Accelerate Progress Indonesia to Promote Education

Accelerate Progress Indonesia to Promote Education

Indonesia Education still lags behind other countries. College graduates in Indonesia is still below the 10% level. "We are speeding up the progress of Indonesia, to be able to finance public education. Graduates of our universities under 10%," said CEO of MNC Group Hary Tanoesoedibjo when met after giving a public lecture at the State University of Surabaya, East Java, on Thursday (20/10).

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For comparison, further Hary Tanoe, South Korea independent Indonesia within two days of 85% of the people to pass at least one level. A country can thrive when good community education. Utaman problem is the high cost of education. The way out of this problem is the provision of subsidies or financing education students to study abroad. This can be achieved if Indonesia has a sufficient budget. "One way to prosper NKRI is to foster entrepreneurs around the country," said Hary Tanoe. Therefore, the government should provide opportunities through a variety of efforts to encourage the growth of productive entrepreneurs in the regions. Thus the economic pillar of Indonesia will be more than the current limited only in big cities. Indonesia so that faster progress. On this occasion Hary Tanoe provide educational grants to students who excel Surabaya State University. He advised the students to build on the success and build their respective regions. "Success does not depend on time, but the way we work. It must be militant, hard work, innovative," due diligence.

1000 Master's and KFC Push Education Quality in Rural NTT

1000 Master's and KFC Push Education Quality in Rural NTT

CONDITIONS education of some residents of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) are still a concern to encourage volunteers to undertake social action. A program called Smart Center Project was held in order to help improve the quality of education the interior of the province.

Communities are 1,000 teachers working with PT Past Food Indonesia Tbk who hold such activities.

Teachers are 1,000 community volunteers in the education community who initiated and implemented programs to improve the quality of education in rural areas. While PT Past Food Indonesia Tbk is a holder of the brand Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Indonesia.

In the program, a community of 1,000 Master's and KFC hold a pilot project, one of whom taught in two primary schools in two primary schools in the interior NTT, Friday (21/10) to Sunday (23/10).

Founder of the Community of 1,000 Master Jemi Ngadiono that lead directly the activity said teaching activities held at two elementary schools, SDN Koffie in the village of the District Koffie Koffie and SDN GMIT Bottie in Boti village, Kie Subdistrict, Regency of South Central Timor, NTT.

Koffie can be reached by car less than an hour from the east NTT provincial capital, Kupang. While Boti is about 2 hours from the southeast city of Kupang.

The area in the village of Boti apart by car, should also be achieved by using a motorcycle crossing the trail in the interior of South Central Timor, NTT.

NTT teaching activities in the interior, according to Jemi, carried out by 12 volunteers 1,000 teachers who mostly come from Jakarta and others from Kupang.

The 12 volunteers come from educational backgrounds and professions vary.

"There is a daily profession is a teacher, but most of the educational and professional background assortment," said Jemi in Kupang, Friday (21/10).

As students in the program are approximately 250 students at two elementary schools, among others selected on consideration of the remoteness and the level of amenities and facilities and inadequate educational infrastructure.

Teaching and learning activities

Teaching and learning activities

Opening Activities

The opening activities function is to make the students prepare mentally and physically to follow the teaching activities process. It is supported by Usman (2004) who states that opening activities lead the learners to the precondition which indicates the learners are ready to focus their attention to what they are going to learn. In this section, the teachers can fill the activities such as checking students’ attendance list, leading them to the materials which are going to be learned, motivating the students by showing such media of learning, stating the objectives of learning, telling them the activities which are going to do, etc.

Main Activities

The objective of main activities is to achieve basic competences. These activities should be meaningful, interactive, and challenging. In constructing main activities, it depends on indicators. The indicators have been formulated leads the teachers to organize the activities. The activities show the steps of what the students do from the lower level to upper level of difficulties.The well-organized activities guide the students to achieve the basic competence as it is shown on each indicator that is developed in the main learning activities.

Closing Activities

Closing activities is the activity done by the teachers to end the whole learning activities. It is intended to give the students a picture of understanding to what they have been learned, and to identify learners achievement during teaching and learning process (Usman, 2004). In this part of activities, the teacher can fill the activities, such as making conclusion from what they have been learned, giving them follow up, giving them evaluation, and etc.

In addition, there are some criteria which are needed to be considered in setting the teaching and learning activities (Sujinah, 2011);

a)The objective of learning activities is to help teachers teach well and conduct teaching and learning process professionally which is suitable to the curriculum.

b)Teaching and learning activities are developed based on basic competence.

c)Teaching and learning activities include the systematical, chronological, or well-organized activities done by the students to achieve basic competence

d)In designing teaching and learning activities, the materials should be clear to achieve the basic competence

e)Determining the order of activities is very essential which based on the level of difficulties of each indicator to achieve basic competence.

Merril’s Six Categories

Merril’s Six Categories

Categories	Meaning
Fact	Statement which relates to two cases, such as name, symbol, label, place, definition, description of certain thing.
Concept	The category which is used to classify ideas, events, or similar things, such as jewelry is the concept which classifies earring, rings, bracelet, etc.
Principle	Statement which relates to two concepts, such as the rising of demand, the rising of price, or the poverty increases the criminals.
Procedure	Chronological or well-organized steps to do certain action, such as changing the wheel or starting the engine.
Interpersonal Skill	Verbal or non-verbal skill, such as leading group, solving the chaos.
Attitude	A tendency to respond a certain event or during doing the action. Attitude is part of learning activities, such as during the practice in garage; the learners wear safety shoes.

TEACHING IS NOT EASY BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING JOB

TEACHING IS NOT EASY BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING JOB

As we all know, teaching is not easy but it is very interesting job. It may seem easy to study at a University and prepare yourself to be a teacher, but when it is the time to practice it may not look as easy as it was expected. There are some important things you should keep as a good teacher.

Well, the most thing you should have to be a successful teacher is to know your students and their needs well. Your classes have many students with different backgrounds, education knowledge, learning strategies, needs, and may be culture. It is very important to know your students before starting teach. If you teach grammar and structure, for example, ask your students to write a short paragraph about themselves. You can collect their work and check it later. Their work will tell you their background and knowledge of grammar rules and sentence structure. So, getting an idea about the entire needs of your students is the most important factor in being a professional teacher.

Professional teachers enjoy their job and vary their roles in the class. You may want to be the person who provides the students information. But besides being information deliverer, you can be a close friend of them, a parent, and a promoter. You can enjoy and vary your role in the class in a way that interests both, your students and you. You never can better when you enjoy your job. Creating a relaxed environment helps you successfully cover a great amount of the content. Besides, you will realize better participation of your students with time and therefore learning will happen.

One thing more, students have different learning strategies, so successful and professional teachers vary their teaching techniques. Using the same method every time does not help reaching the goal. Some of your students can not react to a specific method but they can do much better with another one. From the other hand, the used method can be suitable for a specific content of a lesson but not for another one. Using the GTM or Direct method, for example, can be good in a lesson but not in another. Some students may react to TPR while others may not show clear reaction or great interest in the method. Choosing good activities or practice tasks is another factor here. Think carefully how you can assess your students new language and set the best activity for that. You can use pair or group work one time, and oral discussion other time, and many more activities.

Professional teachers

Professional teachers:

To sum up, being a good and successful teacher is not a talent, but a skill you learn and acquire through time. The list bellow shows the most important features of professional teachers:

Professional teachers:

1.      Know their students well.

Students are not only intellectual but also social and emotional beings, and all these dimensions interact to impact learning and performance.

2.      A Professional teacher respects students. 

In the classroom, each person’s ideas and opinions are valued. Students feel safe to express their feelings and learn to respect and listen to others. This teacher creates a welcoming learning environment for all students.

3.      Joke with their students and create relaxed class environment

4.      Are always patient with students

A professional teachers possess good listening skills and take time out of their way-too-busy schedules for anyone who needs them. If this teacher is having a bad day, no one ever knows. The teacher leaves personal baggage outside the school doors.

5.      Plan everything before they come to the class

Ø  Understand learner’s needs

Ø  Diagnose learner’s learning problems

Ø  Plan suitable instructional goals for lessons

Ø  Select and design learning tasks

Ø  Evaluate students learning

Ø  Design and adapt tests

Ø  Evaluate and choose published materials

Ø  Adapt commercial materials

Ø  Make us of authentic materials

Ø  Make appropriate use of technology

Ø  Evaluate their own lessons

6.      Develop a plan

Writing a personal professional development plan, will help you to identify the specific tasks and goals you need to complete to achieve progress in your career. Aim to identify both short-term and long-term goals with time scales included. This will focus your planning and enable you to monitor and assess your professional progress, as well as enhancing your personal motivation.

7.      Never waste time

A professional teacher understands the need to start the day well, every day. Truly professional teachers will make sure that they arrive at least ten minutes before the first bell rings, so as to prepare themselves mentally for the day ahead.

Demonstrate your competency

1.Demonstrate your competency

These days it is no longer enough to claim you have the skills and experience necessary to do a job; you need to provide evidence as proof. Once you have identified the competencies (knowledge, skills and behaviour) required for a specific job it is essential that you provide examples of how you acted in real situations in the past which demonstrate these competencies

2.Vary and use different teaching techniques

3.Look for the most suitable activities for students

4.Take an interest in every student

The better you get to know your students, the more influence you will have on their attitude towards your subject and on their lives in general. Remember the adage: "Teachers touch eternity; they never know where their influence may end."

5.Give their students enough time to learn and practice

It so easy to waste time in lessons and not accomplish what you want. Use time limits, say things such as: "Ok, you have 10 minutes to do the activity". This will push students into action. Put a timer in your classroom and let it ring when the time is over. Even better, have a student keep the time. Make it clear and include a timed agenda of how many minutes you are going to be spending on each part of the lesson. This ensures that your lesson moves swiftly and at a good pace.

6.Consult parents. 

Try to include parents in the educational process and encourage their support of the school's disciplinary processes and procedures. Be polite and calm when dealing with parents. Keep reminding them that every discussion about the child needs to be undertaken with the child's best interests at heart.

7.Take responsibility for your students' results. 

As a professional teacher, the grades your students achieve are a reflection on you. Bear this in mind, in all you do.

8.Focus on the goal

Being a professional teacher does not mean that you have to be uncaring or boring if you keep in mind these three principles:

1.See yourself as the students’ mentor, not their friend. 

Effective teachers care about their students and want to be involved in their lives, but they also realize that they must take the role of mentor, not friend. A mentor steers and guides his students without acting like their peer.

2.Be friendly, not familiar. 

Be friendly and open in your interactions with students, but avoid being familiar.

3.Care more about being effective than being liked. 

While everyone has an innate desire to be liked, you cannot let this natural inclination control you as a teacher. If you worry about whether or not your students like you, you won’t be professional, and your classroom will become very difficult to control. Instead, focus on your desire to be an effective teacher whom the students can respect.

Conclusion

Being a good and successful teacher is not a talent, but a skill you learn and acquire through time. The list bellow shows the most important features of professional teachers:

·       

Know their students well.

A Professional teacher respects students. 

Joke with their students and create relaxed class environment

Are always patient with students

Plan everything before they come to the class

Develop a plan

Never waste time

Demonstrate your competency

Vary and use different teaching techniques

Look for the most suitable activities for students

Take an interest in every student

Give their students enough time to learn and practice

Take responsibility for your students' results. 

Focus on the goal