How Do I Plan My Lessons?

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SMAN 2 Semarang uses a teaching plan called Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP). It is a detailed lesson plan consisting of more than 10 elements. The first 8 elements are rudimentary. The teacher needs to write down the class details, the topic, the core/basic competencies and learning indicators only. Indication of the details for the competencies and indicators can be found from their syllabi (syllabus). Teachers just need to select and transfer the appropriate information from the syllabi to their RPP which must be suited to the learner's needs. In addition, lesson plans across all subjects must be written in Bahasa Indonesia.

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On the 9th to 13th element, teachers need to write down their lesson objectives based on the four aspects of Kurikulum 2013. Then, they also need to inculcate the learning theory, method, media/teaching tools and sources of their teaching materials. The 14th element serves as the learning steps or how teachers will deliver their lessons in the class. Simply, the learning steps follow an ascending order of complexity. They start with simple preliminary activities such as greetings, checking of attendance and the like. Then, they proceed to the core activities whereas the teaching-learning process comes in. The closing activities indicate summarizing the lesson and providing homework to students if necessary. Lastly, the 15th element is the assessment procedure. It includes instructions, rubrics, criteria and etc.

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Quite frankly, the teaching plan is difficult to make. To top it off, writing it in Bahasa Indonesia makes it even harder. Due to the extreme shortness of time in mastering and learning how to write an RPP, our cooperative English teacher in SMAN 2 Semarang, Mr. Mat Ibnu, is gracious enough to allow us in utilizing the format of the lesson plan that we use in the Philippines instead. Anyway, the lesson plan in Indonesia and the Philippines are almost the same. The only difference is that we don't have to include the different educational theories, teaching methods, strategies and learning models. However, I needed to show to our mentor so we can compare our lesson plans. Modifications were done in order to fit the needs of the learners and to integrate the curriculum's basic competencies.