Strategies to handle a large class in teaching english for the fifth grade students of Sd Kristen Manahan Surakarta Final Project Report

Oleh :
Yessy Monica Sari - C9308125 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

This project report is written based on the writer’s job training as an English teacher in SD Kristen Manahan Surakarta which was done for two months. The objectives of this report are to explain the problems in handling a large class for the fifth grade students of SD Kristen Manahan and to describe the strategies to handle those problems. During the job training, the writer did an observation to gain information of the school. The writer also did a discussion with the English teacher to know the teaching and learning process in the class. This final report project finds that there are some problems in handling a large class during the teaching and learning process for the fifth grade students of SD Kristen Manahan Surakarta. Those problems are uncontrolled condition; the students find it difficult to understand the material, individual attention, lack of confident and inefficient learning. Having a large class during the teaching learning process, the writer also presents the strategies to handle a large class related to those problems such as controlling the class by giving some rules and stopping the class, making pairwork, establishing a good relationship with the students, making groupwork and paying attention to the transition.