Wadi Sofia: Weekend

29 Agustus 2013

In Wadi Sofia, weekend starts from Friday until Saturday. Because I have no class in Thursday,
I stay in the resource room to study the preparation for teaching such as lesson plan and so on. I also observe our friends teaching on different classes. I have another job, it is making the speech for the celebration of independence day next Sunday.

At the night we go out to buy Roti Tempayan. It cost only RM 1. If you buy with the beef curry sauce which  costs RM 2, it will be RM 3. The taste of the sauce is same with the sauce for Roti Canai. But, Roti Canai is made with egg while Roti Tempayan has no filling. I prefer Roti Canai than Roti Tempayan. But still, both of them is delicious hehe.

30 Agustus 2013

We have a vacation today. Start from Pengkalan Kubor, then pantai Sri Tujoh, the next is KB Mall and then Pasar Cik Ye. 

We should just bought chocolate in Pengkalan Kubor. Because other things except the chocolate has higher price than those in Indonesia. The most lovely chocolate I bought in Pengkalan Kubor is Ferrero Rochero and Hershey’s. I supposed to bought the Beryl’s one. Since we've been planning to go to The Chocolate Factory in Kula Lumpur which produces Beryl’s, I cancel it. 

The next is Pantai Sri Tujoh. It is the famous beach in Kelantan. I'm playing in then sand of the beach, drinking Lychee Ice, and enjoying the sea breeze while eating the shells.

After that we go to KB Mall. I use this chance to take our money from ATM. At first it was a failure although there are master card and cirrus written on the board. Then I try use the Bank Simpanan Negara and I success take my money. In KB Mall there are such things like Matahari or Hypermart in Indonesia. The Pacific is a KB Mall’s version of Hypermart and Fashion Outlet Store (F.O.S) is that of Matahari. I bought a very cute foldable umbrella in Guardian since I have no one in Surabaya. It is the red angry bird umbrella and it costs RM 8. Cheap ya, hehe. Then I’m falling in love with the lime top in F.O.S and I crazily bought it in RM 49. Kyaa. So far, KB Mall is quite good if the location of the surau is not suck. I spent half an hour just for struggling look for surau’s location that actually is out of the mall. The direction board is also can not be trusted. Sigh. 

Then we spent the rest of the day in Pasar Cik Yen just for dinner. I’ve gone mad to go around this market since the price is so so so cheap then that in Pengkalan Kubor. Grrrrrr. In this market I bought nasi with ceker ayam, it is RM 3. So far this one day vacation is fun enough. But not that awesome. 

31 Agustus 2013

Happy Independence Day, Malaysia
In this peaceful free day I start with running around the campus and enjoy the strong wifi since there are no people use it. I also bake my bread myself. I think that it is a very good morning to start a good free day hehe. 

Wadi Sofia: Day Four

28 Agustus 2013

            We have a schedule to teach today. Since we just stay here for only two weeks, we don’t have much time to experience teaching students who come from many different country. That’s why for today we do team teaching so at least we teach them twice. 

            Since the secondary four is IGCSE class, the materials we use to learn obviously taken from the IGCSE syllabus. For this meeting, the materials is very short. The topic is thermal energy transfer while the sub-topic is conduction. 

                  We use Microsoft Power Point as media to explore the materials. We use concept attainment model and think-pair-share for this class since there are only few students. First part is handled by Dewa who describe conductor and insulator through experiment. Then it is me who explain the way vibrating molecules inside the solid transfer heat. Before the class end, we give them mini quiz conducted by Ety. So far, students get excited and understand everything we teach. But still we need to practice speaking English so it won’t be stuck in the middle of talking for both explaining and teaching.

 

photo by ety

Wadi Sofia: Day Three

27 Agustus 2013

We do an observation today. The class we’re going to teach is Secondary Four in Science Stream. So, the students in Secondary Four has to choose their major whether it is in Science Stream or Art Stream. 

There are 8 students in the Class. All of them come from different country: Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Korea. All of them understand the way teacher speak and teach in English but it’s not the same for their speaking. There are one Korean boy and one Malaysian who don’t speak English confidently. Though, this class has good atmosphere in studying. All the students get along together and work hard in studying together with teacher.

The class is facilitated by the air conditioner, fan, book case, white board, cleaning equipments, and notice board. Notice board is full-filled by the organization chart, cleaning duty time table, and the lesson schedule. The most attractive one is papers filled by students dream, passion, and what they think about themselves

Class starts with the greeting of the student. Teacher then review the previous materials before the lesson begin. Teacher named Madam Khamsana who is our mentor often teach using illustration which is made by herself on the board. Since Madam Khamsana is Singaporean and she is graduated from the qualified university in Singapore, she can handle the teaching process in English very well with the students. The most outstanding student who master in speaking English come from India called Nidha and Malaysia called Yusran. There is also a student who always curious and has high criticize into what teacher share. She is Amy. She is very bright and confident in speaking English even though her English is not fluently enough. Overall the class goes smooth. The students ask the logical question, the teacher made a conclusion together with the student as we do in Indonesia. In the end of class, student must submit their IGCSE exam’s exercise to the teacher as their preparation for the real examination.

 photo by: ety and fitria

Singapore in One Day

Singapore!

Berangkat dari Surabaya ke Malaysia naik Airasia, aku dan temen-temen PPL ku mampir Singapura. 

Kita nyampai jam 11 siang di Changi Airport dan langsung cus naik MRT turun di City Hall karena tujuan kita adalah The Esplanade. Masuk ke Esplanade kita disambut dengan berbagai art view yang keren-keren banget. Yang menarik perhatian adalah ada poster besar Jogja Hip Hop yang bakal tampil di Esplanade. Seneng lihatnya. Sempet liat juga tanda tempat booking tiket Girl's Generation World Tour. Finally, I came to the Esplanade, tempat segala pertunjukan keren dilangsukan. Setelah muter-muter di dalem Esplanade, kita langsung naik ke Roof Terrace dan ngelihat bentuk Esplanade yang kaya duren hehe dan keliatan patung singone Singapura, The Merlion. 

Langsung setelah itu juga kita jalan ke tempat Merlion berdiri, yaitu Merlion Park. Waktu kita singkat karena kita masih harus ke China Town dan malamnya langsung cus Malaysia. Perlu diingat dari Changi sampai China Town aku dan temen-temen narik koper sambil jalan cepat (almost run!). Bayangin kita nenteng koper ke mana-mana di pusat jantung Singapura, bahkan di dalam MRT hihi. 

Setelah ada accident aku tertinggal rombongan, kami melanjutkan ke China Town dari Merlion naik MRT. Turunnya di China Town juga. Kita dikasih tahu Ko Danil spot yang semua barang ada dengan harga terjangkau. Jadi kita nggak perlu muterin semua China Town yang besar sekali itu. Kalau kamu bawa 25 dolar buat belanja uda cukup banget. Mau banyakan dikit bawa 50 dolar. Mau kemaruk ya bawalah lebih. Tapi 50 dolar udah lebih dari cukup kok. Oiya deket China Town ada masjid juga yang asik buat solat. Jalan kaki lima menit juga nyampe hehe.

Kemaren kita sampai China Town jam 9 dan belanja cuma 45 menit karena bis yang menjemput kita untuk berangkat ke Malaysia datang jam 10. That's all from seharian nentengin koper di Singapura. Suatu saat aku harus ke sini lagi, pastinya tanpa nenteng koper ke mana-mana hehe.

photo by taufiq dan ety

Educational Research

Senin, 19 November 2012

Fakultas MIPA mengadakan kuliah tamu untuk mahasiswa program kelas internasional tentang Educational Research by Robin Averill dari Victoria University, New Zealand.

Bu Robin sharing tentang apa sebenernya research itu. Kalau sebagian besar orang menganggap research sebagai hal yang memusingkan dan momok yang menakutkan dikarenakan research itu sebagai tugas akhir semacam tesis, skripsi, disertasi dll, Bu Robin lebih menggambarkan research sebagai sarana untuk menjabarkan apa yang sebenarnya ingin kita sampaikan. Mungkin sebagian besar orang dari bidang pendidikan sudah sangat akrab dengan yang namanya lesson plan atau rpp. Bahkan ada beberapa institusi yang mewajibkan rpp harus dan mutlak ada dalam setiap research. Research must go with lesson plan, isn't it? Aku nanya gitu ke Bu Robin. Kata beliau, Research can go without lesson plan. There is method to reach your aim. Just make it simple.

Jadi inti presentasi yang kemaren Bu Robin sampaikan ada tiga, yaitu tentang educational research, research proposals, dan menulis research. Such a good timing for my carrier  *kalem

Untuk research proposal sendiri, menurut Bu Robin secara Internasional standarnya sebagai berikut.

Title (summaries project and uses by key words)
Abstract (summary)
Aims and expected outcomes of the study
Research question (focussed and researchable)
Background - what is known and what is not
Proposed methodology and method
Ethical considerations
Validity and reliability
Proposed analysis method
Timeline
Draft data gathering tools (survey, interview, etc)

Di sesi menulis research, Bu Robin membagikan berbagai contoh abstrak dan meminta kita untuk menilai apa kelebihan dan kekurangan tiap abstrak. Abstrak harus terdiri dari 5 parts: Background/ Problem, Aims, Sample and Method, Result, and Conclusions/Discussion/Implications. Jadi kita menilai abstrak ya dari 5 part itu, udah ada semua atau belum.

Selanjutnya Bu Robin membagikan tips supaya research kita bisa getting published. Yang pertama, apa yang mau kita sampaikan harus jelas, tidak terlalu ngambang dan umum. Kedua, Error Free. Maksudnya jangan sampai ada part yang kurang dan ada typing error. Nyesek banget kan kalau misalnya research kita uda bagus tapi direject cuma gara-gara typo (andwae! hehe). Yang ketiga, sound argument. Jadi, diharapkan research kita memang hal yang harus diteliti, hal baru yang orang lain belum tau. Orang ga bakal baca kan kalau research kita bukan hal baru yang orang lain juga udah tahu itu apaan. Jadi pastikan kita juga rajin membaca jurnal jurnal research yang uda ada biar tetep apdet dan gak ketinggalan info research terkini.

Thank you Bu Robin for sharing together :D