Praktik Pengalaman Lapangan and Pedagogical Skill: Students teachers' Self Reflection

This research is entitled “Praktik Pengalaman Lapangan and Pedagogical Skill: Student Teachers’ Self Reflection”. This study employed the qualitative research design. This research was aimed at finding the influences of PPL program on student teachers’ pedagogical skill, and the lesson learned of PPL program. In collecting the required data, semi-structured interview was used. The population was the English Department students of UIN Ar-Raniry year of 2014. The participants were six students who have taken PPL program and taught English at school or any non-formal programs. They were selected by purposive sampling. The findings unveil that the PPL program has influenced on student teachers’ pedagogical skill positively. Several aspects of pedagogical skill that were influenced by the program are knowledge understanding, student characteristics understanding, classroom management, and students’ ability improvement. Here are three lesson learned of PPL that were found out by the researcher; classroom management, lesson plan and teaching style.