Voice of Toianas
instructional method ala Toianas
If you meet a person and
you want to shock him, I suggest you to only tell him that you live
in Toianas, and you will see many negative responses from him. I
actually teach there. I felt that at the first time when I was just
told to go there, the devils of the place had come to fetch me. The
people story, I lately realize, that is only a storytale frankly
scared me and my friends. Many of my friends laughed at me when they
know my place of teaching.
But their laughter
challenged me... I wouldn't be scared.. I knew my ancestors came
around from this place... you would know it if you ask them too where
“Selan”(my surname) come from. I want to start my carrier from
here. I decided to stay.
It so long story. Now let
me shorten it. After staying here, I found that my knowledge about
method and technique in teaching English don't really help me. The
students psychological aspects are not the same as what the
psychologists wrote and what I studied at university, even I have to
confess that those become my fondation to assess my students...
method I learnt in university were not able to be applied here. .
Sometimes they were so officially bored. I need to find a new method.
I also have to explain that may be some people misunderstand what
method is, what I mean by method is just like CBSA (cara belajar
siswa aktif) which is applied for such a long term, while what is
usually written on RPP (Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran) as Metode
is actually Technique if I see from what I was taught in university.
The method I mean should
pay attention to the moral of students in Toianas (I am proud to say
this, that I firstly realize it before our president made his speech
about pendidikan berkarakter even pembuatan RPP berkarakter bangsa).
I ever wanted to write about “robohnya moral kami” after I read
A.A.Navis story about “robohnya surau kami”. So, I really need a
method that make my students to be more emotionally clever. Since I
taught that English is not what I have to teach them but moral
control. If they can control themselves, have thought about their
future and their aim of lives. I can make sure that they finally can
get not only English that I teach but every teaching material and
unteaching material; maybe, this is what “clever in spiritual”
means. It should be importantly know too that my people are clever
because we have culture to control our behaves which I similarize it
as SQ (spiritual Quality); other people may have IQ, or EQ but we
have our SQ which make us clever.
And I keenly want to see
my students have it. Teach English and bring back my students to the
culture is my plan to get SQ.
I also suggest English
teachers around Soe to modify their method. Not like method we have
been taught in our teachery education but based on our place of
teaching. Many method were created by people outside our province,
just based on their place.... why should be apply it in our place in
which we have different characters, condition and situation.
I also want to blame the
education department... why should we decide technique (read in
RPP:metode) night before we teach? Which become bored in the teaching
process. I think it should be decided 15 minutes before teaching
after the teacher enter the class, see the mood of students.
Just as my people who
have hard characters, with their story to scare teacher to be
creative. Not only that, my students have a bad habit of decieving.
They very often lie me...
so these become
background of my decision to make my own method by cutting and
pasting several methods I learnt in university. This method I
simplify it just like technique but is still have to be applied for 1
year at least.
Orientation.
At the early of semester,
I apply “warung jujur” program. By this program I want to tell my
students that decieving is wrong and students should not do it. Just
creativily design a game to find out whether students are honest or
not. And continue it with discussion of decieving impact. It should
be led to the saying “honest to yourself”
Physical game before
teaching process
educational practitioners
call it set induction or opening. I prefer to use term in sport that
is warming up. At this moment students are guided to be relax but
still have consentration. Make a game to call to earth the students
thinking other things or they who have been bored for any reasons.
Evaluation every month
teacher should have
evaluation on students, their behaves, their cognitives to know their
developments. It is also to evaluate whether the techniques applied
work out or not. For students who are more: active, pasive, teacher
should have separate sheet evaluation.
And finally other aspects
applied in our commonly method can be used again. Such as formative,
summative and so on. But I suggest English teachers to create class
as daily life situation. That's all from me..
