Teacher and teaching

This morning I went to school after going home from traditional market. It was my daily activities before teaching in the school. When I wanted to enter my class my senior colleague said to me that he wanted to enter my class to give daily examination. He asked me to be a superintendent. I said ok. I entered my class then. Having read Al-Qur’an for about 15 minutes with my students in the class, I told them that they would have daily examination instead of studying English. I could see from their face that they were surprised since they had no preparation to answer the question. One of the students raised his hand proposing to me to have about 5 minutes to read the book. Because of limited time given, I decided to continue the activity. My senior colleague entered my class and distributed the question sheets to my students.

5 minutes passing smoothly when I noticed a students sitting in the back line acting something silly. He took a piece of paper in his drawer. I came closer to him making sure what’s happened. Surprisingly, I saw he brought his friend’s answer sheet. Spontaneously, I took the paper without any questions. I often noticed him doing a silly thing in the class. He frequently spoke abruptly as I explained the material in the class. He merely tried to attract his classmate attention. After convincing my self about what’s happened, I asked him to put his chair as a place to write the answers. I let him squatting.

Then I came closer to the owner of the paper. She was extremely nervous when I gave some questions about how the paper moved to the others. Since she could not give convincing answer, I wrote a note in her answer sheet that there was something trouble with her. Then I asked her to submit it by her self to related teacher.

Actually, all my students seem to be good student. When a certain student breaks the rule such as coming late and not bringing a book, they seem to be bothered. As a teacher I face difficulties in whether I continue my material or I postpone the class to handle the problem. Usually I let them to write “Istighfar” as many as possible based on the level of wrongness.

Again and again being a teacher is complicated. May everybody will understand what the teacher do is for the students beneficence.

How to be success in career

After discussing some problems about career in office with my friend this morning, I write this posting as the conclusion of the discussion. To be success in every side of our life is extremely expected by every body. Success won’t come spontaneously in our career without any struggle. The following ideas may be taken into consideration as a way to be success in our career.

1. Be punctual. If we want to succeed in our career, we must be discipline in time. Come on time or 15 minutes earlier to our office. It will give us a chance to prepare our work.


2. Be active. Try to ask an explanation to an unclear instruction. Consequently, by having lot of question, we will get lot of advantages. Don’t be afraid of asking question to the certain unclear instruction we do not know


3. Socialize with surroundings. It is important to have a good relationship with our partner in the office. They can help us to solve the problem as well when we have unsolved problem.


4. Be a friendly people. Try to spread our smile to every people around us.


5. Be confident. We can if we think we can. Show to all of people that we can handle the entire task given.


6. Make a list of priority. It will help you to finish our work on time.


7. Do what we can do right away. Don’t delay our work for we will have many things to do in the same time. Delaying our work is bad habit. So leave it.
   

Wish us success in our life. Amin....

MAN PRINGSEWU GALLERY

Hallo visitors…. In this posting I will show you the place where I teach my lovely students, spend my time to increase my professionalism and interact with my partner. After having some pictures taken from different side of MAN Pringsewu by my handphone, I will show it to all people around the world that MAN Pringsewu has an amazing magnificent views. Located in the top small hill in the coastal area of Pringsewu’s District, MAN Pringsewu deserve to be visited by you. It is not only its magnificent view you can see but also nice students and friendly teachers will greet you when you enter it.

This gate will greet you when you enter MAN Pringsewu. It is a new gate designed by a local architects. It was built about last 3 weeks to replace the old one. The futuristic design shows that MAN Pringsewu is ready to prepare a prospectus student to face a better future. Located on Fajar Agung street Pringsewu, MAN Pringsewu has strategic location. You can reach it by bus or motorcycle.

MAN Pringsewu office is in the first floor. Its small mosque is located in the second floor


If you want to read book, please go to our library. It is located next to Teachers office.


As I have told you before that MAN Pringsewu is located in the top of the hill, here you are the proofs……. And when you go to the top of the hill you will see the pictures below…….



It will be more amazing if you come to MAN Pringsewu in the morning. You will see the sun rising. It’s very amazing scenery…. and here you are my office with its condition and situation..

They are my lovely students. With them I learn English, discuss the material, have a fun and share the idea

Finally, see you in MAN Pringsewu

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”.

Being a Teacher = Colorful Job

My Personal Teaching Experience

I am a 28 years old English teacher in MAN Pringsewu. I have been teaching there for about 3.5 years. I have ever taught in some institutions e.g DCC Pringsewu and Celtics English course. Due to some considerations, I decide to focus my teaching activity in two institutions. At time being, I am also teaching in my almamater MA Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi. It’s about 40 km from my address. I should spend an hour to go there. Tracking mount hill road, surrounded by jungle. It is not about money or I have no job. It is based on my “calling soul”. Even though it is quite far I decide to teach there since it is my father inheritance.

Teaching in MAN Pringsewu possibly the place I can take many advantages. Besides doing my job as civil servant, I could increase my capability in English as well. As I have mentioned in the last posting that it is about two years I did not practice my English actively. Because of the job procedure it is compulsory for me to deepen my mastery in English. I try to give the best to my student by having a new method of teaching in the class. I want them to have a hope to me to come to their class everyday.

Many things happened when I teach in my class. Start from having fun together with my students up to giving punishment to “Naughty” one. Why I say like that?? As I have written in the title above “being a teacher = colorful job” I want to share my colorful experience in teaching. I had ever cried together with my students in the class when I gave the material to them. It happened when I gave the material about narrative text. I gave the story to them entitled The apple tree. After giving the generic structure of the text I explained to them about the moral message could be taken from the story. The story is a representation of a son and parent. I told my student that we as a son often came to our parent when we needed their help. But when we had a joy we forget them. While explaining it my students began crying and unconsciously my eyes full of tears as well (for complete story please open my related posting )

With the limited capability in English I keep trying to improve my mastery in English. Fortunately I have many friends whom I can discuss my problem in English with. I still keep in touch with my classmate in Lampung University to share my idea and search a new better one.

Fortunately, my institution frequently sends me to training, meeting and English Discussion where It can makes me familiar with English anymore. My sweet memory is when my institution sent me to 3 days English teacher training for MAN in MAN 1 Bandar Lampung in the beginning of August 2008. I was extremely surprised when the committee of the program mentioned my name in the front of all English teachers as the best participant in the training.

Beside that, even though I have only 3.5 years teaching experience, the government has invited me to join certification program for Teacher. Having some procedures I have to step such as completing porto folio documents, I must join 9 days training for passing this program. Thanks god… I could pass this hard training. Why I called it hard? Because I had no time to take rest during the training. All participants should involve actively in every session of the training. The participant should practice their teaching in the front of English teacher and qualified instructor.

From this posting, I try to find some inputs from the reader to a better teaching in my class and to improve my mastery in English. Please give me some comments related to the way of my writing and some useful suggestions.

One Side of My Life

" I am Lucky..."

That’s possibly the most appropriate phrase uttered to show many lucky things happened in my life. It was started when my father- H. Ma’ruf (the late)- gave me a name “Faizin” means “Lucky”. He added Muhammad in the front of it to show that I am a Muslim. I am the 8th Children in my family with 6 brothers and 2 sisters. All of my brothers and sisters graduated from Pondok Pesantren and I am lucky because I am the only son continued to University.

I had my Elementery school in Madrasah Ibtidaiyyah in My village. Finishing my study, my parents sent me to MTs Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi located about 10 Meters behind my house. 3 years studied in MTs Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi was the time when I had a colorful era because I started to explore my talent. I didn’t know why, I had a big curiosity in a new thing like art, vocal, sport, organization, English etc. Actually, after graduating from MTs I wanted to continue my study to Jawa but Madrasah Aliyah Al-Ma’ruf established then. So my father “forced” me to enter MA Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi as the 1st generation with only 6 students at that time.

That was possibly my hardest education era I’d to face since I had to study by having a limited facilities and teachers. Sometimes I had to study in a garage, mosque without table and chair. We had no fix lesson schedule in my class. If we had a class, my teacher searched us over there and over here. We rarely got full day learning. We had one or two subjects everyday. But now, MA Al-Ma’ruf has changed in to one of the famous Schools in my region.

I said to my self “Don’t give up…. I can If I think I can”. So, after graduating from Madrasah Aliyah, I wanted to show that I could continue my study to an outstanding university in Lampung. My father supported me to continue my study to one of university in Lampung. I chose “Lampung University”.

At that time, Lampung University was the main target of senior highs student graduate to continue their study. With more than 12.000 applicants I had to compete with I chose English Department as my 1st major and Bahasa Indonesia as the 2nd one. Even though I was the first generation of my School with only 6 classmates, I am lucky, I was accepted as Lampung university students in English Department on 1997. I had to compete with many brilliant students from favorite Senior High School in Lampung. With a limited talent in English, I tried to pass my study. I had many new kind friends in my class. I had many professional lecturers as well as many facilities provided by my university. It was quite far different to my study in MA Al-Ma’ruf.

The first year in Lampung University was the hardest era in my college because I had to be familiar with English. My lecturer didn’t notice me because there were many students had well mastery in English. But, in the second year they started noticing me because I tried to give my opinion whenever the lecturer asked us about something. When I studied, I lived in a special boarding house provided by Lampung University namely “Asrama Raja Basa” it had very complete facilities. I am lucky staying in it because it’s free and I could help my parent minimizing the budget for my study as well. Time went by, I could finish my study in Lampung university for about 5 years. Then I am lucky because my family allowed me to continue my study to Jawa in Pondok Pesantren Tegalrejo Magelang for three months and Hidayatul Mubtadiin Purworejo for two years. In Jawa, I didn’t really focus in learning because I had a part job as a graphic designer. My institution had a special part to support financial problem to develop our institution by having a Calendar Publisher. It had big customer from around Jawa Island with more than 150.000 exemplar/ year. I am lucky there, because I found my new talent in computer especially in graphic design. After two years adventure, I went back to my motherland since I had said that I would stay there not for long period. As I went back to my village, Religion Department opened new civil servant test. There were 2 English teachers needed during the test. Actually I would not apply my application because I rarely practiced my English for long time. It was my oldest brother supported me to apply for that. He said that I must join it because I had a good opportunity to be accepted. After that, I applied my application, following many procedures from completing the requirements up to joining written test. It was not easy accepted as a civil servant. One of my friends had tried applying an application to be a civil servant more than 12 times and he failed..!!! I had to compete with many seniors of mine from Lampung University. I am lucky because it was the first time for me to apply to be a civil servant and I passed it….. Praise to Allah..!!!. Not only accepted as a civil servant that made me delighted but the placement of my office also made me happy. I am lucky because the government put me in MAN Pringsewu. It was located not far from my village…

To sum up, It is only a simple example for us that LUCKY plays an important rule in our life….everybody has one side of his/her life that he/she doesn’t know. Thanks to every part of my life that supports me till I can survive up to now. Every thing is back to Alloh……

Connect Internet via Bluetooth

Secara garis besar, langkah2 untuk connect internet via bluetooth modem adalah sbb :

1. Pairing device/hp dengan PC/laptop.
2. Detect modem. Jika HP-nya support bluetooth modem, maka di PC bisa diliat ci Control Panel –> Phone and Modem Options –> Tab Modem : akan muncul modem bluetooth.
3. Test modem. Pada Tab Modem di atas, klik modem yg akan di-test. Klik Propertie, kemudian query modem.
4. Jika modem terhubung, akan ada respon dari modem.
5. Klik Advanced modem Setting. Pada isian Extra initialization command, isi dengan : +CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”APN_name”#catatan : APN_name diganti dengan APN masing-2 operator, misal untuk IM3/Mentari, ganti APN_name dengan indosatgprs, sehingga extra initialization command menjadi : +CGDCONT=1,”IP,”indosatgprs”
6. Buat dial-up connection. Klik Control Panel –> Network Connection –> Network Connection Wizard. Pada isian user name dan password ngikutin operator masing-2, untuk indosat, username dan password : indosatPilih modem untuk koneksi dengan modem bluetooth yang tadi disetting (ingat nomor port COM-nya). Untuk nomor dial-up adalah : *99#

Monggo dicoba..

The apple tree story

I gave this story to my student when i had the material about Narrative text. I played the story then i let them to listen carefully to understand the content of the story. After finishing it, i asked some questions related to the text then we discussed the content together. when i came to the question what moral message we can take from the story, my students cried..... What's wrong with them???

The Apple Tree

A long time ago, there was a big apple tree. A little boy loved to come and played with it everyday. He climbed the tree, ate its apples, and took a nap under the shadow. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by….. the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday. One day the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. The tree asked the boy: “come and play with me”. The boy replied:” I am no longer kid, I don’t play around you anymore, I want toys. I need money to buy them”. The tree said:” sorry…. I don’t have money, but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So you will have money”. The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. The tree asked the boy: “come and play with me”. The boy replied:” I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my wife and my children. We need house for shelter. Can you help me?.” The tree said:” sorry…. But I don’t have house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.” The boy was so excited. He cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day , the boy returned and the tree was delighted. The tree asked the boy: “come and play with me”. The boy replied:” I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax my self. Can you give me a boat?”. The tree said:” use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.” The boy was so excited. He cut the trunk to make a boat . he went sailing and never showed up for long time.

Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. The tree said to the boy: sorry my boy but I don’t have anything for you anymore. No more apple for you..” the boy replied “ I don’t have teeth to bite” “no more trunk for you to climbed on” “ I have no power to climb on” the tree said with tears. “I really can’t give you anything.. the only thing left is my dying roots” the boy replied “ I don’t need much now, just place to rest. I am tired after all these years”. The tree said” good.. old tree roots is the best place to rest. Come, come sit down with me and rest”. The boy sat down and the tree was so glad and smiled with tears……

Feel it.....

Teaching English Through A Song

This is one of the example of song that i gave to my students in listening Comprehension

I ommited some words then students completed them while they were listening the song

Mother how are you today

Mother, how are you today?
Here is a _________from your__________
With me __________is ok.
Mother, how are you today?
Mother, don't__________, I'm fine.
I Promise to _________you this__________
This time there will be no __________.
Mother, how are you today?
I found the __________of my dreams.
Next time you will _________to know him.
Many things __________while I was away. Mother, how are you today?

Answer : note, daughter, everything, worry, see, summer, delay, man, get, happened

Cara Mudah Pencarian di Google

1. AND: Mencari informasi yang mengandung kedua kata yang dicari. Bisa menggunakan salah satu dari tiga alternatif berikut:ukiran jeparaukiran AND jeparaukiran+jepara
2. OR: Mencari informasi yang mengandung salah satu dari kedua kata. Bisa menggunakan salah satu dari dua alternatif berikut:tahu OR tempetahu tempe
3. FRASE: Mencari informasi yang mengandung frase yang dicari dengan menggunakan tanda “”. Contoh:“perangkat lunak”
4. NOT: Hasil pencarian mengandung kata yang di depan, tapi tidak yang dibelakang minus (-). Contoh di bawah akan mencari informasi yang mengandung kata ikan tapi bukan bandeng.ikan -bandeng
5. SINONIM (~): Mencari kata beserta sinonim-sinonimnya. Contoh di bawah akan membawa hasil pencarian: kendaraan (car) dan sinonim-sinonimnya.~car
6. ASTERIK (*): Karakter pengganti kata. Dari contoh di bawah, hasil yang didapat bisa: ayam bakar pedas, ayam goreng pedas, ayam masak pedas, dsbayam * pedas
7. TANDA TITIK (.): Karakter pengganti huruf, angka dan karakter tunggal. Dari contoh di bawah, hasil yang didapat bisa: kopi, koki, kodi, dsbko.i
8. CASE INSENSITIVE: Pencarian di Google menganggap kapital dan bukan kapital sebagai sesuatu yang sama. Jadi, romi satria wahono, Romi Satria Wahono, atau RoMi SaTrIA waHoNo akan membawa hasil pencarian yang sama
9. PENGABAIAN KATA: Google mengabaikan keyword berupa karakter tunggal dan kata-kata berikut: a, about, an, and, are, as, at, b, by, from, how, i , in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with. Apabila kita masih tetap menginginkan pencarian kata tersebut, bisa dengan menggunakan karakter + di depan kata yang dicari (contoh: Star Wars Episode +I), atau bisa juga dengan menganggapnya sebagai frase (contoh: “Star Wars Episode I”)
10. I’M FEELING LUCKY: Akan membawa kita langsung menuju ke hasil pencarian pertama dari query kita

FITUR PENCARIAN LANJUT

1. DEFINE: Mencari definisi dari sebuah terminologi. Dari contoh di bawah, hasil yang didapat adalah berbagai definisi tentang e-learning dari berbagai sumberdefine:e-learning
2. CACHE: Menampilkan situs web yang telah diindeks oleh Google meskipun sudah tidak aktif lagi. Contoh di bawah akan menghasilkan pencarian kata php pada situs ilmukomputer.com yang ada di indeks Google.cache:ilmukomputer.com php
3. LINK: Menampilkan daftar link yang mengarah ke sebuah situs. Contoh di bawah akan menampilkan daftar link yang mengarah ke situs ilmukomputer.comlink:ilmukomputer.com
4. RELATED: Menampilkan daftar situs yang serupa, mirip atau memiliki hubungan dengan suatu situsrelated:romisatriawahono.net
5. INFO: Menampilkan informasi yang Google ketahui tentang sebuah situsinfo:romisatriawahono.net
6. SITE: Menampilkan pencarian khusus di suatu situs yang ditunjukjava site:ilmukomputer.com
7. FILETYPE: Menampilkan hasil pencarian berupa suatu jenis (ekstensi) file tertentu. Jenis file yang bisa dicari adalah: doc, xls, rtf, swf, ps, lwp, wri, ppt, pdf, mdb, txt, dsb. Contoh di bawah akan menampilkan hasil pencarian berupa file PDF yang mengandung keyword software engineeringsoftware engineering filetype:pdf
8. ALLINTITLE: Menampilkan seluruh kata yang dicari dalam TITLE halaman. Contoh di bawah akan menghasilkan halaman yang memiliki title java programming. allintitle ini tidak dapat digabungkan dengan operator (sintaks) lain. Gunakan intitle untuk keperluan itu.allintitle:java programming
9. INTITLE: Menampilkan satu kata yang dicari dalam TITLE halaman. Contoh di bawah akan menghasilkan halaman yang memiliki title java dan isi halaman yang mengandung kata enterpriseintitle:java enterprise
10. ALLINURL: Menampilkan seluruh kata yang dicari di dalam URL. Contoh di bawah akan menghasilkan daftar URL yang mengandung kata java dan programming. allinurl ini tidak dapat digabungkan dengan operator (sintaks) lain. Gunakan inurl untuk keperluan itu.allinurl:java programming
11. INURL: Menampilkan satu kata yang dicari di dalam URL. Contoh di bawah akan menghasilkan daftar URL yang mengandung kata java dan isi halaman yang mengandung kata enterpriseinurl:java enterprise

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