An Analysis of Students' Problems in Designing Lesson Plans During Microteaching class

To carry out a succesful teaching in the microteaching class, students needs to develop a good lesson plan. The lesson plan functions as a guideline in the teaching in order to achieve the learning objectives and the successful teaching. As a matter of fact, some students still faced various difficulties in designing lesson plan during microteaching class. Therefore, the researcher carried out a study to analyze students’ problems in designing lesson plans during microteaching class and find out the students’ perspectives on the lesson plans of microteaching class. This study employed a qualitative research design. The population was the English Department students batch 2015, in academic year 2017/2018 in UIN Ar-Raniry who have already taken the microteaching class in the seventh semester. They were selected by purposive sampling. The data were collected through document analysis and interview. The researcher analyzed 20 students’ lesson plans and interviewed 20 students. The findings revealed that the students’ perspective on the lesson plan of microteaching class was as a teaching guideline, teaching planning, and crucial aspect of teaching and the students’ problems in designing lesson plan were in terms of formulating indicator/objectives, analyzing basic competence (KD) to the indicator, and selecting the evaluation/assessment.
Key Words: Lesson plans, microteaching