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55 Teaching Dilemamas

April 29, 2009 1 comment

Teachers should have personal and professional power. These power will help students to learn with more energy.

personal power

  • caring for others
  • inner power
  • diligent
  • personal defense

professional power

  • organization
  • teaching strategy
  • communication
  • class management
  • motivation
  • presentation
  • leadership

Kathy Paterson, 55 Teaching Dilemmas, Grasindo, Jakarta, 2007

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National Plus ICT Curriculum Framework

March 18, 2009 Leave a comment

After all studies of ICT National Curriculum, PYP, and Cambridge ICT Starters Curriculum, here’s the best match that we can do for teaching ICT for National Plus School ( primary to middle school ):

Grade 4

  • Initial Steps ( Stage 1 ): Starting With text, images, graphs ( www.cie.org.uk )
  • Initial / Next Steps ( Stage 2): Starting / Exploring Control ( www.softronix.com )

Grade 5

  • Keyboarding – typing master / typing tutor
  • word processing for specific purpose ( KTSP SMP VIII/ Sem 1 )

Grade 6

  • spreadsheets for specific purpose ( KTSP SMP VIII/ Sem 2 )
  • On Track ( Stage 2 ): Control for a purpose / robotics ( www.cie.org.uk )

Grade 7

  • On Track ( Stage 2 ): Website design for a purpose ( www.cie.org.uk )
  • Programming / Photoshop

Grade 8

Grade 9

  • intranet / internet ( KTSP SMP IX / Sem 1 dan 2 )

if you need a complete draft – including the assessment check list for this, don’t hesitate to call me 🙂 i would love to share them

Categories: Education

Share for teaching ICT

March 16, 2009 Leave a comment

There are differences teaching ICT to students between local and foreign teachers….

  •  local teachers ( the one that i live here ) teach with step by step instruction where students treat as a bucket for transfering knowledge. students have to wait for teacher explaining the content.
  • foreign teachers teach with inquiers method where students given a task / project so they can find themselves learning new things. students does not have to wait for teacher explaining the content.

Sometimes, i stand in the middle of both 🙂 But instead of teaching my students with step by step instruction , i prefer give them a project with achievable result so they can find themselves learning new things over and over again. That is the most valuable things that you can give to them

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How to teach programming to kids

March 13, 2009 Leave a comment

if you’re looking a a way to teach programming to our kids, you may use MSW LOGO programming from http://www.softronix.com/. It has a built in LOGO programming language, some tutorials and interesting samples, and most of all it’s a freeware. i teach this to my kids for teaching controll.

Categories: Education

Complete Module

March 5, 2009 2 comments

We heard many times about Module. when we’re following some training,they usually give us a thing called “Module” :), but many of us aware not about how to build a complete module. Say as a teacher/trainer, you’re given a task to create a Module, what items you should create for this ?

here are the complete module structure following the AQTF/RTO standards:

  • Student Guide: a place where you can put theory and concepts
  • Student Activity: a place where you can put theory on Student Guide to practice and questions
  • Slide Presentation: a place where you can put your overall topics in a slide presentation
  • Facilitator Guide: exactly the same with Student Activity plus anwered key of the practice and questions within.
  • sesssion / lesson plan: a place where you can put your plan detail of teaching or delivering the subject. 
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