solutions fom my ineffective instructions, and to choose the best potential

solution to give effective instructions in the TK A class at LCC.

Furthermore, there are also some benefits of the study for the

institution, the readers, and myself. It is expected that this term paper can

give some positive information for the institution and the teachers at LCC

through the potential solutions provided to help teachers give effective

instructions to the children in class, even if they are not new teachers.

The benefits for the readers who love children and want to be teachers

are, they will get information about how to deal effectively with children in

the classroom. More specifically, they will find some ways to give effective

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For me, the benefit is I know more about how to make children follow

my instructions. In addition, I hope it will help me to teach the children well

if I work as a teacher in the future.

D. Description of the Institution

Little Children Class is a school for children aged 2 – 7. When LCC

began, Miss Tini Budiman supported the cost of renting a building for the

school, and she also asked Miss Lusiana to become the principal in the

LCC. LCC started on 17 July 2002 at Jl. Taman Holis Indah E1-8. At the

beginning, Little Children Class opened the school programmes of

Pre-school, Playgroup, and Kindergarten.

Teachers at Little Children Class try to speak English in the English

classes that are held twice a week. English language is an important

lesson in the kindergarten level of LCC, which is the aim of preparing

children for the following levels of English in the school. The LCC has

opened a programme of home-schooling and also an elementary school

from levels 1 to 3.

E. Method of the Study

I compiled the data for this term paper from my internship journal when

I did my internship programme in the TK A class at LCC. I wrote the entire

teaching and learning activities in class every day, when I was doing my

internship there. Besides, the theories for supporting my analysis of the

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journal contains of the information which helps me in writing this term

paper.

F. Limitation of the Study

I will focus the analysis on me, a new teacher who finds it difficult to

make the children follow my instructions in the TK A class at Little Children

Class. The analysis is of the TK A class at LCC, which consists of twenty

children aged four years until six. The analysis was carried out from

January 2008 to February 2008.

G. Organization of the Term Paper

The term paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter One is the

Introduction, which has seven parts, namely, Background of the Study,

Identification of the Study, Objectives and Benefits of the Study,

Description of the Institution, Method of the Study, Limitation of the Study,

and Organization of the Term Paper. Chapter Two contains the analysis of

the problem, being specifically the causes and effects of the problem and

some theories that will support my data. In Chapter Three, I discuss some

possible solutions, as well as the negative and positive effects from the

potential solutions. In Chapter Four, I choose the best potential solution for

my problem. Finally, this term paper finishes with the Bibliography and the

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CHAPTER IV

CONCLUSION

In this chapter, I would like to state the best solution for not being able

to give instructions effectively to the children in TK A class at LCC, which

is the problem I have analyzed in the previous chapters. I have analyzed

the three causes that made me, as the teacher, not have the ability to give

instructions effectively to the children. The first cause is I am a new

teacher without experience. The second cause is I have a soft voice when

speaking in class. The third cause is I am too lenient to the students. I

have also analyzed four effects from the problem. The first effect is the

children are noisy and they yell. The second effect is the children do not

obey the teacher. The third effect is the children do not do their work well.

The fourth effect is the children do not respect me as their teacher. As the

result of my analysis, I choose one solution as the best solutions for the

problem.

Before I talk further about the best solution, I will state three potential

solutions of the problem. The first potential solution of the problem is the

teacher has to develop good communication with the children in the

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when giving the instructions. The third potential solution is the teacher

should follow training programs related to how to be a good teacher.

Now I would like to discuss the best solutions for the problem. I choose

the first as the best solution because I really believe that this solution can

help the teacher be able to give better instructions to the children in the

classroom when learning process. The solution is the teacher has to

develop good communication with children. Being a teacher is a tricky job,

as there as many different aspects to remember in our performance as

teacher. We have to communicate with both classes and individuals, and

build bonds between us and our children. We also have to know how to

plan and teach our lessons, to make children can learn well, and hopefully

have fun at the same time. The teacher needs to build and develop good

communication skills by giving example before giving instruction with

children to make sure what the teacher says is concise and easy to follow,

and therefore the children want to listen well to us. Also, when teacher

gives an instruction, keep it short and clear. When teacher offer an

explanation, teacher can make it longer but teacher still need keep it clear.

It is helpful to use many non-verbal communication such as using gesture,

body language, facial expression and eye contact to keep our children

focused on what we are saying. Besides this, the children will not be bored

and will be more active in doing their learning activities. Hopefully, my

research can help other teachers who are still new in teaching, especially

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Printed Source

Harmer, Jeremy. How to Teach English. Edinburgh Gate: Pearson Education

Limited, 1988.

Electronic Sources

Abisamra, Nada. “Lesson Plan Direct-Instruction Model.” Instructional

Procedures Educational. January 1998. 13 August 2010

<http://members.fortunecity.com/nadabs/directlesson.html.>

Allen, Faith. “How to help kids with their homework.” How contributing writer:

2009. 26 November 2009

<http://www.ehow.com/how 2282745 help-kids-their-homework.html>.

Kelly, Melissa. “Top 10 Tips for Classroom Discipline and Management.”

Baulkham Hills, NSW, Australia: May 2003. 15 October 2009

<http://712educators.about.com/bio/Melissa-Kelly-7615.htm>.

Lambeth, Deborah. “Classroom Management Techniques.” Buzzle Staff and

Agencies: 6 April 2007. 10 October 2009

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Mathews, Jay. “New Teachers Rarely Learn Classroom Management.”

Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday: December 19, 2000; Page A19. 10

October 2009

<http://www.helium.com/items/887232/new-teachers-rarely-learn-classromm-management.htm>.

Nik-nik. “How to steps to become a kindergarten teacher.” 2008. ehow inc.

22 August 2008

<http://www.ehow.com/how_5054087_steps-become-kindergarten-teacher.html#ixzz0umdvz4Be>.

Whisp. “instructions.” Forum 16 Aug 2004. 15 June 2010

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