Micro Teaching

By meilani rl

            For this session I had learned about micro teaching, all of my friends had showed their lesson plan and the way they will teach their students. It was very interesting and made me realized that a teacher has to be creative and take a lot of responsibility in making lesson plan. The success or not learning objectivities depends on the success teacher made and did their lesson plan. From last session I started think that what should I do when I have to make lesson plan what method that will support my learning process. In the micro teaching all of the groups combine two or three methods to deliver the materials for example direct method and lecturing discussion or guided discover and group interaction.

            I was very happy when I knew I will teach senior high school but it is like nightmare for now. But it is a challenge for me to proof that I deserve to be a new generation of teacher, it just a little process on my way to the bright future. I feel that last session was prepared us for enter teacher’s assistant next week, I hope I will use all of things that I found in the class so it will be meaningful for my students. 

Learning with Mall

         by : Meilani Ristiana Limbong

      Teaching learning in the new era of technology required us to combine all of them into a system that support us in collaborative learning. In this session I was taught about mobile learning how these technologies provide some applications which makes learning easier. According to Kukulska and Shield (2008) mobile learning is undergoing rapid evolution, it means that the mobile learning is always develop by the creator in order to design a system to fulfil learner’s need. They are some mobile learning that currently used such as mobile phones, PDA, IPod, Mp3 player. Many people said that those technology has many advantages one of them are portable but in the other hand we also know that technology also has many disadvantages for example make people individualistic, need a lot of cost to provide it and etc.

            As a teacher we realized that we need that kind of technology but the most important thing is the content that we taught to them, how well we organized class and make them reach the learning objectivity. It means that our pedagogy and the technology must be balance and support each other. As a teacher you cannot always reliant to the technology, how about the teacher in the past or teacher in the isolated place, are they stop teaching because there are no technology provide them? No. you are the teacher it means you and your students are the centre of the learning process. But we lived in the world that always progress by the day so we have to increase our capability too. As we know with some of the technology we can combine some of the collaborative learning like speaking and listening, writing and multimedia or maybe with other major such us physic, biology and economic.

            The most important thing in this session was I have to be a multi teacher, I mean the capability to mix between those kind of technology and the pedagogy approach.

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Models of teaching

            At the fourth meeting I was taught about models of teaching that divided into four items they are direct method, guided discovery, lecturing discussion and group instruction. It was an interesting study to know what the effective way to teach my students is. Actually this lesson has same goals with another course that I had taken in language teaching methodology where I was taught about method of teaching too but they has different name. In PETA I know about guided discovery in other major I had silent way, when I realized about it I was asked my lecture and she said that it was depend on the book that written by different author.

            For me this course is important to us in preparation for teaching assistant. Although I am not going to teach now but it will help me to analyze my students what is the best method, should I use one of them or maybe combine them. I hope the more I learn about it the more I will apply it well, but for me now I prefer to guided discovery among all I was interested to the method because it contains some activity that need movement, games, discussion and team work. Consider I am a kinesthetic I really love teach my students in an active way.

That’s all for this time and keep fighting to be a best teacher.   

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Digital Native and Digital Media

By : Meilani Rl

            “Facebook, YouTube, Webquest, Skype…. Are there support my teaching process?”

            At the third and fourth meeting I was taught about digital native and media, it was interesting that we talked about how some social network can help me as a teacher in learning process. I had some point that I never realized before through some my friend’s presentation I know that we can use it, yeah.. We can use Skype for distant learning, or even we can use Facebook to make some fun activity.

            As a teacher I hope that I can use the entire social network to grab my student’s interest, but in the other hand it has many disadvantages for example the link that is misuse. We cannot avoid the fact that now students have right to access everything in the computer even the forbidden things. So my duty now is how to make some creative lesson by the technology even make them aware to using it appropriately. Actually the students is not too hard to control like we think, as a teacher we are not supposed to control them all the time what we can do is make them think to the reality, what is the best for them, why some links are inappropriate to them and what kind of activities they allow to use. in brief explanation we have to make our students who they are and what are things that they will face in real world to help them decide the right decision.

            As people who live in the digital era, it can be a benefit or even some dangerous things for us, but whatever it is the most important thing is our mind set. We learn about life day by day and we have right to choice, so whatever it can be it depends on how we see a life. Even this is a digital era we still a human who has to make our own life goes properly.   

     
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My name is Mei

“How long are your names? How many words it was taken? Did you bring your daddy’s name or is that Chinese name?”

            My name is Grace Meilani Ristiana Limbong, it is a long name though there are many long names is the world. I was born in Serpong, Jakarta in 1990 when the most favourite film “unyil” booming in that time. One part of my name was taken from the girl’s character whose name was Meilan, she was a talkative Chinese girl which live with her Grandpa. My mother loved that film very much and finally she gave me that name as symbol of the month and her favourite film.

            My second names are Ristiana based on my mother explanation it was a sweetener for me, she hopes that I will always be her sweet girl in every part on this life. For the last name it is a parent’s name from my father, he was born in batak’s tradition so he have to give his name on me, so my last name was showed that I had Batak’s culture. Actually I have a Baptist name and it has a long story why I had that name. I was on 17 years old when I got some trouble in my life, accidentally I realized that there were some cancer in my body and it made me so depressed. I thought that there no time anymore for me, but my mother and my friends always support me to face it. One year I was facing the big giant in my life and I came as a winner that’s way the priest gave me a name “Grace” because my life is only because  God’s grace.

            For me my name is describe me as a real person in this life, I always believe that we will be what we faith for. So I believe that my name are precious as me in my mother’s life, even if I have a chance to replace it I will not ever change my name. I love my names very much even tough many people misunderstanding with my name, they guess me a Chinese girl "mei-mei" or maybe they think that my names is too heavy for me. I love my name and I always use it whenever I will go around the world, I believe that someday I will be a great people and it will be my pride to show people what is my name.

My religion, Your religion and Our's religion

My religion, Your religion and Ours religion

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

 Whenever you enter into it take with you your all”

(2010, Khalil Gibran, The Prophet)

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            What do you think about some religion that different from your own? That is made you feel uncomfortable? Make you feel disgusting? Some people maybe say yes for the statement, or maybe some people never care about religion. But this is Indonesia where religion is one of most important problem which until now is still being a complicated case.

            A few days ago there were a bomb happened in solo, and it held in a church. A few month ago there were a bomb happened in a mosque, so what does it means? Are there any related things between to cases? Until now nobody now about why “they” did all of bomb because we don’t have any criminal, they were died with the bomb. The only one I know from this case is you cannot think that you save even in the holy place. So what is relating you as teacher and differentiation?

            As a teacher we will face many problem that talked about a differentiation, it could be religion, ethnic, language or even skin colour (maybe it happened in others country). Sometimes we will face a sensitive case like religion, as we know we are surrounded by thousand islands with different religion and ethnic. For example a case that had been happened in Sampit, it contains both of sensitive problems so what should we do? Should we avoid that? Can we pretend to don’t know about that?. Like Khalil Gibran said your religion is your temple and your daily life, it means your believing is what act you had done in real life, you cannot said A but you did B because your students will watch you as a real model. You are what your body present.

            The first things we can do are accept that diversity things as a uniqueness, with a right mind set in an acceptation we can respect to one another. All of us have a right to believe a religion, so accept it, and respect it because we cannot force other’s heart. I hope during learning about Humanistic study we are going learn to accept other people’s perception as beauty of life, you have your own religion and I have my religion so all of we have ours religion in our heart. As a teacher we will face many students, many points of view and many kind of religion. You can be a different but you are not allowed to underestimate other person, every people are created by an awesome creator that we called God. So, when you ignore someone because of her or his belief it means you are throwing your God.

            In others words when you choose teacher as your life, you have to learn to respect each others and accept many differentiation as a complementary things in your life. Love person that love you and also person that hate you even hurts you, this is life we don’t know what will happen tomorrow all we can do is doing what the best for today that is what I wanna learn on this course in this semester. I hope we can be a great people with a great mind set in seeing problems through a right way.


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Technology in Learning Process

Language Teaching Methodology

(Technology in teaching at 21^st century

         A long ago people always did their activities so limited there were no cellphone, no computer or many things that you used now. But now life is very easy as we know we can break the entire obstacles like distance, time or even money. You can chat with your friend all over the world with internet, you can visit other country through a website know it well as you come in reality. As a new generation of teacher these facilities support our teaching learning to be a creative learning. We can use all of the things to make our lesson interesting and absorb easily, even you can teach them without face to face each others. Knowing about all the advances sometimes that technology has some disadvantages that are why I need learn about this course. 
            Being a teachers it means I will facing a lot of kind of students who had familiar with all technology, sometimes it will make my lesson are easily explained but in others way it can be boomerang when it use inappropriate (Some of news had said that today many people access their internet inappropriate such as for pornography or criminal things L ).

Through this course I learn to use technology for teaching, it means using it for something that useful for me and my students. In my first meeting I had learn about history of technology, when it was come out and how the technology developed. I think it was very important because as a role model sometimes our students need that information (I mean an curiosity students maybe J ). In a second session I was taught about some kind of ICT can help me in teaching learning? Why I should concerned on that? By the session I had knew that technology is not always can help you, even many people use it does not mean that it will be our domain source. There are many places cannot use computer because there were no provider can support them. Or maybe there are still a lot of school that is poor or limited in provide facility. That was realize me we are still need improvement, and I will be the agent of change. Are you agree with me?

            Now I realize as a teacher I have to be prepare what will going on me in the next future, are world will still at this time? Or maybe there will be many progressions on the technology? So what are you thinking about? Can you predict it form now?


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