Hello my dear readers of my blog.
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| too bad I forgot to bring my camera so I just take this photo from my instagram._. |
In this post I want to share my experience
when I joined a seminar in my town. The topic of the seminar was “Local Values
in English Teaching Materials (Curriculum 2013 Perspective)”. It was held in
Grand Mahkota Hotel Pontianak, March 16th 2013. My impression of the
seminar is AWESOME! It was a great experience to be there due to many knowledge
I get. I want to share a little bit from one of the presenter on the seminar. There are two things that made it special, first is the speaker who is
native speaker and the second is the place which is very cozy. The committee
was doing very good job to bring an inspiring person, Joshua Yardley, MA. He is
a lesson planning and classroom management expert (hehe I’ve just googled it). The only thing about his
personality I could get on his presentation is “He likes teaching so much”. Well,
to be honest I just don’t remember what exactly his occupation but he is in
English Teaching and Learning World that has many experiences of teaching in some
countries. He joined English Language Fellowship and has already sometime
stayed in Banda Aceh. I was so amazed in his presentation and I even recorded
it with my phone (just because I was afraid to lose something hehehe).
From the main presentation which was
presented by Joshua, I got many knowledge related to Teaching Learning English
that will be very useful for my future as an English teacher (amin). The presentation was begun with the illustration
about the effectiveness of materials for instruction. The more materials
presented by teacher, the better for the instruction because they have positive
correlation. But Joshua showed a new
perspective of teaching. It started with Dogma 95 which is about film
by Lars von Trier & Thomas Vinterberg and came to Dogma Elt by Scott
Thornbury. The content of Dogma ELT is “Teaching should be done using only the
resources that teachers and students bring to the classroom – i.e. themselves –
and whatever happens to be in the classroom. If a particular piece of material
is necessary for the lesson, a location must be chosen where that material is
to be found.” From this dogma, it is clearly shown that the most important in
teaching learning is the students and how we could bring them to the more
interesting teaching learning process by materials that is about themselves. According
to his that related teaching and psychology by a simple question “How are
you today?” with a notebook and a pen we – as a teacher – can make materials
which is more authentic and more interesting for students – because it is about
themselves. I was explained a new approach – maybe for me – Language Experience
Approach. First step they create a story in their mother tongue then the
teacher or peer helps to translate so that students can learn based on their
own story. I think it was worth to try for my future students and I will
analyze how are students’ response about my teaching method. In that occasion,
blogs and phones also shown as good media for teaching and learning process. For
example, blog is a good media for the introverts and intrapersonal students. That
is absolutely true because I am an intrapersonal and I like blog very much! Hahaha.
There are also several website that Joshua shared for us, next time I will try
it one by one and make a special posting on this blog. By the way I have tried
the feature of www.wordle.net that provide
us to copy and paste a writing or a address of a website and create a “word
clouds”. It will show us the most often uses word on our writing or website. These are the example of my personal blog and this blog. You must try this! :D
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| this blog. cool, eh? haha |
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| this is from my personal blog :D |
