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Sunday, November 28, 2010

" A Chat with My Friend"

Last wednesday, me and my friend went to mall for windows shopping.while we were waiting for our menu to come, we were talking about our academic result. She told me so many things about her college life. One thing that made me feel upset was when she told me about her lecturers at her campus. The lecturer did not really care about his/her students progress. The way he/she taught is not interesting, eventhough they already used ICT in her/his classroom. They just teach and teach all the time. My friend said " the lecturer is just like a robot. They came to the class, lecturing with no pauses, then gave us the assignment and i'm sick of it". I think this kind of situation happened almost in all university in Indonesia. The important thing for the lecturer is, they delivered the material to the student, they got the score from the assignment, then it's done.  This sort of problem made my friend thought that the most important thing in studying a subject is the score not the knowledge. Hearing this statement, I felt shock. I suggested her to be more dilligent in order to get the knowledge. The score is nothing. The most important thing is the knowledge. What is the use of score if you don't get the knowledge? As the next generation of teacher, i will try to solve this issue. I will teach and monitor my students progress as well. Teaching will happen if there is a change in our students.
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2 comments:

  1. Dear Grace,

    First of all, I really appreciate that you want to solve this issue because you are the next generation of teacher, right? But in what kind of "real way" you want to deal with this issue?

    Second of all, indeed, yes, gaining the knowledge that the students can apply in their real life is the number one aim for teaching and learning process. I agree with you for that. But, isn't the score important too, especially for the students to be graduated from their schools? The schools wouldn't allow the students with bad marks to graduate. So, what i am asking is: how could you balance these gaining knowledge and score issues?

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  2. we have to use different kind of assessment i think. such as formatif, summative and diagnostic. we cannot just take the summative score. :)

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