Teacher candidate is learning

                Last meeting, me and my friends had a discussion about models of instruction. At first, what I have known is about teaching method. I considered that models of instruction and teaching method are different. In the end of the session my lecturer told me that they are similar. Let me share about what I have got from this lesson. There are four models. 

1.       Lecturer – Discussion.

In this models, the students` time talking is bigger than the teacher`s time talking. In this model students should be more active. Through discussion, teacher delivers the course. While delivering, teacher asks students some questions, relate to the topic. It is done to check students understanding. So, Q and A is one method to involve students in the discussion. That is why the models called Lecturer Discussion. 

2.       Direct – instruction

Teacher need to exist in this model, because in this model there is a phase that teacher is a guide. Still, in this model the students should be active. They need to explore what the teacher has delivered through the course in order to increase their understanding. 

3.       Group interaction

This is complex models. Same like the other models, it also makes students active. The students will be grouped and then they have to work with their peers. It will train their collaborating skill, leadership, interacting skill and also creativity. Teacher is the guide. Even though this is good model, teacher needs to be smart to arrange the time. This model need more time than the others because of the complex activity included.

4.       Guided discovery

Teachers’ role and students’ role will change. Teacher is not information provider but a coach. Students are not receiver information but explorer. In this model, students will be more active. They must be responsive for themselves, in term of looking information relate to the topic. The unique one from this model is teachers’ scaffolding students’.

The thing that is good from the whole instruction is students should be more active. In teaching and learning, being curious is important. That is why students have to ask and never feel shy to ask. As a teacher, he/she has to be willing to answer or give guidance to the answer relate to the question.

Everything is good based on the context

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Internet VS Language Laboratory

          By the time am being, I will become a teacher. A teacher who has ICT basic. So that, this course Technology in teaching and learning is very useful for my friends and I. In the last meeting we had a debate. It was about preferences of using internet to language laboratory. I have no experience of using language laboratory in my senior high school. Instead of that, I am so familiar with internet.

Why it should be internet?

Why it should be language laboratory?

I can not choose which one is better and which one is worse. Everything depends on the context. It should be better if a school the two things. I know everything has its good and bad.

Internet usage

Safe/unsafe

http://bayoekmex.blogspot.com/2010/09/internet.html

Many people will say that using internet for children is not safe, because many bad things exist there include cyber-crime. The thing is how we use the internet is. In teaching and learning, teacher will have her/his role to conduct students. Teacher should be smart and selective through the material or site that must be visited by students to support the learning process. Sometimes, we may think that it is possible to control the whole internet usage in school. No need to worry, we still have an alternative. By blocking some sites that regarded as unsafe for children may help us in controlling our students.

Economic

Actually, using internet will spent more money than language laboratory. We have to spent fund each month. When we see the impact of this, it will not be useless, because the internet is very helpful in learning process.

Language Laboratory

Safe/unsafe

http://bedrebhashe.blogspot.com/2008/09/language-laboratory-for-learning-spoken.html

Using laboratory is safe, because the teacher will control the students’ computer.

Some of us may think that there is no kind of activity can be held in Laboratory. It is caused by the limited place. We cannot take this for granted. Somehow, as a teacher we have to be creative to think in using the unlimited resources while we are teaching include the place. Language laboratory can help students in integrating the four skill of language learning; reading, writing, listening and speaking. By using computer as the media of language learning, it will make the learning process can be more fun.

Economic

The budget for language laboratory is relatively cheaper that internet, because it is only for the first time build it.

That is all what is in my mind relate to the issue  “internet usage and Language laboratory”.

         

Being Teacher should be smart and selective

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Me is I am

         Well, now I want to share about history of my name. Firstly my name is Eka Budi Utama. My parents hoped that their baby is a boy. 

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They have prepared that name the days before my birthday. On 19th November 1992, I was born and I am a girl in fact. My mother and my grandmother kept keeping that name to me. So, at that time my name was Eka Budi Utama. Then my father did not allow them to give me name like that. He changed it into Eka Siti Utami. It sounds weird, my mother thought. My mother did want to have a grandchild whose name is Eka. It was hard at the time, until my mother decided to change E become I. That is why my name is Ika Siti Utami. 
 

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            Every name has its own meaning. So that my name has meaning. Ika, that is a word that attached in Indonesia`s motto “ Bhineka Tunggal Ika”. It means unity. Siti is a name that indicate a girl’s name. Utami means first. Ika Siti Utami means, the first girl in my family who will be the best in everything and become unity maker. That is history of  my name and the meaning of my name. There was discussion and debate to make it. So that I must be happy to have this name as mine. That is why I never want to change my name.

My boy friends and I

            Based on the story of my name, I realize something. I am boyish girl. I prefer play with boys to girls since I was in elementary school. I assume that this is caused my parents expectation to have a baby boy. I used to play soccer, basketball, kite, car and top with my cousins. Now, I am still boyish. Maybe I can not change it from myself. 
My friend, Kris always call me as a boy with veil. I never take it as grant.I know that is a joke. When I was in junior high school I used to call as Diel Piero because of my short hair at that time.

            Based on my name, my mother always hope that I can be the best person. Since I was in elementary school my mother always force me to have the first at class, at least the third best. Honestly, it was hard. Until I realized that my mother expectation is the best for me and I also hope to be the best in everything.

            In some occasion, people think that I am bataknese for the first time meet me. It is because I live in Medan. In another case, some people do not believe that I am from Medan because my face is Javanese like. They think that everyone lives in Medan is bataknese. They are totally wrong. Medan has many tribes inside. There are Javanese, Chinese, Bataknese and many others. I suggest to everyone who never visit Medan to come to Medan and see what kind of people inside.

               Once, when I asked to make a logo that represent my, here it is my logo.

  The color of the cubes is blue, it means soft. I choose cubes that has 6 sides, means everyone may see me from 6 different side. It is all up to them. I can be good, bad, kind, cruel, silent and strict whenever it needed. I put my signature, it shows that I am proud to be myself.Star in the letter "I" means that I must be a star and be the number one, at least for my parents.

 Everything has its own meaning and meaningful

           

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