1, 2,3 and Action

The Stage is Ours

Learning Celebration, is one of event that will be conducted by each grade of primary school. It has aimed to show the parents about the things that have been learned by student. In grade 3, the learning celebration was conducted in the second unit. It is time for students to show their talents though mini drama musical. The drama was tribute for all children in Indonesia who are not common or do not know the children songs. The students will sing Indonesian children songs and acting by using English. For that reason, the tittle of this drama musical is "LAGU BERCERITA" or "The story of the song". 

There are 3 classes of grade 3. The students were divided into some team. They are actors, singers and dancers. They choose by themselves where they want to join.  We have practiced for about 1 month and the final day is them. They have fun on the stage. They play, laugh and sing happily on the stage, because the Stage is THEM.

The wonderful of UOI 2

Expressing Ourselves through Different Kinds of Arts

Let's learn about art. If you think that this is art lesson, it means you have different point of view. 

In this UOI, we talked about Expressing ourselves through different kinds of arts. Students are learning about different kinds of art, elements of arts and in the end of this topic they will perform by using the chosen art. The chosen art it means, they can chose to perform by singing, drawing, writing, designing, acting, dancing, etc. 

They will figure out the difference of art and artist. How art works in daily lives and what is the favorite art from others point of view. This picture shows that students interviewed their Visual Art teacher and other people at school to know, what is their favorite art.

In this unit, students also find out about their favorite artist from different kinds of art. There are music, literature, movie, photography, design and sculpture. We focus on the local artist to explore their curiosity about the arts in their own country. 

Math is the subject that I taught for this unit. Of course, I also teach for UOI - POI and ICT subjects together with my colleagues. 

For Math, we focus on the 2D and 3D shapes and also simple problem of multiplication and division from 1-10. The students are expected to solve word problem and simple problem by doing multiplication or division. 

Mat Pad and Auto Rap applications are used for the ICT. Students created their own composition of music by using Mat Pad and doing Rap for their poem in Bahasa Indonesia. They did well and all the creations are unique.

Rubric Presentation

Hai Friends, 

In this post, I attach the rubric that I use when assessing students' performance for presentation about respecting others. I need rubric to assess, so it is a guide for me in order to be more objective. I made it in Bahasa Indonesia because that is the language that we use for this subject. In my IB school, the native language is used during Bahasa Indonesia, PKN and Religion subjects.

Here is the rubric. I hope it can be a reference for you to create the rubric of presentation. :)

Criteria	M	D	E	I
Penjelasan dan pengetahuan mengenai tema	Menggunakan fakta yang tidak detail dan tidak mendukung ide utama.	Menggunakan sedikit fakta yang detail dan mendukung ide utama.	Menggunakan fakta yang sesuai dan detail serta jelas untuk mendukung kalimat utama.	Menggunakan fakta yang sesuai, detail, jelas dan runut guna mendukung ide utama yang dikembangkan dalam contoh.
Organization	·         Mempresentasikan ide tidak secara runut ·         Presentasi tidak direncanakan, terlalu lama atau terlalu sebentar ·         Penonton tidak dapat mengerti ide dari presentasi	·         Mempresentasikan ide agak sedikit runut, siswa memberikan penjelesan secara melompat sehingga penonton kesulitan untuk mengerti ide presentasi ·         Presentasi sesuai dengan waktu yang diberikan, tetapi beberapa bagian dipresentasikan terlalu lama dan terlalu sebentar.	·         Mempresentasikan ide secara runut sehingga penonton mengerti ide presentasi ·         Presentasi agak sesuai dengan waktu yang diberikan.	·         Mempresentasikan ide secara logis, runut dan menarik sehingga penonoton mengerti. ·         Presentasi sesuai dengan waktu yang diberikan, tidak ada bagian yang terlalu lama maupun sebentar.
Eyes and Body	·         Tidak melihat ke audience dan membaca notes. ·         Terlihat gelisah atau selalu membungkuk	·          Membuat eye contact ke audience, tetapi sering membaca notes. ·         Sedikit terlihat gelisah dan kadang membungkuk	·         Selalu membuat eye contact ke audience, hanya sekali membaca notes. ·         Memperlihatkan posisi badan yang tegak dan terlihat percaya diri, terkadang bergerak-gerak gelisah	·         Membuat eye contact ke audience selama presentasi tanpa membaca notes. ·         Memperlihatkan posisi badan yang tegak dan terlihat percaya diri
Suara	·         Suara terlalu kecil dan tidak jelas ·         Menggunakan Bahasa yang tidak formal	·         Berbicara dengan suara sedang dan kadang pelafalan tidak jelas sehingga audience kesulitan untuk mengerti. ·         Menggunakan Bahasa formal, walaupun tetap ada sedikit Bahasa yang tidak formal.	·         Berbicara dengan suara yang keras dan kebanyakan pelafalan kata dengan jelas sehingga dapat didengar oleh sebagian besar penonton. ·         Menggunakan Bahasa yang formal.	·         Berbicara dengan suara yang keras dan pelafalan jelas serta Bahasa formal yang dapat didengar oleh seluruh penonoton.
Alat bantu Presentasi	·         Tidak menggunakan media audio, visual. ·         Menggunakan media yang mengganggu presentasi	·         Menggunakan media audio maupun visual, tetapi media yang digunakan kadang mengganggu presentasi dan tidak mendukung tema.	·         Menggunakan sedikit media audio maupun visual yang dapat mendukung presentasi.	Menggunakan media audio maupun visual yang dapat mendukung penyampaian presentasi.
Respon terhadap pertanyaan	·         Tidak dapat menjawab pertanyaan dari audience.	·         Menjawab pertanyaan yang diberikan audience, tetapi tidak jelas dan lengkap.	·         Menjawab pertanyaan yang diberikan audience dengan jelas.	·         Menjawab pertanyaan yang diberikan audience dengan jelas dan lengkap menggunakan contoh.
Kerja Sama Team	·         Tidak semua anggota tim berpartisipasi, hanya satu atau dua orang yang berbicara.	·         Sebagian anggota tim berbicara, namun tidak medapat bagian yang sama.	·         Semua anggota tim berbicara dalam bagian waktu yang tidak sama dan semua anggota tim dapat menjawab pertanyaan yang diberikan.	·         Semua anggota tim berbicara dalam bagian waktu yang sama dan semua anggota tim dapat menjawab pertanyaan yang diberikan.

The Exicetement of UOI 1

The Unique of IB System

In IB system, we have Unit of Inquiry (UOI). The theme of learning is based on the current UOI. For instance, now I teach grade 3 of primary school. The first UOI is about Who We are. It is to give understanding to the students about their existance in this world. They are part of them selves, family, school, friendship and community. The central idea of this UOI is Respecting Rights and Responsibilities of Others. The students are expected to know the difference of right and responsibility. They try to find out their rights and responsibilities are and how they respect it.

The children were looking for the question that they make in the beginning of UOI. They found out the answer by research, interviewing, asking parents, teacher or siblings. Read books and they need to relate it and implement it in their life. The picture below was taken when the students were looking for information about the rights and responsibilities of people who have different professions such as security, cleaning service officers, teacher, principals, etc.

The students learn how to communicate with other people and to make them selves as a risk taker students. They need to talk in a good manner and be confident when interviewing the people.

Students interviewed a security

In this unit, I teach UOI-POI which includes science and social studies, Bahasa Indonesia and Civilization Education. For Bahasa Indonesia, students are expected to create an exposition text to explain their analysis for understanding related to the rights and responsibilities. They can choose to focus in both areas or in one aspect, whether it is rights or responsibilities. Their exposition text are great. There are students who made the rights of navy, athlete and pilot because they want to be like that. Some of my students made the responsibilities of children at home.  They put their work in portfolio.  

For PKN or Civilization Education, we learn about how to respect others. The students present their ideas through different ways, poster, role playing and story telling. They also create cards for the special person that contains their thank as a representation that they respect others. 

Welcome to the Life

Hello everyone..... :) 

 My name is Pertiwi. I am a graduated student from a college in Jakarta this year. Now, I work as a primary teacher in an IB school in Jabodetabek for the year of 2014 - 2015. I am an associated homeroom teacher who has responsibility to teach and become a homeroom teacher for two classes.

 It is the new and big challenge for me because commonly I work with secondary students. Now, I need to learn quickly about the ways to teach primary students. I love this job. I have gotten a lot of knowledge about the system in IB curriculum, so I can compare it with government system for further learning. Now,I am writing to share about my short experience becoming a new teacher in my new life..

I, You, and Our identities in daily life

Identity of someone, that is really important to introduce ourselves to another people. I think identity is one of characteristics which human have as a social creatures. From identity we can know each other deeper.

For my identity everyone has known me as a Javanese person because of my name is really “Kejawa-jawaan”. My previous friends in my previous school call me with “jawir” because they know the background culture of my family is Java.

Am I Sumatrans or Jakartanese or Javanese??? At the present many of my friends think that I am a Sumatrans. They guess my identity because the volume of my voice when I speak something. They said I like Sumatrans person and they did not think that my family background is from Java. Javanese people are soft and elegant for the woman not like me who always speak loud and attractive. They think like that and that stereotype makes many people guess that I am Sumatrans or Jakartanese.

The second identity is many people think that I am a Chinese. Maybe for now my friends not really make it as a big problem. For me, it doesn’t matter if there is someone who wants to call me with “cici” and most of the new one of my friend for sure they called me with “cici”.

In my school now, my friends know me as one of the students who round way from my house at Cengkareng to campus every day by Transjakarta bus. It’s like new identity for me because my friends always describe my identity with “the girl who lives at Cengkareng and round way from her house to campus every day. Actually, Transjakarta bus also gives me many influences. Everybody has known me as busway girl and if there is my friend who wants to go to somewhere by Transjakarta bus, they usually ask me for the route.

I have many friends which is comes from different ethnic, culture background and religion. With my identity I just try to introduce myself to them as good as I can. I tried to adapting myself with their style. It can be the style when we are speaking something or when we eat or anything. Actually I did it not because I want them to like me but it is one of the ways I respect with their appearances. It doesn’t mean that I use a mask when I communicate with them. By that way I also can be myself, the difference only I have to control myself when I communicate with other people.

For example, I admit that if I speak my voice volume sometimes in out control. When I speak with my friends from Java, they will assume that I angry with them if I speak like that. So, I have to be slower and lower my volume to respect them. One day when I speak with Java person she asked me to decrease my volume, more calm and asked why I angry with her. I was surprise and confused at that time. When I asked to her what the reasons she spoke to me like that and my friend answered that she was afraid and assumed that I was angry with her. From that memory, I always try to speak or manage my attitude carefully when I speak with my friend who comes from different areas with me.

I tried to know first the background of culture from my friends. It doesn’t mean because I want to differentiate them but I want to adapt myself with them. I have experience, when I met with my friend which come from Sukabumi I thought that they are really soft and really stolid. In my opinion she was a boring and the accent of her language was strange. All of that was wrong after I know her deeper. She is attractive and kind girl. I hope with I know the background of my friend there won’t misunderstanding between me and them. Even though with my best friend who know deeper about me I try to adapt myself with them but in this context I can be free to speak with them.

Creative + Calm + Understand + Good Preparation = Good Teaching

Micro teaching... In the last meeting is turn for us to be a teacher even this is only practice actually. I had learned about kind of instruction for teaching and I know there are four kind of instruction such as lecture discussion, group interaction, lecture discovery and direct teaching. From my friends micro teaching I guess most of us use group interaction for assessment and lecture discovery for explain the material.

I think we can apply our instruction based on our students’ condition. So, for the first and important we should know the characteristic of our class and the lesson that we will teach. After that we can decide the right instruction which not only help us to deliver material but also make our students feel enjoy with our course. For this meeting I learned grabbing our students’ attention not only in the beginning of the class, but also in every time is really important. If our students pay attention with us they can understand the instruction which we deliver.

I know to make balance teaching and learning process we should combine the right instruction, method and technique. All of that can complete each other if we combine well. My lecture said, we can use more than one instruction but I confused because it will be complicated I think.

For my group micro teaching, I think it not really good. There are a lot of differences with the plan. Everything is change because there is no good coordination between each member. In my opinion that is my group weaknesses. Does not care with the assignment, not well preparation, and technique problem also include in weaknesses. All of that we can handle with our lesson plan and clear explanation, I think those are my group strengthens. For this micro teaching I learned how to be creative and never give up if our lesson plan not works well. In my opinion, everything will be in our control if we still calm and not panic.

This meeting can be important lesson for me to be more creative. I think in this micro teaching myself did not give the best. I am panic and give up. I learned to improve myself for the future.