My Teaching Phyloshopy

Many of people have different description about teacher. Most of them think that teacher is a person who give or share their knowledge to another people or students. And there are also many of metaphor about teacher. In my mind, metaphor of teacher is like heart of life. I think it is very simple. The body is a student and heart is a teacher; because, heart will be pumping blood in the body. The blood it’s like the knowledge and if the heart does not pump, it will be died. So, like a teacher who gives knowledge to students with continued and pumping the students until they could reach their dream.

Being a teacher is also make the students understand with that they learn, but actually is not easy as they look. A good teacher is not only share about their knowledge yet they should being a friend, good attitude and give a moral lesson to students.

First of all being a good teacher is like a friend for them. Being a good listener make them feel noticed and respectful. In addition, make a good environment for student. With create good environment, I think they will feel comfort first and make them enjoy when they study. But, besides that teacher should keep the position as a leader and make them also respect with the teacher.

Second thing is good attitude. I remembered Javanese quote “Guru: Digugu lan ditiru” its means that a teacher should have a good attitude and it will be a role model for students. For example is simple attitude like smile and greetings. Not like when I was in Elementary school, the teacher had been smoking in a class and only gave many assignments with little bit explanation. It also happened in senior high school. The teacher gave little bit explanation then gave us an assignment while he played with his cellphone.

In addition, being a good teacher should give them a moral lesson too. A teacher is second parents at school. Giving moral lesson will form them to be a good character too. Like honesty, confident, and persistence.

All in all, I think being a good teacher not only about the skill to share knowledge but a teacher should be a role model and keep motivate students to be a good person and good intellectual.

Whittle pencils

Whittle Pencils

Some years ago, a little girl lived with her grandmother. She asked her grandmother about her life. Why was her life not as luck her friend? She always failed and failed. Her grandmother smiled and very patient heard her grandchild question. Suddenly, her grandmothers hug her and tried to remember something. Then, she asked her grandchild to remember about the competition that the girl had.

The girl remembered the competition then started over her story. She told the story to her grandmother. Someday, she joined the competition in her school. She joined whittle pencils competition. It sound funny competition but it was very exciting competition for children since the competition whittle the pencils as much as they had in 10 minutes. She remembered, the first time joined the competition. She heard the announcement that her school will be held a competition for annual anniversary for her country. As usual many of competition held and she really excited with whittle pencils.

Almost every day in her home, she tried to prepare that her whittle was the best. As the rule, they could not allow to whittle by sharpener, so the participant should whittle the pencils by cutter First time, she tried to whittle her pencil but it was bad. The pencil was broken and dull. Then, she used her savings money to buy pencils and cutter. She started over to whittle her pencil, but each pencil that she whittle always broken and dull. She had not get a sharp pencil until she has run through 10 pencils. But, she was not gives up. She had new idea to try with bamboo stick. It was cheaper than she should buy more pencils. Then, she tried to whittle and whittle till she got the sharp bamboo stick.

In that day of competition, her friends underestimated and laughed her that she was not good at whittle pencil. But, she was not hear them and believed that she also could do it. With confidently, she started to whittle her first pencil. Time went on and she only finished 5 pencils in that competition. Though she only finished 5pencils and got in the third winner, she was very happy because she could finish her whittle pencils sharply and the pencils not broken. After she has done the story, her grandmother looked at her grandchild and smiled again.  She said, “You have done the best”. She did the competition best and kept the persistence from failure to reach the success. She did not think about the first winner but her process to give the best for the competition.

Like a quote from Choirul Tanjung in his biography “Chairul Tanjung Si Anak Singkong”

None of success can be reached like tipping over palm of hand. Needed perseverance, persistence, and high discipline and never give up reaching ambition. (Thjahja Gunawan Diredja, 2012)

So, every people had ever gotten failure in their life. It depend every person to work out their failure. They will keep it and give up or make it become a bridge to reach a success.

social pressure

SOCIAL PRESSURES BEING STUDENTS

Being student is not easy as its looks, especially in Indonesian college. A student should have good intellectual and high creativity. Besides, student also should be able in good socialization among their friends, lectures and people. But, the fact is not easy to do and make pressure for several students. And, one of pressure that influences students is social pressure. It consist three major social pressures. There are social environment, relationships, and social culture. 

First, being students’ social environment might make pressure for them. Environment adaptations in a new places; such as, in college, boarding house, neighbor sometimes make them feel not confident and need for several times to adapt with it.  The other social environment pressure is life style. It cannot denied that life style in college make pressure for them; for example, clothing, food, and gadget. Furthermore, social environment intercourse also make pressures them. As a result, it makes students being not confident and feel loneliness.

The other pressure is relationship. Relationships can be a positive because they can encourage and motivate us. But, relationships also make pressure for students. Friends or classmates can be an enemy for students. They are competitor to get the best grade in a college. Then, lectures might make pressure for students. For example, the lecture gives many assignments and the student does not like with the lecture, it will hard for them to follow the subject. In addition, parents make pressure for them too. Parents’ desirability wants their children get good grades and get best tittle; and, they demand being that they want. Indeed, relationships are really influence for students to get good socialization but, sometimes it makes pressures and make frustrated.

Third, social culture is also makes pressure for students. Language became constraint if they are not from the region of native language. Although they have national or international language, it still hard for them and it makes miss communication. Then, students character every region are also different. For example, characters Batak people are different with java people. It became miss conception like tunes voice and dialect speak. Moreover, stratums also make students being pressure because students come from various circle and families. They will feel strange and sometimes they will be bullied. In short, social culture could make students pressures when they have miss understand with the native culture.

Last of all, social pressures being students can influence them in their study and their future. Whatever the pressures that students have, it has being risk and must be do. Because being students should be strong and be able in any condition and situation.

Dream

The Influences to Reach a Dream

Never stop dreaming; because, life is full of dream about the future that we want. Dream can about anything; but, it is not easier to reach. It is need hard work to prove. Sometimes, we will feel give up and many people will underestimate about it. But to reach a dream, there are several things that influences. It consist three major, our self, endurance, and environment condition.

First of all is our self that is the most influence to reach a dream. Our strong desirability is needed because without strength desirability it never comes true. There is not only our strong desirability, our effort also influence to reach a dream. Dream not only words but should reach by our effort. Our effort determined our success. Furthermore, the motivation to our self is also important. Our self- needed motivation to keep the spirit to reach a dream. It can be reading the motivation books or following motivation events like Mario Teguh or Andre Wongso.  Actually, to reach a dream all of them started by our self.

The other influence to reach a dream is our endurance. The endurance from many challenges that surrounding us. The challenges can be compete with the other competitor and challenges to wielding every opportunities. The problems also can examine our endurance. Many problems will be turn up as long as we through to reach a dream. It depend us to solve the problems. In addition, the endurance to encounter failures also influences.  That could not deny that failure is the seasoning to reach a dream. Sometimes, we should fall many times before to get success. In short, endurance made us to be stronger and more persistent to reach a dream.

Third, environment condition is also influence to reach a dream. The environment condition can be facilities that available as support to reach a dream. A dream is never come true if the facilities are not available. The facilities are appropriate with a dream that want to reach. The other environment condition is relation. Building a good relation with society, organizations and companies can make many opportunities. Moreover, competition is also influence in environment condition. There will be many competitions; and, it is needed more creative and critical to cope-the competitors. Indeed, environment conditions include a part of influence to reach the dream that cannot be separated.

In summary, Dreaming is easier to do but not easier to reach. There are many things that influences. All of them started from our self, our endurance to encounter many problems and failures; and, environment condition that can support to reach a dream. Always keep dreaming and never give up being a success.