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20 Agustus 2008

Teaching is not only teaching

After having dinner with my beloved wife this evening, I have an idea to write the small phenomenon about some problems faced by the teacher with their student in teaching learning process. It is started when I remembered what was happened in my class this morning. When I taught in the class, I found a student didn’t bring English book with him. I asked him why? He said that he had left his book in his house. He added that actually he had prepared it before departing to school. After some considerations such as it’s not for the first time for him to do such silly thing and I often noticed him not bringing book at all, I asked him standing outside the class. I was surprised when I saw that a senior teacher teaching next to my class did what I did. He asked about 10 students to stand outside because of not completing their work to resume one of the chapters in a subject related.

After doing that I checked my students’ attendance list. I got two students not attending class without any information. I had familiar with the track records of these students. They frequently made many cases in the school. They often smoked in the back of canteen secretly, not wearing complete uniform etc. Surprisingly, when I went home from teaching, I saw them sitting in the front of stall next to the school, wearing uniform. I questioned my self “ why didn’t they enter the class in the morning?”. I tried to call their class advisor. He answered that they didn’t give him any information.

Based on the story above, what should I do to my students? To be known that teacher should tell the students what’s wrong and what’s right. Teacher does not only give the material to the students and explaining the material of the subject. But the teacher also has to give norm values in order to make the students aware which one is better for them. So, I have planning to warn them not to do that again in the next time.

Next question is “ What about if they do that again in the next time? “. The answer is “It is different cases with different solution”.