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Is Our Teacher’s Ability Different?

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We often hear a teacher that said, “Do that section on your workbook and we will discuss it tomorrow!” We will directly do it when we understand the materials given. But, we will ignore that task when we are not clear with the materials explained by the teacher. Soon, we may think that “is that true if the teacher having their ability to teach us?”  Is that acceptable for us to grade the teacher based on their ability? Let’s find the answer together.

            First, teacher is a person that helps us to reach our success since in the school. They share their knowledge for us. We can say that our teacher is our guide to reach our success. Without the teacher, who will be the president of our beloved republic? Without him, who will be the ministers and other capable person who brings our country better? From the educational background side, the teacher is also prepared with the skills to handle their class and they have learned about the way how to communicate and share their knowledge to their students. They already learn those materials above since in the university. It means that they all having the same educational background. More, all of them are coming from the same college, for example Teacher Institute (in Bahasa Indonesia is known as IKIP), so they all have the same level of education and time to finish their study there. So, what’s make their ability different? Next, lets we analyze from the students side. Students usually like to learn specific subject, for example in Hard Science or Social Science. If they are not like with a lesson, they will think that they can’t understand to that lesson. It will build the paradigm on their mind, although the teacher of that lesson is able to explain the materials, they will not understand it. Finally, they will say that the teacher can’t explain it well. But, in the fact, it was not really happen.

            In the other hand, teacher’s ability is absolutely different because their task is also different. For example, if we compare a private teacher with the state teacher, they will be different. If a private teacher, he will get the salary based on their performance. But, for state teachers, they will be paid based on their region. Although they already prepared the best performance to share their knowledge, their salary will be the same with the same teacher that never share his knowledge. From then on, it will create a gap between private and state teacher. It will produce ‘a hierarchy of teacher’ based on their ability to teach. Yeah, the salary will lead and influence the ability of teacher to explain the material.

            In conclusion, actually all of the teacher have their own abilities to share their knowledge, but it’s depends on our interpretation on their way to teach and our attention to their lesson. Just respect and follow our teacher’s instruction carefully to reach our highest dream. 

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Diposkan oleh Achmad Januar Er Putra
Lokasi: Malang, Indonesia

Should We Do Our Homework?

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As students, we often hear this word when it comes to the end of academic semester. Yes, that is homework. All students from the earliest class of elementary school until the freshman before we continue to university, always get it everyday. We usually do it, but have we thought about homework benefits?
            All students who study in a formal learning institutional will agree with the statement that homework is useful for their study. Why? There are so many reasons which emphasize this statement. First, homework brings us to the learning atmosphere. By doing the homework given, directly we will open our hand book or module to seek for the suitable answer to the questions. We don’t realize that it will stimulate us to read and understand the material written in the book. Not only that, homework also can guide us to learn everyday. It will be a good way in learning, so that when we are about to face the exam, we will not learn only in a night before the exam day arrived.
            Thirdly, homework can be a good way for us to get the score. As we know, the teacher doesn’t take the score only from the quiz or daily exam but, they teacher also combines the exam score with the homework and psychomotor side.  So, if our score is not good enough in daily exam, homework will contribute in important part for our score. And, the score could motivate us to reach higher and higher. So, it can make us excited and motivated to love studying everyday.
            From the social side, homework can develop the student skills in their social. How can? It is simple. We know that often teacher asks us to do the homework in a group. So, it could shape and sharpen our social lives, such as are teamwork and our responsibilities to our group. The other positive side, it will make students far from the negative activities such as using the drugs and doing the free sex. It doesn’t mean that homework will kill the beautiful time of students to interact with their friends. But, homework will train the student to manage their time and use their time wisely based on the allocation they made. It will make them easier to take their decision and of course the success will come to them soon.
            At the end of the day, we will say that homework is absolutely useful for us because it can bring many better effects. Of course, as a student, our main duty is learning and studying. One of the ways to learn is by doing our homework. Let’s reach our success together.

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From the direct interview with Mr. Zamzam Mahardika, Physical Education Teacher. 

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Computer – is that need or want?

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Many people in this world usually use this device to help their work faster than using of manual stakeholders. There is an anomaly that the people are depending on computer. Is that issue correct? Lets we discuss it together.

Many people would speak that their works are depending on computer loudly. It could be analyzed from the daily activities that at least after we wake up in the morning, we would directly check our email through the computer. It just only for a small thing, but how if we see the reality at the office or school atmosphere? We can say that the office always use the computer to finish their work. The example is when they want to present their activities to get the tender; they always use the power-point slide to make everybody in that activity clearer. We’ve already got an example of computer usage in the institutional organization such as an office.
How about our daily life? Are we also depending on the computer? Of course, yes. We usually use the computer to help our activities easier. The real fact, for the students, we are having our homework everyday. Most of the homework are using computer to make the task has been fulfill before the deadline come. For example, we get the task to make a scientific paper consists at least 6 pages in two days. After we think wisely, absolutely we will choose to type it using computer. It will gives some benefits for them. The first, the paper will be finished faster. Then, it will looks more tidy compared with the handwriting. And, the students can find some more references by using the computer.

But, in the other paradigm, many people in this world also said that the computer is not our crucial needed. They will say that computer only a device that helps us to fulfill our job. Without computer, we can still do our daily activities normally. They will ask, are you bringing your computer or laptop even you are taking a bath? Computer only contribute in our working process, not more. For other process, we still use our manual force to finish that, such as washing and cooking. They also can add their ideas to say that computer will only bring some bad effects rather than the benefits. It would kill our social responsibilities and creativity.

From those ideas above, we could take an important point, which the people needed in computer are different based on their job and social status. And also, as a wise person, we could think and expect what will happen if we are too dependent on computer. Have a nice work!

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Should the Election Process be Complicated?

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Election process is said as the piece of ‘democracy’ cake. We are Indonesian, a country with democracy policies. Almost all of us may already be joined in one of election process to choose our representative to speak our condition. But, is our election process fair? Let we discuss it together.

            The first idea that might grow on our mind is saying absolutely yes. Of course, the process to elect our leader is arranged by the law. The rule said that our ways to choose them is based on the standard of LUBER JURDIL. L stands for Langsung (Directly choose), U stands for Umum (Universalities), BE stands for Bebas (Freedom), R stands for Rahasia (Secret), JUR stands for Jujur (Honesty), and DIL stands for Adil (Fairness). Those rules are written in the Books of Law of Republic of Indonesia. Next, the central government in Jakarta also was already build up a commission that has responsibilities to regulate and control the way of election process, namely Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) or Organization of General Election in English. This organization is running by some capable persons which come from the suitable background, for example one of them is majoring at Political Science graduates.
Furthermore, not only the Organization of General Election itself that works for the Election process, but also some other government and non-governmental organization. The police corps and some soldier from different level of battalion also work together to keep the condition safe and conducive, so that the fairness could be keep. From the non-governmental sector, there are several pressure groups such as LSM KONTRAS, the non-profit organization that concern to keep the election process fair.

In the other side, some people may speak that the election process especially in our beloved country, Indonesia is can’t be determined as the fair election process. Why? There are several reasons to emphasize that statement. The first, in our country, there are so many parties. As we know from the public news, the party that will participate at the next general election is about 40 parties. It’s okay that at first we accept the amount of the party, but how can they get much voice from the citizens to face the standard determined by the law? From that case, it will leads to the activities that we called ‘money’ politics. The party which gives money, that party that will be chosen by the citizens. Not only from the political side itself, we also know that the level of people who participate to elect is just about 65% (as the data comparison from Kompas 21 September 2012). If a party wins that election, could we say that the party is the representative of us? Is that fair for the people who are not choosing that party?

To sum up all of the problems above, we can’t say that the election process is absolutely fair. But, it depends on our perception to choose the right people that sit on the governmental place and our responsibilities. Let’s use our voice wisely!

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