Communicating Effectively with Parents and Intervening when Misbehavior Occurs By: Nurlelah

Teachers are main actor s in the class; they are powerful and also stand in strong position. However, teachers do not think that they can do everything for their students with any reason. Teachers also have to think about students’ needs. Hence, teachers and students must build two ways communication. They must have good communication in the class and outside because it will be easy for teachers to know students’ needs and also problems.

            Teachers are parents for students in schools. The teachers also have to make comfort zone for students to build students confidence, trust and safety. The students also have to respect their teachers as their parents. They can work together in the class. Making good communication is the best way to create good behavior of students and achievement in the class. However, the teachers also can work together with students’ parents. The teachers cannot work alone because students only six hours in the school and most of their time are spent in their home and outside. When the teachers, students and parents can work together in their part, it is possible to get the objectives of learning and teaching. They have to respect each other, they must realized that learning and teaching is not only job for teachers but also students and parents have to take their part to achieve the goal.

Serious Management Problems: Violence and Aggression By: Nurlelah

Actually I am still confusing why the students make violence and also aggression each others. There is no profit that they will give when they do that action. They just give some accidents and injury because of it. However, violence and aggression still happen until now.

             Based on my experiences in teaching in SMAN 82 Jakarta, the students were known often make violence and aggression with another school. When I interviewed one of student there, he said that he did it because of pride. He said that he and his friends did it because they got support from their classmate and alumni. The headmaster and teachers already make some rules for students who do violence and aggression. They also try to communicate with parents. Teachers, students and parents work together and also make an agreement about this. One of action to avoid violence and aggression is the school doe not have uniform of batik that is characteristic of each school. The students are free to wear whatever batik every Thursday. It is done to cover the school’s label. In my opinion that is a good way to avoid violence or aggression because sometime the students who are wearing school uniform with label will be easy to identify from another school.

            Someday I will be a teacher in senior high school. If I were in that position, I would give some positive activities for students in school. It is like extra-kulikuler that is provided to explore students’ needs, interest, talent and also hobby. If the students are busy with positive activities that they like, they will spend their time in school. Hence, extra-kulikuler should be developed in the school to prevent students roam the streets after hours after school.

Planning for Effective Classroom Management By: Nurlelah

Long time ago I thought that classroom management was about sitting arrangement. However, it is not simple as I thought. Classroom management is very important in teaching because the class will run well when we manage the class well too. Classroom management is a part of teaching to achieve our objective. When we do not care about classroom management, the class will be uncontrolled and also difficult to handle. Hence, we really need to manage our class for achieving the objectives of class.

            Based on my experiences in SDN 01 Selong when I did school experiences, I feel easy manage the class in elementary school because I taught children around 7-12 years old. They were funny and fun in the class. They were easy to do my activity and follow my instruction. They did well and they showed me the best thing that they did. However, it will be different when I teach in senior high school. I have bad experiences when I taught in SMAN 82 Jakarta. Most of students did not want to study and they did not hear my explanation. Some of them just care to their gadget and even there was a student slept in the class. Hence, classroom management is not same in every level. We have to take seriously. Start from sitting arrangement, rules of class, time, reward and also punishment in the class. The best thing for managing the class is the teachers have to tell the classroom management in early meeting. Teachers and students make an agreement about what is allowed or not in the class. We also can stick the rules that we make together on the wall. So, teachers and students can see everyday the rules and also remind each other about the rules of class.

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Another Story of Aggression and Violence

            Nowadays, teacher, parents and students are facing another complex problem that often happened in school which is aggression and violence. Aggression and violence is a different thing. Aggression is kind of misbehavior but it does not injure other people while violence is more dangerous that aggression because it can injure the other people and destroy public facilities. I often watched news on television that reported about High school students who did brawling with another schools or even being involved in bullying case. That was a serious problem that can endanger students, teachers, parents and the entire stakeholder if those problems cannot be handled wisely.

            I had experience with those problems when I was in senior high school. My high school is well known as one of school in Jakarta which often did brawling. All the juniors (boys) have to join it otherwise they will be bullied by seniors. Brawling includes as violence crime and my school has a very strict rule about that. If there are any students who did brawling then they will be given punishment or the worst they can be expelled from school. Brawling is already part of tradition in my school. Another case was about bullying. It commonly happened among female students. In my school it was also became tradition where my seniors (girls) would do bullying to their juniors (girls) without any clear reasons. They were like morons because they bullied their juniors only because juniors were more stylish or even popular from her seniors. If they are caught by the teacher then they would take responsibility for their actions in front of the counselor teachers.

            In MMSEL class my friends presented a very tragic video about bullying that happened in US and in the end the victim died by doing suicide. From the incidents that happened around me, I got many lesson learnt. Teachers’ responsibility is not only to make students know everything that they did not know yet. Teachers, parents should be aware that recent incidents are pretty enough to make us reflect that smart is nothing without balance it with good attitudes and good moral. One of the solutions is the entire stakeholders should highlight the importance of affective during the teaching and learning process.

Rahma Chintia Reski

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Another Story of Aggression and Violence

            Nowadays, teacher, parents and students are facing another complex problem that often happened in school which is aggression and violence. Aggression and violence is a different thing. Aggression is kind of misbehavior but it does not injure other people while violence is more dangerous that aggression because it can injure the other people and destroy public facilities. I often watched news on television that reported about High school students who did brawling with another schools or even being involved in bullying case. That was a serious problem that can endanger students, teachers, parents and the entire stakeholder if those problems cannot be handled wisely.

            I had experience with those problems when I was in senior high school. My high school is well known as one of school in Jakarta which often did brawling. All the juniors (boys) have to join it otherwise they will be bullied by seniors. Brawling includes as violence crime and my school has a very strict rule about that. If there are any students who did brawling then they will be given punishment or the worst they can be expelled from school. Brawling is already part of tradition in my school. Another case was about bullying. It commonly happened among female students. In my school it was also became tradition where my seniors (girls) would do bullying to their juniors (girls) without any clear reasons. They were like morons because they bullied their juniors only because juniors were more stylish or even popular from her seniors. If they are caught by the teacher then they would take responsibility for their actions in front of the counselor teachers.

            In MMSEL class my friends presented a very tragic video about bullying that happened in US and in the end the victim died by doing suicide. From the incidents that happened around me, I got many lesson learnt. Teachers’ responsibility is not only to make students know everything that they did not know yet. Teachers, parents should be aware that recent incidents are pretty enough to make us reflect that smart is nothing without balance it with good attitudes and good moral. One of the solutions is the entire stakeholders should highlight the importance of affective during the teaching and learning process.