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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An Effective Teacher

         In the 21^st century teacher has many a lot of things to do, because their students grow up fast along the time. Now as a teacher we had a big duty to be an effective teacher who brings the students to see what is happening in the world. According to Chris Kyriacou (2007, Effective Teaching in Schools) there are three interrelated perspective into an effective teaching they are teacher’s perspective, pupil’s perspective and the last is activities perspective. He also said that when you become a teacher you should doing your work maximal, it’s refer to the quality of time, quality of instruction, and how you make the learning process be an active learning.

           For me being an effective teacher is not talking about new appearances which better than old teacher though it was important too. An effective teacher is a teacher who can impart the knowledge indirectly through an active learning. I hope my students will get what I want they have to learn through game, movie, music, drama and etc. I don’t want to make my students only focus on score without knowing why they have to learn. The important thing in learning is you can absorb and apply it well, sometimes people said that result is more important than result. It was remains me when I was in senior high school, my teacher always taught me to get a high score , they only reread and asked us to rewrite what we had read (it was a useless time I ever had).

Now as a teacher, we are going to teach a new student who grow up with a new system in education. Students have responsibility on their learning process they have to think how to solve a problem rather than rewrite textbooks.  I think it will be a new challenge for me to always improve my   capabilities as a teacher. Through this course PETA (principles of effective teaching assessment) we prepare to be an effective teacher, it means teacher’s candidates will learn about how to  asses their students, how to make some fun assignment, and of course we have to learn how to be an effective teacher. 

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