Teaching english to SMP students

How does teacher teach students?

Before carrying out the material to your students, you should be ready with your plan. They are; what are the materials like, how to attract them and whom are the material for.
Well, beloved teachers don’t worry about it. Here are the steps to bring your teaching plan successfully. Are you with me?

Step one
Teacher must really familiar with curriculum of English in that level, for example for the junior high school students, there are three important things. They are as follows:
1. transactional and interpersonal
2. functional text
3. genre
Transactional and interpersonal means, at the beginning of teaching English for grade one, two or three. Teacher tends to introduce foreign culture, such as the way of greeting, self introduction, and all subjects related to daily life. In this situation critical thinking or grammar rules is omitted. The purpose the teaching plan is to encourage students learn English. Never force to them.
Step two

Teacher must be able to select and choose the materials that are given to them. In the case, teacher always starts the lesson from the easiest to the hardest. How can teacher know ? easy lesson for junior students level start with limited sentences to each text. For example the type of functional text. To congratulate someone birthday : the card given is simply, “ Happy Birthday” from Ann.

Step three

This is the last step of the teacher effort, teacher comes to the lesson with more complicated way. They must have special skill here. Special skill is needed in order to invite our learners into attractive lesson or create students crazy with the subject. Professional teacher must be able to carry out each types of genre practically and acceptable. Is this enough strategy? Of course not, teacher must be able to affect students attention through the topic discussion. In short, teacher can use appropriate media to support their teaching learning process