Come into Their world! :)

A day before, I prepared my teaching material for today, Monday 16th January 2012.
Learned from some text books and searched some info in the internet.
Beside looked for teaching material, I also looked for some fun games and funny stories.

Learning, games and funny stories is a unity in the class for elementary school students, even for adult.

I taught Bahasa Indonesia for an hour. I started the lesson by giving them some fingers games. To train their concentration and also to boost their mood to learn. It a bit helped me, even one of them already knew the games.

I read one story for them, the title is "Tukang Sepatu dan Liliput".
after listening carefully the story, I asked them to do their job, that was find the intrinsic element of the story.
Such as theme, figure, character, background, storyline and the message.
All of them did it well. Actually in the last semester, they have learned about this topic, so it wasn't hard for them to find all of the intrinsic element for one story.
One thing that funny about them is they tend to like a horror (murder, ghost story) or sad story then happy story. hhe
But I didn't give them that story, i'm afraid it could give them some negative impacts, such as become coward and maudlin.

At the end of lesson, I give them a short funny story, they were laughing, and I love to see them laughing. :D

And along the day in the class, feel so much better than yesterday.

So, the conclusion for today is, come into their world, and "play" with them, then we'll gonna have a fun class! :)

just writing,, :)

Today is saturday, 14th January 2012.

Last night, I suffer by fever and alhamdulillah, feel better now, just a bit caught and flu.
Today, I'll not go for teaching because still need some rest.

Trying to still make my saturday productive, I search some article and information about children psychology. I'm interested in this field. I found some articles and blogs. Nice to know some of them. Learning about children psychology will help me to understand my stundent in the class.

What I got today is the key of children psychology, patience. There are some behaviors of students that can make us angry. Actually, we shouldn't angry, just take deep breath, control our emotions and then tell them what they should and shouldn't do. It's not an easy job, but this is the challenge of all teachers, including me.

When you read this note and have some suggest for me, don't hesitate to do it ;)
More over if you have some links about psychology information, please share it. :)


cheerss up

Pengalaman di Jum'at ini, 13 Januari 2012

Hari ini sedikit terlambat bangun, biasanya saya bangun pukul 5 subuh. Tapi tadi bangunnya pukul 5.30. waktu indonesia tengah ya, :)

Memulai hari ini dengan perasaan agak kurang enak. Baru dua minggu saya beradaptasi dengan kelas saya yang sekarang, kelas 5 SD, namun sudah sedikit banyak mempengaruhi emosi saya.

Sebelum ditempatkan di kelas ini, saya ditempatkan di kelas 3 dan kemudian kelas 4. Tiap tingkatan ini tentunya memiliki  perbedaan dari karakter siswa.

Kelas 5 di sekolah ini adalah kelas tertinggi untuk saat ini. Sebagian dari mereka sudah mulai dewasa dalam bertingkah laku.

Menjadi wali kelas di kelas ini adalah sebuah tantangan buat saya. Jujur, tidak jarang saya merasa takut untuk memasuki kelas ini setiap hari. Takut tidak mampu menjadi "partner" yang baik untuk mereka yang mampu mengimbangi keinginan serta tingkat kecerdasan mereka.

Tiap memasuki kelas baru pasti ada pelajaran baru yang diperoleh. Di kelas ini, meskipun merasa canggung, saya tetap berusaha untuk menjadi yang terbaik bagi mereka.

Berusaha memahami karakter mereka satupersatu. Memenuhi kebutuhan mereka,menunjukkan hal yang benar dan mengingatkan ketika ada yang perlu diperbaiki.

Hari ini saya agak kurang enak badan, ingin pulang lebih awal. Tapi kemarin malam saya sudah berjanji pada salah satu murid untuk melihat drama yang ingin ditampilkan oleh "anak cantik" (sebutan untuk murid perempuan di sekolah saya) selama "anak cakep" sholat jum'at.

Saya menunda untuk pulang dan melihat drama mereka. Sangat lucu. Drama tentang "nenek-nenek hantu", tapi mereka membawakannya dengan gaya yang kocak. Senang sekali rasanya melihat mereka tertawa.

Menuggu hingga "anak cakep" selesai sholat jum'at. Kemudian memimpin doa makan siang serta menyampaikan beberapa pengumuman kepada mereka, setelah itu saya pamitan pulang kepada mereka.

Berharap senin besok kesehatan sudah fit dan bisa mengajar dengan baik dan menyenangkan. amin! :)

dimulai dengan 'bismillah'

Bismillah...
My first writing in this blog,

Last night, I bought a new sim card for my modem, in order to make me easier searching material for my students.
Making a blog was one of my plan.

i'm a teacher in one of islamic private school in Makassar,
hope by creating this blog, I could share "something" for others and got "something" from the others too :)


Cheerrrs uppp