The alignment of pre-service Teachers’ activities with teaching objectives based on Bloom Taxonomy in an internship program

This research discusses about the alignment of Pre-service teachers’ learning activities with teaching objectives based on Bloom Taxonomy in an Internship program academic year 2018/2019. The aims of this research are to figure out; 1) The alignment of Pre-service teachers’ learning activities with teaching objectives based on Bloom taxonomy, and 2) The Pre-service teachers’ beliefs in aligning learning activities with teaching objectives based on Bloom Taxonomy. This research uses qualitative descriptive which focus on content-analysis. In getting the data, the researcher collected six lesson plans which contain teaching objectives and learning activities from 6 Pre-service teachers who were doing teaching internship in some state schools in Sidoarjo. In addition, the researcher also did interview to get the information about Pre-service teachers’ beliefs which mostly affect their way to align learning activities with teaching objectives. The results highlighted the following; 1) Most of the Pre-service teachers’ learning activities align with teaching objectives based on Bloom Taxonomy. They arranged the activities in order based on the objectives they stated. 2) Teachers’ beliefs which affect Pre-service teachers in aligning good learning activities in order to achieve the teaching objectives are teachers’ experience as language learners and experience from teaching. Those indicate that Pre-service teachers’ experiences either formal or informal education encourage them to arrange good learning activities in achieving teaching objectives.