UNAS

Hari ini, hari kedua pelaksanaan UNAS SMA..termasuk hari kedua ku tanpa murid-muridku...jadi ada waktu untuk kembali blogging lagi :D biasanya ga sempat sama sekali (sok sibuk :p)
Minggu depan, anak-anakku SMP yang akan mulai UNAS..

Aku sempat nulis juga artikel tentang UNAS bertahun-tahun yang lalu di blog ini..(baca ya kalo sempat :D)

UNAS..UNAS..ooo UNAS...
Satu kata yang jadi momok bagi sebagian siswa..
satu kata yang jadi guyonan bagi sebagian yang lain...

Berita di koran pagi ini bikin aku sebagai pendidik jadi miris...hal sama dulu sempat membuatku jadi "lose passion" for a momment....bikin aku yang dengan idealisme tinggi jadi terasa kehantam realitas pahit dan jadi lebih realistis...

Di tulisan kali ini aku sedang ga ingin membahas masalah dan rumor seputar UNAS (lagi ga mood untuk mengkritisi ;p)...

Just wanna emphasize a message for all my kiddos...

UNAS is a phase of life..your life...
It can be an obstacle..indeed...but how you react to those obstacle that count...
In the future, you will have many obstacle (I don't wish you for it but it's common things in life) and how you deal with it, how you encounter it that matter...
Will you choose the easy path??
Will you struggle for your own sake? for your own future?
Do you have enough confidence in yourself?
Do you have enough faith on the matter of right and wrong?

I wish you choose the right path, although it may not smooth and easy...
I wish you have wisdom to choose the right decision instead of the wrong one..
I wish you have courage to fight for your own future...and not let anyone provide the future for you...
I wish you the best...
I wish your success..
May God's mercy and blessing always upon you....

TIDAK ADA ANAK YANG SULIT…

Kemarin sambil nunggu proses akreditasi, aku sempat baca buku dengan title di atas, karangan Bapak Julianto Simanjuntak dan Ibu Wita Ndraha, dan dari buku itu ada satu quote yang menjadi ide pembuatan buku itu, yaitu..

“TIDAK ADA ANAK YANG SULIT….YANG ADA HANYA ORANGTUA/GURU YANG KESULITAN MENDIDIK ANAK”

Sebagai guru, aku seringkali mendengar ucapan seperti ini :
“Duh..anak saya udah ga bisa dibilangin..ngelawan terus..kurang ajar..bla..bla..bla..”
“Duh, anak itu ga pernah mo belajar…”
Itu jika anaknya mulai remaja…

Untuk temen-teman yang punya anak yang masih balita kadang tercetus..
“Anakku rewel terus..Anakku manja..dsb”

Menurut buku ini sebenarnya tidak ada anak yang sulit, tidak ada anak yang terlahir kurang ajar, rewel, manja, dsb…tetapi orangtua dan lingkungan (include teachers) yang membentuk seorang anak…

Ada suatu kejadian yang dialami oleh Bu Wita dengan anaknya yang bungsu “Duh..napa sih manja banget anak itu..” Lalu suaminya menimpali “Tidak ada anak yang manja..yang ada, hanyalah ibu yang memanjakan anak..”

Dari situ, aku tersadar bahwa seandainya ada suatu “masalah” atau ada yang “salah” dengan seorang anak, berarti hendaknya orangtua yang intropeksi diri dulu, sebelum judgment seorang anak…

Kalo seorang anak selalu aja ga bisa bangun pagi, alhasil terlambat ke sekolah…maka liat dulu jam berapa si anak berangkat tidur..kalo terlalu malam, maka hal inilah yang harus diubah..bukan si anak yang dimarahin karena ga bisa bangun pagi…

Kalo seorang anak tidak mau belajar karena ternyata kecanduan PSP..maka ada baeknya PSP diambil dulu..menerapakan kapan waktu untuk belajar dan kapan untuk bermain..

Kalo seorang balita susah makan (ini kasus anakku lagi nih..hehehe..) cek dulu apa mungkin karena dia udah kekenyangan karena susu…yang artinya porsi susunya harus dikurangin, agar dia mau makan.

Kalo seorang anak inginnya dilayanin melulu…maka intropeksi apakah ortu yang membiasakan hal itu terjadi.. Kalo seorang balita inginnya digendong terus, mungkin karena dibiasakan sedikit-sedikit digendong.

Sedikit pengalaman pribadi dari aku…
Dulu ketika aku baru melahirkan, karena situasi saat itu papanya Alex di Surabaya sementara aku di Malang..lalu mamaku sudah meninggal, sementara mama mertua tinggal di kota lain..Aku bener2 harus merawat Alex sendiri. Nenekku sudah terlalu sepuh untuk merawat bayi, papaku baru keluar dari rumah sakit karena serangan jantung, sementara adik2ku harus kuliah,dsb (2,5 bulan pertama belum ada baby sitternya Alex)…Jadi…ayahku menyarankan agar Alex jangan dibiasain digendong..harus dibiasain tahu bedanya siang dan malam…

Yach waktu itu, namanya anak pertama, bawaannya pengen ngegendong mulu..tapi aku tahan diri..selama alex tidak nangis histeris, biasanya dia tetap di tempat tidurnya, sambil kutepuk-tepuk doang (kecuali saat nyusu/jemur pagi sih..)…Nah, dari situ kebiasaan itu memang terbawa kale ya ampe sekarang..Alex paling ogah kalo digendong, kecuali kalo dia lagi ngerasa sakit banget atau cuapek banget…(hehehe..padahal skg mamanya pengen banget ngegendong, anaknya yang ga mau :p)

Apa tindakanku itu benar?
Nggak tau juga sih :p Aku masih belajar untuk menjadi ortu…
Tapi kalo yang kuamati..sisi positifnya dari hal sepele itu adalah anakku lebih mandiri..terbiasa sendiri kali ya..
Hanya saja sisi negatifnya mungkin Alex merasa insecure, sehingga kadang kalo bertemu orang baru/di tempat baru..dia akan menarik diri…(ini yang lagi dipupuk terus ama aku en suami, agar Alex merasa secure..aman..)

Lalu ketika ada baby sitternya, Alex di disiplinkan untuk waktu tidur dan makannya (walo ga sedisiplin sepupuku, Ayako yang orang Jepang..) alhasil sekarang dia dah tau sendiri kalo pulang sekolah waktunya bobok..jam 9 malem waktunya bobok, dsb (walo untuk maem masih mood2an :p harus diselimurin dulu..hehehe..)

Lalu contoh dari teman sebaya itu juga sangat besar pengaruhnya..jangankan untuk anak yang remaja…untuk anak batita seperti Alex saja, hal itu terjadi…Nah,kalo dah gini hanya ortu yang bisa membanu anak untuk tau yang baek dan tidak
Misalnya suatu hari, dia melihat ada temennya yang merengek minta sesuatu sampe nangis kenceng2…besoknya dia akan minta dengan cara yang sama. Jadi biasanya sebelum kejadian Alex niru, kalo pas kejadian itu terjadi di depanku, aku langsung tanya Alex”Lex, napa si X nangis?” en “Kalo teriak2 kayak gitu jelek ya Lex..khan dah besar..”. Nah dari situ biasanya dia tau kalo kejadian seperti itu tidak baek untuk dilakuin Atau pas liat temennya ngelemparin kucing, dia akan ikut2an..Biasanya dia akan langsung dipanggil ama papanya en ditanyain “kalo Alex dilempar batu, sakit nggak..?” “Nah, kalo kucingnya dilempar batu, khan sakit..khan kasian..” (suamiku biasanya suka simulasi langsung sih..aku ingat dulu pas Alex masih belum ada setahun..untuk ngenalin konsep panas dan bahayanya kompor…ama suamiku tangannya bener2 dideketin ke kompor..hehehe..en aku cuman bisa melongo sangking kagetnya..:p)

Sampai sekarang, aku ngerasa masih banyak aja yang belum kuketahui untuk jadi orang tua…Aku masih harus banyak belajar..baek sebagai orang tua maupun sebagai guru…
Seringkali aku ga tau apa yang kudu dilakuin, jadi kalo temen2 ada masukan/ide buat mendidik anak..please share ya…

UAN...apa sudah merupakan assessment terbaik???

Kemarin pagi iyuk (PRT di rumah ayahku di malang) datang dengan mata bengkak...ketika memasakpun, aku liat dia terus menangis....Lalu aku tanya
"Ono opo, Yuk?" (Ada Apa Yuk?)
dan dia menjawab bahwa anak pertamanya tidak lulus UAN tingkat SMP.. Lalu dia melanjutkan dengan makin banyaknya berita di TV bahwa banyak anak yang coba bunuh diri karena ga lulus, dia takut anaknya juga akan melakukan hal yang sama....
Semenjak menerima pengumuman tersebut, katanya anaknya terus menerus menangis, tidak bisa tidur, tidak mau makan....
Dia juga merasa malu kepada ayahku yang selama ini membiayai uang sekolah anak-anaknya...ternyata anaknya tidak lulus...

Aku coba memahami perasaan si anak....Bayangkan seandainya anda lahir di sebuah keluarga yang tidak mampu, dengan ayah seorang penarik becak dan ibu Pembantu Rumah Tangga Part Time (dateng jam 6 pulang jam 9), anak pertama lagi..yang dijadikan tumpuan harapan...
satu-satunya cara keluar dari lingkaran kemiskinan dengan belajar dan sekolah..tapi ternyata harapannnya hilang...
Kata Bokapku, selama ini terima raportnya itu anak, sebetulnya dia juga bukan anak yang "bodoh" atau bermasalah...Ya,biasalah anak cewek bahkan tergolong rajin (hehehe...girls rule..:p)

Nah disini aku bener-bener ga setujunya dengan UAN...apakah hasil belajar 3 tahun tersebut bisa hilang begitu saja hanya karena ujian yang dilakukan selama 4 hari?
Apakah UAN ,masih relevan untuk dijadikan satu-satunya acuan kelulusan?

DON'T GET ME WRONG...
Aku sepakat bahwa perlu ada standar khusus(ujian) yang bertaraf nasional untuk menjaga mutu pendidikan negri ini...(Ngapain belajar kalo ga ada assessmentnya, right?)
Jadi tentang pelaksanaan UAN, aku setuju-setuju aja, malah aku merasa perlu hal itu... Sebagai seorang pendidik, aku juga ingin anak-anak (muridku) memiliki suatu assessment tentang apa yang sudah mereka pelajari, biar mereka merasa tertantang dan juga bisa sebagai refleksi diri...

Tetapi ketika hanya UAN yang dijadikan satu-satunya syarat kelulusan...
menurutku hal itu akan membuat anak-anak bangsa ini selalu berorientasi pada hasil dan bukan prosesnya...
mereka akan menghalkan segala cara untuk berhasil...
Aku sudah pernah tulis disini,
Bagi yang berduit, mungkin bisa beli jawaban (entah bener ato nggak..) Bagi yang tidak berduit, berusaha "kreatif" untuk berlaku curang" ..Hal ini bisa dilihat dari "fenomena" sekitar sebulan yang lalu dimana pemerintah akan mengadakan UAN Ulang karena sekolah tersebut ketahuan berlaku curang... (Personally, aku ga setuju dengan UAN Ulang..Seharusnya mereka khan tidak lulus, ya harus pake Kejar Paket donk...biar adil juga dengan anak2 lain yang memang tidak lulus..Let them have their concequences...Itu menurutku..)
Katanya Indonesia mau berubah..kalo terus dididik gitu ya kapan berubahnya donk...*sigh*

Anyway...mungkin akan lebih baik jika UAN tersebut menjadi salah satu penilaian kelulusan tetapi bukan keputusan mutlak...apa yang dipelajari oleh seorang anak selama mereka sekolah juga harusnya ikut diperhitungkan donk....

Kalo emang hasil UAN-nya jeblok, dan emang kesehariannya ketika sekolah juga ga niat atau tidak bisa...Ya udah berarti emang tuh anak ga niat sekolah dan pantas ga lulus...

Tetapi ketika UAN-nya jeblok, padahal sehari-hari dia adalah anak yang rajin dan pintar, apakah dia pantas tidak lulus? Lalu kerja kerasnya selama 3 tahun buat apa…

Begitu pula sebaliknya, kalo sehari-hari dia sekolahnya tidak niat atau tidak bisa ngikutin, tiba-tiba nilai UAN nya bagus banget (entah karena luck ato God’s miracle ato…..) apakah dia pantas lulus? For me that would be a big question mark…How come he/she did that…

Semoga ini bisa jadi salah satu PR untuk presiden mendatang (whoever it will be…) Bagaimana untuk bisa menciptakan system pembelajaran yang lebih baik untuk generasi selanjutnya…
Kalo ada temen-temen punya ide/pendapat yang lain…tolong sharing….Makasi…

UPDATED NEWS

Babysitternya Alex baru dateng dari kampung en dia cerita kalo salah seorang keponakannnya, mati bunuh diri dengan minum potas, karena TIDAK LULUS UAN SMP...Sekarang neneknya menjadi orang linglung dan stress, karena cucunya tersebut adalah cucu pertama yang dia rawat sendiri dari kecil...

Semoga tidak ada lagi kabar menyedihkan seperti ini :(

Cerita tentang Seorang Guru Senior...Mohon bantuan Doa-nya...

Maaf teman-teman..hari ini aku akan posting sesuatu yang kopas (kopi paste bo..) - walo itu against norma blogger- Tulisan ini dari rekanku di sekolah, Ms. Jenny...
Karena aku juga mengenal sosok ibu yang diceritakan di sini...Beliau-lah yang menginspirasi salah satu postingan-ku tentang waktu... Betapa aku merasa aku belum memaksimalkan waktuku, jika aku melihat ibu ini...
Cerita selengkapnya silahkan temen-temen baca tulisan Ms. Jenny berikut...
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Dear friends,Aku mau curhat tentang seorang ibu, yang menjadi guru, usia ibu ini sudah cukup tua yaitu 68 thn, usia di mana si ibu seharusnya pensiun dan menikmati usia tuanya.
Tetapi keadaan berkata lain...si ibu ini harus tetap bekerja dan mencari nafkah buat keluarganya krn beliau satu2nya tulang punggung keluarga-suaminya sakit2an dan beberapa kali kena stroke.

Beliau adalah seorang guru yang kreatif dan rajin...selain mengajar, si ibu juga aktif di ibu2 PKK di RT-nya dan menerima jahitan sebagai side jobnya. Setiap hari si ibu harus bangun subuh utk menyiapkan makanan dan membersihkan rumah baru kmd berangkat kerja...seplg kerja beliau msh harus memasak utk makan malam dan melanjutkan jahitan yang belum selesai hingga larut malam...setiap hari hny bisa tidur 4-5jam...hebatnya si Ibu tidak pernah mengeluh...beliau selalu bersyukur...

Saat ini si ibu ini mengalami sakit karena rahimnya turun dan mendesak ginjalnya dan rahimnya keluar, sehingga dia kesakitan saat harus bekerja, duduk ataupun berjalan...tapi beliau tidak mengeluh sedikit pun...beliau bahkan berkata kepadaku, "ya semua ini hrs diterima, masakan kita hanya mau menerima yang baik saja?"

Hatiku menangis mendengar perkataan beliau yang mengingatkanku bhw kita hrs tetap brsyukur.Teman2, aku paksa si Ibu utk berobat ke dokter kandungan dan dokter berkata bhw beliau hrs dioperasi - itu jalan satu2nya.
Dokter sdh melakukan pemeriksaan darah dan jantung dsb dan hasilnya bagus dan operasi hrs dilakukan hari Selasa depan. Si Ibu bilang beliau tidak punya cukup dana utk operasi, dana yang ada hny 2 juta, sementara biaya operasi sj 12jt, blm termasuk obat dan perawatan setlhnya.

Teman2, aku cerita ini utk mengetuk hati kita semua utk bisa membantu operasi si Ibu ini, bantuan bisa berupa doa maupun uang. Inilah saatnya kita menunjukkan kepedulian kita thd sesama. Mari kita bantu beliau spy beliau bisa beraktiivitas kembali dan kehidupan keluarganya bisa kembali pulih.Bagi yang berminat membantu dana, bisa beritahu aku via email or sms dan aku akan beritahu no rekening beliau spy kalian bisa transfer.

Aku atas nama beliau mengucapkan terima kasih atas bantuan doa, perhatian dan dana dari teman2 semua.God bless her and all of us.
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Beliau adalah seseorang guru dengan dedikasi tinggi dan daya kreativitas yang tak pernah habis...
Aku selalu terkagum-kagum bagaimana melihat beliau dapat menciptakan barang-barang cantik dari barang-barang bekas...
Bagaimana ditengah tugas dan pekerjaan yang menumpuk, beliau masih sempat membuatkanku, dan suami serta anakku baju...
Semoga beliau diberikan kesembuhan secepatnya...Amien

BUSY TIME FOR TEACHERS :(

These weeks are the busiest weeks for teachers....TIME TO INPUTING SCORE....

Two weeks from now the Cita Hati Senior School Students will receive their mid-semester report, that's mean this week is the latest time to input score and comment....Aduh...aku harus begadang deh malam ini...koreksian masih menumpuk (How I hate my last minute habbit now :< )

Come on Rila...Fight..Fight.... :p

BLACKBERRY....

Blackberry...hmmm...small gadget with huge function...

Last time when I went to Jakarta, my business partner suggest me to buy it so we can communicate easier and effectively....

"HA..AH...BLACKBERRY, MAS??" "Ga usah deh..." that's my reply at that time. "Banyak yang masih urgent buat sekarang..."

I have a principle that I'm not a gadget mania...I choose an item based on it function and not because it is a trend....And I think for now, I don't need blacberry yet.... I have my handphone (although without special fiture) and PGD's laptop that enable me to connect with internet...So, it' enough for me now.

But, today at school...O M G... I saw blackberry everywhere...my students bring it as if it just an ordinary item, something that can easily get by them...hiks-hiks-hiks berarti gurunya yang kuper kali ya...ga mau blackberry. Aduh, ga habis pikir...buat apa gitu ya blackberry-nya mereka..ckckck...Browsing buat tugas sekolah khan juga ga segitunya....ckckck....

ALEX @ SCHOOL (Part III)

At my last post about Alex...I was so confused of him, because it seems that he don't like to be at school...

So right now, I want to write down the newest update about it...

Thanks GOD, after almost 2 weeks, his father and I take turn to drop him or pick him up from school...he seems become more confidence at school.

He never cry again when he saw his uniform. He never cry again during lesson at school...Thank God. Even last friday..he wanted to go to school earlier :) And whenever he came back from school, he can told us (me and his papa) what happend at school... (although some of it quite hard to be understand because he didn't pronounce it correctly...but at least from his enthusiasm, I know that he is happy at school..)

ALEX AT SCHOOL (Part II), Please give me advise

If last month, I've wrote how Alex is doing well in is school, now I want to wrote again about it...
For 2 weeks, Alex was okay with the school, he enjoyed it so much. It shown by his answer whenever I asked him about his school. He able to explain the material that is being taught at school. He able to draw "kelkel" (translation :circle), kuer (translation :square) and sometime proudly showed the stamp that he had in his hand because being good at school. After 2 days at school, the baby sitter already left him alone  in class, but it seems okay with him.

But that is different now. Lately he don't want to go to school. Only by seeing his uniform, can make him cry histerically. And it's getting worse when he arrive at school. He will refuse to enter the class. He cries everytime at school..(And God knows how loud Alex can cry ..hehehe...). Now everyone in Buah Hati know Alex...the boy how cry so loud..ckckck...

I confuse what should I do?
Ms. Risa suggest that probably Alex needs more time with his parents at school.
So I followed her suggestion.
But the school has strict regulation that every students allowed to be accompanied by their parents only at their first month.
Alex doesn't have this problems at his first month, he-infact-able to adapt well during his first month, but now.....

Parents out there..what did you do in your kids first day at school?

As a teacher, I always advice my students parents...but know dealing with my own son and I haven't got any clue what should I do....
Or what makes him "hates" school (ketakutan lebih tepatnya...terrifiying more likely...)
Is it too early for him to be at school? (my son is 2 years old)
Is it because he is the only child (for now)?

Right now, me and my husband always take Alex to school ourselves. But because my husband has work in shift, so lately I become more often to ask permission from school to take Alex at his school. I swop my teaching hours to another period after Alex's school hour.
At home, my husband and I play role play like in a school..Hopefully it can make him for comfortable.
And I pray that Alex can enjoying his school again soon..God, please help him...

PPR Seminar

Last Saturday, February 7th, the school sent me to attend a seminar which held in SMA Petra 1
Well, having a seminar full day on Saturday, away from my baby would not be my best plan :p
But the assignment letter has came...
Pradigm Pedagogy Refelection is the title
And...

I felt grateful because they made me attend that seminar...
It's a great seminar (except one part in the prelude-introduction- that makes me felt like in a catholic church instead of in a seminar...hahaha....a person in front of me felt a sleep..hehehe...)

Anyway in that seminar, there are some values that I get...
1. It brings back my motivation to teach.....
Sometime I felt discourage by seeing the phenomenon at school around Indonesia...A kid values the result more than the process...They willingly to do everything to passed National Exam..
For those who came from lower-middle financial background, some of them feel it's okay to cheat between them...
For those who came from upper-middle financial background, some of them feel it's okay to buy the answers or the questions.
Probably I will get problems by posting it, but that's the reality...
And that makes me qustioning my self..what's the purpose of me being a teacher, if actually they can pass it themself without teacher...
But as people said..better light up a match against the darkness than doing nothing...

So here I am..try to light up my matches (which hopefully can light up some candle also soon...atau obor sekalian biar lebih terang :p). I'll do my best as a teacher, which in the process...hopefully I could inspire the others (my kids, my students especially) to build a beter world..to make a better nation..
Hehehe..Am I hoping too much? Am I nuts? hahaha...who knows....

2. I amaze of Pak Kartono dan Pak Katino who have high dedication on teaching and also high dedication of heir students. I salute them. Despite the lack of facility, they able to make great breakthrough, great inovation on learning.
The happiness and willingness of the kids to gain the knowledges is their main concern.
How to make a kids loves their subject.
And how to make the process is fun and meaningful, so the kids will not only concern about the result but they gain some values that timeless

3. That is not only the knowledge of the subject that needs to be taught to a kid, but the most important is how to teach them able to make reflection of themselves.
How the students will able to empathize andbuild their sympathy about what happend in their surrounding..in their world...

4. The things that I also get is about the value it self... Although it's based on Christianity prespective, but actually it's a world wide values...
The values that I thing all people aware of it, but decreasing this time. They are honesty (kejujuran), brotherhood (persaudaraan), and teamwork (kerjasama), respect
At Pak Katino's school 90% of the students is not Catholic or Christian(although it is a Catholic foundation), and it doesn't  mean that they want to make their students to be Catholic...
They just want they kids to love learning, to get and implement the values in their life. To be a better person.
And I thing their values is a common values and still good values for our life.

I, indeed still have a lot to learn....
I'm still learning to be a teacher, still learning to be a good mother, still learning to be a good wife, still learning to be a good sister, still learning to be a good friend, still learning to build my business,  still learning to learn a lot of thing...
I just wish to have enough time to learn all of that. Amien. :)

A great teacher story

Okay I will tell you a story about Mrs. Thompson ….

It’s taken from www.makeadifferencemovie.com

(but some of it I add it with my own words because I can not find the full version of it..The one in italic is my own memories about it..)

Mrs. Thompson is a teacher

And like most teachers, she looked at her students

She said that she loved them all the same

However that was impossible because there in front row slumped in his seat..

Was a little boy named Teddy Stallard

And Teddy could be unpleasant

It got to the point where Miss Thompson would actually take delight in marking his paper with a broad red pen, making bold “X” and then putting a big F on the top of his papers

At the school where Miss Thompson taught, she was required to review each child past records, and she put Teddy’s off until the last

However when she reviews his file, she was in for a surprise

His first grade teacher wrote that “Teddy is a brilliant student, good at class and he pleasant to be with. His friends love him”

His second grade teacher wrote that “Teddy is a pleasant boy and his friends like to be with him, but recently his mother got a deathly illness”

His third grade teachers wrote “ His mother death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best but his father doesn’t show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren’t taken”

His fourth grade teacher wrote “Teddy withdrawals himself from the society. He don’t have anymore friend to be with and his academic slowly begun to decreased”

By now Miss Thompson has realize the problems and she feels ashamed of herself

She felt even worst when her students brought her a Christmas presents and wrapped with beautiful ribbons and bright papers, except Teddy’s

His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy brown paper that he got from the grocery bag.

Miss Thompson took pain to open it in the middle of the other present

Some of the students started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stone missing and a bottle that was one quarter full of perfume

But she stifled the children laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was, put it on and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist.

Teddy stayed after school that day, just long enough to say “Miss Thompson today you smell just like my mom used to”

After the children left, she cried for at least an hour

On that very day, she quit teaching writing, reading and arithmetic

Instead, she begin to teach children

Miss Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy

As she worked with him, his mind begin to come life

The more she encourage him the faster he responded

By the end of the year Teddy begin to be one of the smartest children at class

Despite the lie that she all students the same,

Teddy becomes one of her “teacher’s pet”

The story does not end here…

(But I make it short…it just every year or two…Teddy will write a letter to Miss Thompson to tell her about himself at that time and stated that Miss Thompson is the best teacher he ever know…He is a doctor then)

16 years later…

A letter come..

Teddy said that he met this girl and was going to be married and he was wondering that Miss Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in a place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom….. (his father died couple years before that day...)

And she wore that bracelet the one with some rhinestone missing

Moreover she made sure that she wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together

“Thank you Miss Thompson for believing in me.Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference”

Miss Thompson with tears in her eyes whispered back “Teddy you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I can make a difference. I don’t know how to teach until I met you”

I wish I could be someone like Ms Thompson..someone that inspire....Amien

Quote

I got this from the training..

And it quite strengthens me to do my job when I have low motivation and feel headache like now…

And now I want to share it with you all….

It’s from von Gothe..

I have come to frightening conclusion…

I am the decisive element in the classroom

It is my personal approach that creates the climate

It is my daily mood that makes the weather

As a teacher I possess tremendous

To make a child’s life miserable or joyous

I can be a tool of torture

Or an instrument of inspiration

I can humiliate or humor

Hurt or heal

In all situation

It is my response that decides whether

A crisis will be escalated or de-escalated

And a child humanized or dehumanized

Poem competition

Next month there’s a language month at Cita Hati…There gonna be a lot of activities… comedy drama, poem competition etc. And for the poem competition not only the students that should submit the poems but also the Pastoral Teacher of that class….

So as an interlude for that competition, I’ll show you some poems that I make for it as a 7 Pre IB 1 member... Give me comment to make it better, would u....

ALEX

Anakku tersayang

Tingkah lakumu khan selalu terkenang

Dalam angan yang Tak pernah Lekang

Chubby cheeks peek on a pillow

Brightly eyes and smiley face that follow

Always able to ease my sorrow

Kanugrahan Gusti teng dunya

Ageng Katresnanipun marang kula

Putro kang kados dijogo

FRIENDSHIP

Tak terasa waktu tlah berjalan

Jarak menjadi penghadang

Namun kau khan selalu di hati

Sesuatu yang sangat berarti

We had many memories together

Had some problems at each other

But that’s will not bother

‘Coz our friendship will last forever

What do you think....???
I want to make one more poem about mama....
So Papa can publish it also at his book on mama's 1000 days memories (a tradition for javanesse to have ceremony and pray at 1000 days after someone passed away...)
Give me some input to make it better, okay...
Thank you....

Percobaan Donat terawet

This email has made me conduct an experiment with my science club students...
And the result will be publish soon :)

Just forward from other milis, need to check and recheck...

Ta'jil ramadlan?

BE CAREFULL

Karena saya dijawil-jawil, terpaksa deh simpanan saya yang sedianya akan saya publikasikan November depan, saya publikasikan sekarang: percobaan donat terawet!!!Sebenarny a percobaan donat saya asal mulanya tidak sengaja. Suatu saat istri saya membelikan donat Dunkin buat anak saya yang TK. Ditaruh di meja makan, masih dalam kantong kertas Dunkin, terus lupa dimakan. Kira-kira seminggu kemudian baru donat ini ‘ditemukan’ lagi.
Yang mengejutkan adalah donatnya masih utuh, tidak berjamur, glaze/gulanya juga masih cantik, hanya rotinya sedikit lebih keras meski masih bisa digigit/dikunyah. Sejak itu tiap kali ada donat gratisan atau dekat-dekat toko donat saya menyisakan 1/membeli 1 untuk percobaan.Metoda percobaannya juga sederhana, tidak ilmiah benar:
- donat diambil dari kemasan asli, saya masukkan ke kantong plastik bekas label Tom & Jerry
- kantong dilipat tidak distaple (udara masih bocor, memberi kesempatan busuk)
- kemudian saya beri label tanggal perolehan donat
- saya biarkan di kabinet kerja saya di ruang terbuka, tidak disimpan khusus di kulkas
- ruangan kantor pada jam kerja berpendingin, lewat jam kerja, sabtu & minggu tanpa pendingin ruangan
- sesekali ditengok dan dipotret.Terlampir foto donat, keadaan terakhir.Berikut beberapa hal mengejutkan yang saya peroleh, urut berdasarkan awetnya.

1. Donat JCo, dibeli 26 Nov 2007 sampai sekarang masih empuk dan tidak berjamur. Glaze (taburan gula) di atasnya sudah lumer lama tapi penampilan masih tetap oke. Kalau saja saya tega memberikan donat ini pada anak jalanan, pasti kemakan, wong bentuk dan tekstur masih donat koq.

2. Donat Dunkin, dibeli 26 Nov 2007 sampai sekarang tidak berjamur dan hanya berubah agak keras. Glaze (gula) warna merah jambunya sudah menempel di plastik, tapi rotinya masih empuk membal. Yang berpengalaman makan donat tahu bahwa ini donat sudah beberapa hari, tapi siapa sangka sudah 9 bulan.

3. Donat Country Style saya peroleh 19 Nov 2007 sampai sekarang tidak berjamur, berubah keras sekali. Glazenya masih tetap cantik tapi karena keras, tidak bisa digigit.

4. Donat Q-Biq perolehan 13 Jun 2008, rusak glazenya dan muncul jamur pada rotinya dalam jangka kurang dari 1 minggu Meskipun masih berbentuk segi 4 (sesuai identitas q-biq) tapi dari penampilan yang rusak dan berjamur, sudah tidak layak makan. Yang mengherankan, meski berjamur, donat ini tidak habis dimakan jamurnya (lihat no. 6 di bawah).

5. Donat iCrave, perolehan 22 Jan 2008, rusak glaze dan rotinya berjamur dalam 2 (atau 3 hari). Selain berjamur, juga timbul bau yang tidak sedap bukti proses pembusukan. Beda dengan Q-Biq yang berjamur tapi rotinya masih relatif berbentuk kotak, roti donat iCrave juga mulai hancur meski tidak semuanya hancur.

6. Donat kentang Fresco, beli 24 Feb 2008, hancur lebur dalam 2 hari. Dalam 1 minggu massa yang tersisa dari donat ini sangat sedikit, plastiknya melepes. Ini donat yang dijual di ITC BSD di kedai kecil-kecil seputar food court. Harganyapun paling murah, kalau tidak salah rp 3000 / buah dan pilihannya cuma 1 macam itu.

Yang belum saya coba karena beberapa alasan (belum ada yang memberi / tempatnya jauh / belum nemu tokonya) diantaranya donat Krispy Kreme, donat Jesslyn Cake, American Donut dll dari toko roti lain.

Catatan: saya tidak kenal dengan satupun dengan pemilik/pegawai diantara merk donat yang saya sebutkan di atas, juga saya tidak punya masalah/dendam dengan salah satu pemilik merk diatas. Jadi percobaan ini murni didasari keingintahuan dipicu dari donat Dunkin yang awet seminggu. Kenyataannya ternyata Dunkin ada temannya, malah ada yang lebih hebat.

Setiap kali ada penambahan donat, saya buat fotonya + koran Kompas edisi hari itu, supaya ada bukti. Foto yang saya lampirkan ini adalah foto terbaru. Sampai saat ini sampel donat ini belum saya buang.

Ada salah seorang teman dari salah satu kontraktor di kantor yang mengikuti percobaan saya dari awal, dan tertarik juga melihat kenyataan donat awet ini. Dia memuatnya di http://veganlion13. blogspot. com/2008/ 08/dognuts. html

Gerai donat iCrave di Pacific Place tempat saya membeli sampel ini sudah berbulan-bulan tutup. Saya tidak tahu apakah donat merk Fresco masih ada di ITC. Tapi adalah menyedihkan bahwa donat yang termasuk bagus (berjamur dengan cepat) ternyata tokonya juga cepat gulung tikar.

Adakah yang bisa menerangkan kenapa JCo bisa awet empuk begitu? Pelajaran apa yang bisa ditarik?

Regards,

Aris_MP
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Why am I being a TEACHER?

I often heard someone asked me..

“why do you want to be a teacher?” I know some of my best friend thing that I was not serious to take it as a career….

“Why do you need to study engineering if it turns out you are only teach kids..??”..

Okay, to answer that question,
I will need to tell you from the beginning….

I was graduated from ITS on March
2004, and only 5 days from my graduation, I was called to work as a consultant
(ISO 9001 Consultant…) And I enjoyed work as a consultant.. It’s never boring,
we have to learn many things at once, we have to be able to adapt with whatever
the circumstances there are. For example : If I go to tobacco company today,
means yesterday, I already prepare with its process, document, etc. And if the next day I go to food manufacturing, then I will need to study and prepare for it…
It was fun, I got many experiences, and sometime even the owner of the company told us how to build a business (usually during lunch chat…) So, the work is fun…

BUT….

When I see my supervisor.. she needs to leave her child (baby
child..) for days because one of our client is in Jember and they will have
assessment… I start to think that this job is not for me…I mean it’s okay when
I’m still single (coz I love to travel..) but I can’t imagine to leave my baby
for a long term…..So, I RESIGN…in a sudden until my boss wondering because
actually I seems enjoyed my work and she pleased with my work….

After that, for several months, I try to manage Phitagoras (my consultant company with some of my partner…Mbak Riris at that time, and Mas Indra join not long after that..) At that time, I still love to be a consultant but I also prepare for the next future, when I have family of my own…so, I prepare something that can give me passive income in the future..(Hopefully.. so help me God..) Instead of spending my time for someone else company, it would be better I struggle for my own…That’s my thought….

So…I’m quite proud of it…Starting only with Rp. 75000,-/each, we (me, mbak ris, yoyo and dhipik) made name card and other publication…. And thank’s GOD, 4 months after I resign, Phitagoras are registered as PT (Perseroan Terbatas..)
actually thanks to Mas Indra who joined not long before that and persist to
make it legal (Me and mbak Ris against it at first….hehehe…Yoyo and Dhipik
no longer with us…)

Then when do I think to be a teacher?

At that time, I was joining one
of the training at WISMA SIER for Forkom SIER as a representative from
Phitagoras. And at that time the training mention that why Indonesia become “like this” because the kids at school are teach with the same methodologies and making the same stereotype… So actually if we want to build a nation start to teach the younger generation a creative way of learning.. and start to build their awareness about their nation. Mostly it’s all can be done at school…

Hmmmm..than I started to think… I usually train adults…why don’t a
teach young kids…Try to make a big impact in the future….Hmmm….

At that time I’m still not sure yet…

Yach because it’s public secret that teachers’ salary are not big.. :p

But I start to think a teacher as an option of my job….

At that time mbak Ris already at Aneka Rupa Tera and I want to get another job. Mas Indra is the only one from the owner that full time in Phitagoras…And I thank you so much mas…Phitagoras can be as big as now..because of you…. Beyond what I ever dream before

So I start to find jobs that I liked.. And I let it flow…I don’t have specific requirement.. I surrender it to God… And finally at that time I had several test and interview… The one that I remember the most is from Cita Hati and Surabaya Plaza Hotel… Both of them call me at the same day and both of them accept me as their employee…. At first I’m very confused….As the Public Relation of Surabaya Plaza Hotel, they offer me more than 3 times salary than what Cita Hati offer as a teacher… WOW…

But then I discuss with Mas Ayok (my boyfriend at that time..not husband yet..) And he said that I should think about the responsibility and job desc also accept the salary… At hotel the salary is big but the working hour is almost 24 hours must stand by (if we have event)…then what’s the different when I’m still be a consultant….Even worst…

Hmmm….Make sense, I resign as a consultant because I want more time with my family… And also because that training at SIER that I remember always…

Then I decide to choose to be a teacher…

And Mrs Shinta (my principal at that time) even can make me to see a bigger vision than I had at that time… I know that it is a job for me…..

Mas Ayok ones asked me “Mau kerja di orang sampe kapan, Ma?”
(because he has a big dream to start his own business and no longer work for
someone.. )

I replied “Mama disekolah bukan cari kerja karena kerja di orang..tapi karena aku suka..jadi aku akan kerja selama aku masih suka disana..dan selama aku masih seneng ngajar..”

“Mama ga kepikiran punya sekolah sendiri”

“Tentu saja, Pa…salah satu mimpiku..goalku…bias bikin sekolah buat para
Anak jalanan dan Anak yang ga mampu…”

It’s seems impossible for now but I believe that nothing is impossible… (‘o’)v

So that’s about it…I like to teach…specially I like to see a kid struggle for his/her own life…

Everything if possible if they believe it….

And the one that can change their destiny is their own effort..

That’s what I want the kids to know…

Besides, by being a teacher…

I have many holidays to spent with Alex and Mayok…..hehehe (although Mas Ayok hard to find a leave..:( )

I still have time also to handle Mas Ayok's business and mine….

So may God strengthen me to do this job….

Amien...