In the last writing, I wrote about becoming a teacher. Well, tomorrow will be the first day for my friends and I to conduct a school experience. It will be different with the school experience in the first and second semester. In this semester my friends and I are asked to be teacher assistants. Furthermore, we are going to have teaching-practicetwice there. To be honest, I am so happy to face the school experience, however I am nervous if I think about what will happen during the school experience. Hope, everything going to be alright.
I remembered when I was in primary school. I had a book which consists of my friends’ mini data. Each data consist of name, place and date of birth and dreams. I remember that most of my friends wrote that they want to be a doctor. However, I wrote that I want to be a lecturer. My reason is simply because my parents are teacher and I want to be a teacher but I do not want to be a teacher like my mom or my dad (confusing isn’t it?). If there was someone asked me “why do you want to be a lecturer?” then I answered “because my parents are teacher and I like to be a teacher but one step higher than them, that’s why I want to be a lecturer”
I know that both teacher and lecturer are quite similar. The difference is only the class that they teach. And the other thing that I thought is quite similar is both of that profession is quite difficult. When my teacher in my primary school was teaching me, I thought that becoming a teacher is easy. Because I saw my teacher, they were only teaching me, and when the school hour was over, they could go home. However, all of that thought changes when I am in college. I am not only prepared to be a teacher who simply teach, but also teacher who can help students to understand the materials and to be what they want their dreams).
In Language Teaching Methodologies Course, I learnt about learning styles and learning strategies. Learning styles refer to the way that our students feel comfort when they studying. While, learning strategies refer to the effort on how we help them in order to reach the goal of learning. From that definition, I conclude that learning style and learning strategies related each other. As a candidate of teacher, it is a must to learn about it and later on it is required to apply it in a real class situation.
What I got from this course is that teacher cannot give the same treatment to all students. One of the reasons is because they are not the same individual. Each of them has their own interest, comfort and needs. Instead of giving the same treatment, a teacher is better to make a variety of lessons, material or activities. Because maybe there are students who like to learn while they are listening music, the others like to discuss with their friends etc. I think that is one of the important things that teacher must consider. It is not about what teacher gives to student but how the way teacher gives to students. One thing that I really believe is that when students feel comfort to study, they will get what teacher explained.
Then what I am really disappointed is that only some teachers apply that learning strategies or even for worse, they maybe did not know what learning styles are. As a teacher, according to my opinion, teacher should not only learn about pedagogical studies but also other things about students, because teacher and students related each other. I know that becoming a teacher is not easy, because I need to not only knowing my students but also understanding them. However, if we love our job, we will enjoy it forever.
One of my assignments in Environmental Studies Course is calculating our carbon footprint. I was asked to calculate how much electricity, water, waste, petrol and food that I used per day. I was wondering when I checked my carbon footprint. I released 42, 67938 kg of CO2 per day which means that I released 14340, 27168 kg of CO2 for one year. Well, that was ironic. To me this assignment help me a lot to not only knowing about knowledge but also understanding that knowledge is created to be practiced. Furthermore, it can be a reflective material for me.
Well, my mom always asked me to turn off the lamp, TV, fan and other appliances in order to make the electricity cost effective. At that time I just thought that there would no other reasons except effective cost. However, in Environmental Studies Course, I learnt not only to make the electricity cost become effective but also saving the earth. What does it mean by saving the earth? Simply, when we turn on the lamp or other appliance which use electricity means that we released the Carbon dioxide (CO2). This is because the electricity is made from fossil fuels which are roasted. Then the process of fossil fuels roasting released CO2. In the end the CO2 which has released will make the atmosphere slighter. As we know that atmosphere is a layer in the sky which protects the earth from sun. If we use the electricity wastefully, it will also give impact to the earth. Our earth becomes hotter day by day, because every day we contribute to release CO2.
I hope, my writing is not only making people who read it thinking about our earth but more on doing something to save our earth. I do understand that doing is not as simple as we read or speak or even write. However, starting point is on our self. Now or never. Let’s save our earth.
It is a common thing for almost people in my country to have a cell phone. At least, each member of a family has it. In the third session of TLL course, we discussed about the function of cell phone. We discussed it in term of teaching and learning process. Some people have it and use it to communicate with family, friends and others. However, as the technology growing fast, its function becomes different. Nowadays, cell phone has so many features, such as internet browser, camera, and video etc. People may use it only for entertaining themselves. However, as a candidate of English teacher for future, it reminds me. The nature of technology is only a tool to communicate something so that others can get the information. Long time ago, people only had a blackboard and chalks to write in the class. Then later, we have whiteboard and markers to write in the class. Even a blackboard and chalks quite existed a long time ago, at that time it was also a technology.
We are fortunate to live in the world where technology is being developed rapidly, especially in electronic. This is because the communication and almost everything is getting easier to do. We can only turn on our cell phone and then call whoever we want, you can also browsing on your cell phone, you can chat and others. To me, my self, the main function of my cell phone is just for communicating. Whether it has so many great features or not, it doesn’t matter for me. In the TLL course, my friends and I were asked on how do our cell phone work, how many features do we have in our cell phone, then the big question is “Can we apply it (Cell phone) as a learning tool?”
The question then come up to my mind. We can maximize what we have in order to make a successful teaching and learning process. Even though we only have a cell phone with only a few features, we can develop it into learning process. For example, we can use the music player in our cell phone. We can play it for our students in order to make students learn:how to pronounce a word or sentence in the right way. I believe if we can explore all of the features in our cell phone maximally, it will help us to support teaching and learning process. Now, the function of cell phone is not only to communicate but also a tool to support our teaching and learning process.
Environmental issue became an interesting topic to talk about. Some people around the world lately are more care about our environment but there are also some people who aren’t still care about our environment. On Friday 1st October,I’ve got an interesting course. It was environmental studies. This course is explaining about environment. To be honest, I only a little bit knows about environment issues such as; global warming, gas trading, disaster etc from articles which I’ve read. However, I couldn’t really imagine how all of those issues happen. In this course, I knew (although a bit)
The opening of my first environmental studies course was great. We are introduced to the material in the interesting way. My lecturer played us a video from Koes Plus which is Bukan Lautan tapi Kolam Susu. The song is so cheerful, it describes about how easy live in the earth. Everything is there and we can take it whenever we can. One of the lyric also said “a wood stick and stone can be a plant” It means that everything in the earth can be a resource for people who live in. Unfortunately, it was an old song, it was famous in 90’s. Today the reality is different. The earth is not as save as in the past. In the end of this course, there is a missing piece in my heart. I just realize that the earth is a place where we live and it is an obligation for us to protect it. The feeling is like I only take the earth for granted. I only take a lot of things from our beloved earth without knowing the feeling of earth itself (as if earth can speak)
“There is always interdependency on each creature that lives in the earth; human, animal, plant and every single thing in this earth. That is why we need to help and protect each other” (Syarifah, 2010)
“The Journey” is a title of my blog because I have some reasons, here they are:
·T: Time is always flying
·H: However I often do not realize it
·E: Everything is change
·J: Journey is started
·O: Off and on are always become my fears
·U: UnlessI still stand on His way
·R: Risk will just like a piece of cake
·N: No one always get the easy way
·E: Extra miles are required to reach every dream and goal, and
·Y:Youth is the best time to strive and bring it into reality
The note above is only an opening for giving deeper elaboration about my reasons. Well, “The Journey” is described my life including my learning life. The philosophy is life and learning has quite similar things. We need to prepare ourselves before we decide something in our life. We also need a lot of things before we learn something, at least we know what we are going to learn. In the end of this journey, of course we will find our destination. Then I think my destination is my dreams. One thing that I will never stop this journey is because I will never ever stop dreaming.
This blog is also a part of my journey on how do I reflect to myself , especially do I really understand about my courses in my college or am I really right to decide something in my life. Well, maybe this blog is also a place for me to think about everything. Hopefully, this blog will also help you all guys to share everything.
Hello everyone, my name is Nur Hidayatus Syarifah. However, you can simply call me Ifa or Ifah, beautiful name isn’t it? I am an student of Sampoerna School of Education. I like writing and singing. I really like Pablo Neruda’s poems and love songs, so romantic isn’t it?
I am a dreamer and I will never ever stop dreaming.
Here in my blog, I am trying to express myfeeling, share knowledge, and write a lot of interesting stuff. Why do I name this blog as “The Journey”? You will find it in my first posting.
P.S: the picture above is my brother and sisters, because I love them so much. :D
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