Rabu, 02 Oktober 2013
Rabu, 24 April 2013
My view toward Teacher, Teaching and Education
“Teacher”, what comes to your mind when you hear the
word “Teacher”? Some people will say that teacher is someone who teaches some
students in a classroom. Some might say that teacher is someone that is so
smart so that s/he is teaching the others. Or some people say that teacher is a
hero without any service medal. Those statements are no wrong, but I have my
own definition about teacher. For me “teacher
is the front-liner of educational conflicts”, sounds ferocious, isn’t it? Why
I said that teacher is the front-liner of educational conflict? There are two
reasons that underlying my statement above. I said conflict because education
has conflict inside it, especially in Indonesia. The first conflict is in the
department and ministry of education itself. As you hear in every channel of
news, Indonesian education is now very chaotic, for example: The decreasing of
quality in National Examination, the late delivery of National Examination
question and answer sheet, curriculum that always changes, corruptions of BOS
money, until the idea of omitting English from elementary school. There are so
many chaos and conflicts and teacher is the front-liner of it. The second
conflict is more general, it is the conflict between the students and the
lesson they learn.
In
this post I will focus more on the second conflict which is the conflict
between the students and the lesson they learn. As I said
in my introduction, I view that teacher is the front-liner of educational
conflicts. So as the front liner, teacher should mediate the conflict between
students and the lesson they learn. Teaching is not merely about giving a stand
in front of the class, speak loudly, delivering the material on the book, and
punish everyone who messes up in the class. it is not what teacher should be, so
I come up with my second own philosophy which is “teaching is mediating the conflict between the students and the lesson
they learn”. What does it mean by that? In my opinion, there is a gap
between students and the lesson. And that's the teacher duty as the front-liner
of educational system to connect the gap between the students and the lesson. I know that
teaching is not as simple as I thought before. I used to think that teaching is
standing in front of the class, asking question, discussing some materials or
delivering the materials, but after I got the real experience in teaching real
students I realize that teaching is carrying the bigger responsibility to
mediate the gap between the students and the lesson. There are so many way in
mediating the students and the lesson. It can be by using game, using song,
video, AVAs to make our teaching more interesting. It needs teacher creativity
or else the students will not be connected to the lesson and the teacher will
fail to mediate them both. So what is your opinion? Is it hard to be a teacher?
Not only a teacher, but the front-liner of educational system. If I may say
being a teacher is difficult and carrying so many responsibilities to the
country and also to the students. So if someone out there said that “teacher is a hero without any service
medal”, that’s very true!
AKU vs BUKU
Menurutmu
apa itu buku? Saya sering dengar dari teman2 kalau buku itu adalah jendela
dunia. Ada juga yang mengatakan kalau buku adalah sumber inspirasi dan ilmu.
Semua itu benar, memang begitulah buku, saya tidak bisa mendebat lagi. Sialnya,
saya dari kecil jarang baca buku. Sekalinya punya buku, itu semua buku paket
pelajaran2 dan buku lks yang isinya gak menarik dan malah sering bikin pusing
dan mules bahkan mencret hahhahhaha. Buku2 yg ada di perpustakaan SD pun
buluk2 dan kadang sudah terlepas dari jilid-annya dan berserakan kemana2. Jadi
illfil dan tambah males deh pedekate sama buku. Mulai dari itulah sudut
pandangku terhadap buku mulai skeptical. Memang dari kecil orang tuaku juga
jarang beli buku, selain mungkin menurut mereka itu bukan kebutuhan primer dan jarang
banget ada toko buku di dekat rumahku, mungkin juga karena minat baca orang
tuaku dulu belum hebat, mereka masih terlalu sibuk bekerja sebagai pasangan
muda yg baru berumah tangga dan punya anak super imut kayak aku heheheh (pose chibi2).
Jadi ya begitulah, masa kecilku luput dari perhatian dan peran buku2 yg katanya
jendela dunia. Mulai masuk SMP aku mulai
dekat dengan buku, sialnya lagi buku yg deket sama aku waktu itu kurang
berkualitas. Cuma buku2 komik jepang yg aku pinjem dari persewaan buku deket
sekolah macam dragon ball, doraemon, kobo chan, sinchan dan bahkan sempat salah
pinjem komik goldenboy (ups, wakakakakka). Yah begitulah, fase hidupku ini
sudah berhasil mengenalkan aku sama buku yang kurang berkualitas dan satu buku ‘jorok’,
tapi it’s OK at least aku udah kenal dulu sama buku. Masuk SMA aku masih gak pernah beli buku
kecuali buku2 paket erlangga, yudhistira dan buku2 LKS yang kadang malah jadi
lahan bisnis sampingan para guru. aku dapat asupan nutrisi buku dari pinjeman sepupuku
yang mengkoleksi buku lupus (lagi2 buku ringan). Disaat anak2 normal seumuranku
mulai baca buku2 berkualitas karya penulis2 keren yang aku gak apal nama2
mereka karena kebanyakan kayak nama2 alien dari planet ‘saiya’. (dragonball
logic. Hihihihi. maklum, jarang baca buku berkualitas), aku masih baca lupus
dan seneng banget waktu itu karena ceritanya lucu dan banyak tokoh2 yg aneh
disitu, cocok bgt sama aku yg kebetulan punya muka yang aneh juga. Mulai dari
situ aku mulai suka baca lupus yang kupinjam 2 buku setiap minggu dari sepupu
ku itu (bahkan ada beberapa buku lupus yg lupa belum kukembaliin sampai
sekarang, hahahaha). Yah, pathetic memang hidupku di masa muda, masa kini juga
dink. Masa sekarang juga masih jarang beli buku, buat jajan aja susah! (makanku
banyak soalnya) tapi kalo sekarang banyak teman yg suka buku2 berkualitas, jadi
aku bisa pinjem deh. Pinjem sana pinjem sini dapat ilmu dan inspirasi. Kadang juga
dapat tamparan di pipi karena buku2 mereka sering jadi kusut karena aku bacanya
sambil tiduran di rak piring. (hahahaha, salah satu guyonan lupus yg masih
kuingat sampai sekarang). Bahkan karena kubaca sambil tidur, kadang buku2
mereka sering kena cairan bening kental yang berbau tajam, iler. (moga2 mereka
gak baca posting ini, kalaupun baca, sorry teman2 baru berani bilang sekarang
kalo buku kalian sering kena iler. Aku takut ditampar pipi lagi. Peace!(hahahah)
Aku suka buku? Iya! Aku seneng baca buku? Iya! Suka beli buku? I..iy…. enggak! Hahahaha..
Tapi entah kenapa, buku2 buat thesisku kok tidak semenarik buku2 yang kupinjem
dari teman ya? Mungkin aku memang suka membaca, but reading for pleasure. Reading
academically? Hmmmm?? Mungkin belum dapat panggilan hati. Intinya adalah, buku
itu sumber inspirasi dan kebijakan pola berfikir manusia. Jadi, selagi muda
adik adikku bacalah buku! Jangan tiru aku, karena itu hanya dikerjakan oleh
para professional yg terlatih!!!
Kamis, 18 April 2013
morning glory
darkness,
that's all what I see
consciousness,
that's what I seek to be
is it a delusion or I have woken up from my reverie
that's all what I see
consciousness,
that's what I seek to be
is it a delusion or I have woken up from my reverie
this fraction of verve been haunting elongatedly
suffering sore as pale as hell, drowned utterly in a vicious
agony
the sense of repeated misery come in me at your discretion
like a mystery
force me to walk my ass off my delicateness numerously to
the place I shouldn’t be
is it what is called divine decree?
I myself name it the excrement of liquidity
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