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Wander and Learning In Foreign Country

admin / April 26, 2012 / No comments

Living away from home, rent a house near campus with friends, going to give you a lot of experience. One of them, learning to live next door.

Neighbour could be an elderly couple who have retired, or employees of various companies. Because not all your neighbours are students, so their schedules are different. Neighbour may not go to work every day, or hang out on weekends.

Neighbours so that you may succeed, try practicing a few tips that was launched the Moving Off Campus, Tuesday (04/10/2012) this.

Applies to both
Do not be indifferent to the neighbour. If someone looks difficult with luggage, help. If the family next door come to you and asked you down the music, do it.

Courteous to others is a basic rule in life. Most importantly, it could be a situation this is your first experience with a neighbour. So, apply all right with your neighbour.

Know who the security guard
Living in a society with a safety alert to sue you. This includes knowing who the security officers around where you live, and where the nearest police station.

Know the general limits
Screaming at two in the morning will certainly ruin your good relationship with your neighbour. Look around you and understand the habits of your neighbours, so, you will be able to create a good relationship with them.

In general, adapt to the social environment is not difficult. Your activity in campus will teach you to interact with other students. While living in the boarding house will give you the opportunity to learn to socialize with others.

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What is Homeschooling

admin / January 4, 2012 / No comments

Homeschooling is an activity to send their children at home in full. Understand this may seem a bit eccentric because while everyone send their children to public schools, why there is so people who send their children at home. Is not that tantamount to no school. The thinking like this happen because there is a historical process (cut off from history) who forget that the first school was at the start of the home. Only later after a teacher became a particular profession began to move into a school building named for the school.
Now, homeschooling experiencing a comeback, especially in the United States. This change occurs because of the education world had changed in the last century, the increasingly central institution in the hands of the state. Homeschool is a reaction to the change.
When categorized, the reasons for doing homeschooling can be written like this:
1. Schools do not teach the true faith to my children. Frankly, this is often the main reason for parents to download homeschooling for his son. At least 80% of homeschooling activists in America are of this class. They are Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians who do not want their children taught science as opposed to the scriptures.
2. Schools as educational institutions already dilapidated. A lot of bullying at school. Teachers can not educate properly, and even make your child stress. Not to mention that the school likes fighting and crime-prone. For the case of Indonesia, they are likely to send their children for this very reason, because of disappointment with educational institutions here.
3. Do not agree with the philosophy of education that is applied in schools. Approximately 10% of homeschooling activists in America have this view. They chose to send their children at home alone, with their preferred approach to education.
4. Parents want to take full responsibility for their children’s education. The reason this could have an alternative explanation of the three reasons above.
There are several objections to the school in a house that used to put forward people:
1. Parents are not professional teachers, how can they educate their children.
2. Children will not be sociable because they do not mix with other children at school.
3. Do not know what the curriculum should wear.
4. The cost to buy the book to be larger because they can not borrow books from the school.
I am trying to clear up the four objections above.
First, everyone who is actually older than for younger teachers. No one can not teach. Everyone who can read can teach others to read. Similarly, the arithmetic and others. But what about the hard sciences like physics and chemistry? Here lies the misunderstanding. Homeschooling does not mean that parents teach children, but parents learn with their children. So there is no requirement that parents must master the subject matter. If there is difficulty in mastering the material, assistance can be sought later.
Second, school at home does not mean the child should be locked up at home. Children can still be free to play with neighbours, or even sent to school in non-formal schools such as school sports or music school.
Third, now, with the ease of information technology, access to the curriculum can be obtained easily. Groups of homeschooling parents who run have also begun to emerge.
Fourth, the cost of homeschooling can actually lower, because it does not have to exit the building costs, uniforms, transport and pocket money. Indeed, shopping for books at the beginning will look great, but when divided per year will be much cheaper than the cost of the total school.

Noteworthy is that homeschooling requires a huge responsibility of parents to child development. It is a commitment that is not easy, especially for the city. Therefore, before deciding to run a homeschooling I can offer these suggestions:

1. Are you sure that you will prioritize your time and energy to your child’s education?
2. Seek as much information before deciding. If you can even chat with people who are running it.
3. Check at your local education office if your child can get a formal diploma or equations and how, because it relates to the continued study of your child at a higher level.
4. Do not force your child to homeschooling, give understanding to him. If he prefers a formal school, leave it alone. Unless the child is older, you can better give more consideration to your child, because she was a dialogue and debate can be invited if necessary.

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Present Students, Future Leaders

admin / December 31, 2011 / No comments

Students are a valuable national asset. Because after all, students will be in control of the nation’s largest. They will address the development, process economy, upgrading the education system, and others. Therefore, students must have high motivation and potential, and learn with a high quality education as well, so that later they will be able to perform an important role earlier.

The government has actually been making various efforts to improve the quality of education. One-way is by changing curriculum until find the effective learning system. But unfortunately, the replacement of the curriculum that has been applied to education in Indonesia is still not able to reach the maximum point. It was not entirely wrong government. Indeed, it played a major role and become the most important link in the education system in Indonesia is educators (teachers).

Ideally, a teacher should be able to give instruction in a professional manner based on the curriculum set by the government. Say CBC (Competency-Based Curriculum). A teacher should be able to understand and explore the CBC itself first before he presented it to students. But in fact, in the process of teaching in many schools, even in schools and pre-eminent ones, are often seen students and teachers are equally confused. The teachers are confused about how he used to present material based on the CBC. While the student was also confused, because he has not been able to adapt to the way teachers teach is still considered foreigners. In these circumstances, the students learn so uncomfortable. As a result the material learned can not be digested properly. And test scores became worse. Worse, the teacher usually always blame the students alone. He considers his students dumb, unresponsive, or a student learning the wrong way. In fact, what actually happens is the wrong way of teaching. Teachers still do not understand what is required of students.

Problems like this will lead to sustainable impacts are quite dangerous. For example, at the end of the semester, teachers are still not able to provide all the material has borne during one semester. As a result, students are given a multitude of tasks. Imagine if all the teachers in one school deal thus, would have a negative effect on the students themselves. Students will feel stressed and declining learning motivation.

Already seen, from this trivial fact alone could have known the quality of education in our country. Supposedly, the stimulus quality of education must make education a top priority. Therefore, students in the present is a leader in the future.

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Learning from the Delinquency Child

admin / December 20, 2011 / No comments

How to recognize different types of intelligences and learning styles of our children whether they have the intelligence of language, logic, spatial, or something else?

Thomas Armstrong, Multiple Intelligences expert, says there are two simple ways that we can use to identify the types of children’s intelligence. Thomas Armstrong’s opinion addressed to the teachers, but we can also apply outside the classroom.

Image One good way to identify the most highly developed intelligence of children is by observing the “mischief” they are in class. Delinquency of children is a kind of “appeal rebellion” against a particular learning style imposed. Because the children were regarded applied her learning style does not fit with their natural learning style, they cry out for help. And the way the children express their pleas for help it is to do the things that are considered adults as delinquency.

If observed, it turns out the children’s delinquency different expression. Children who have linguistic intelligence is usually often make remarks and jokes in words. Children who have spatial intelligence will doodling. Children who have interpersonal intelligence would chat with her friends. While children who have KINESTHETIC-kinesthetic intelligence can not sit still and continue to play catch with his friend.

Another simple observation indicator and can be used is to observe the way children use their spare time. By the time schedule of the child is not regulated externally by others, children can appear natural and candid. They are free to choose what activities she likes. Therefore, their activities demonstrate how they learn (learning style) and other types of intelligence that stands out about them.

Of course this observation is very simple. This simple but can we apply at home in children at home. Although we are not psychologists, at least, we can learn to get to know our children. Thus, we can more effectively while facilitating growth and development of our children.

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Studying with PQRST System

admin / May 10, 2011 / No comments

PQRST system is a way that was introduced by EL Thomas and Ha Rabinson in their book titled “Improving Reading In Every Class”. Here are five items that become the support of this system.

a) Preview

In this item students are advised to see headlines in the chapter and beyond anything seen editorials to be small in order to illustrate an important announcement or the contents of the whole chapter.

b) Question
Instead of this order, train the questions that may help you find important content. This way you can remembrance things more clearly.

​c) Read
Read the headline would be something more meaningful because each paragraph answers your own questions of order topics.

d) Self-Recitation
If you’ve read, you need to record or draw something to do with what is understood. Then read the contents of this important bill before without seeing that you please register.

e) Test
To ensure you have understood and remembrance of the facts should be, you need to make judgments by yourself. Two ways may be implemented specifically carry out the tests years without seeing a reference and use the answer to question techniques with the help of movement.

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