Sharing the teaching

What is actually your definition about ‘teacher’?  Well, if we define teaching as facilitating learning, it implies that considerations of knowledge transfer are no doubt important. However, it is only valuable only in relation to the quality of learning itself. Being a teacher, there are some skills that you should have, mainly are: 1.       You …

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The Pygmalion Effect

The Pygmalion Effect: The Power of the Supervisor's Expectations Pygmalion adalah salah satu legenda terkenal Romawi yang awalnya ditulis oleh pujangga Ovid. Dalam kisah tersebut, Pygmalion adalah seorang pemahat kesepian yang mengaku tidak pernah tertarik dengan wanita. Suatu saat, dia memahat patung berbentuk seorang wanita dari gading. Patung tersebut sangat indah dan realistis sehingga Pygmalion …

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Good morning participant and honorable judges

As i wrote in my previous post, i would like to share about the unprofessional judges during the story telling national competition in Bandung last july 2008. To strengthen my opinion, i've attached some pictures. Surely, i hope this writing is considered as critics to the betterness for the next national competition. Well, if i …

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Festival Lomba Seni dan Sastra Nasional – Catatan perjalanan

..."kok bisa sih dia yang menang?" (tanpa mengurangi rasa hormat, i'm not going to tell you the name..) itu adalah ungkapan dari beberapa pemenang lomba story telling.. UNPROFESSIONAL mungkin itu adalah satu kata untuk menggambarkan juri lomba story telling yang tingkatnya nasional. Lebih lucu lagi, sehari sesudah pengumuman pemenang, beredar joke.. "Good morning participants, ladies and …

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