The Use Of Ice Breakers By Pre-Service Teachers During Peer-Teaching Practicum In Private University

Abstract

One of the important things which support the learners in learning is ice breakers. This is a fun activity and less serious activity. So this activity is important to apply to the students before beginning the material. The aim of this research is to identify the types of ice breakers that used by pre-service teachers during their peer-teaching practicum in a private university. The purpose of this study is to identify and have more information about the use of ice breakers by pre-service teacher during teaching practicum in Islamic University of Indonesia, especially in English Education Department classes. The data were collected by observing video recording from 3 pre-service teachers during their peer-teaching practicum and each pre-service teacher has 3 peer-teaching cycles. The first cycle is focused on teaching without technology, while the second cycle is focused on teaching with technology, then the third cycle is focused on classroom management. The type of this research is observational study. This study found that pre-service teachers in Islamic university of Indonesia applied 7 aspects of ice breakers during their peer-teaching practicum, namely opening communication, fostering the interaction among learners, energizing, discussion questions, games, humor, and simple. Then, the researcher found that opening communication was the most dominant in their peer-teaching practicum. All pre-service teachers applied it as their ice breakers.