The Savior

Not every person is same. One has different learning style than other. That could be happen in way of teaching too, because the person who teaches also has different experience and learning style. This is what I met in my school experience. We met our master teacher and got so much information about his teaching methods. In the first meeting, we just do an introduction about ourselves. We did little sharing about the way of teaching. He told us that if he wants to teach listening he will give a listening section all day long and ask the students to listen and answer the paper sheet. He does not teach anything or even give a brief explanation or evaluation in that day. After giving listening intensively on one day, the next meeting will be a test for listening. We were shocked at the beginning. We said…” a…sir..(laugh) how poor the students sir….” Then he answered”just let them learn by themselves”. Okay, from this side, we have different opinion about teaching student. He likes to teach in front of the class, without any feels of care, he let his students to learn by themselves. If I were a teacher and have my own class, I will teach with so many ways to make my students enjoy the lesson and the important thing is they have deep understanding about the subject that I teach.

In another sharing, he told me about his way of assess students. He said that he really wanted to avoid a subjective assessment. Then, I told him “why don’t you use rubric sir in assessment. It could help you to avoid subjectivity”. He interested in rubric that I suggested. Then he asked me what the rubric is. I told him and I showed him what the rubric looks like. Then he said”o,,,I see…”. Actually, He is a diligent teacher. He always on time in preparing material for his teaching and also he use internet to support his teaching aid.

We made a rubric for him, he also made his own. But it’s quite different. He only classify that 5 is excellent, 4 is very good,…and so on without any explanation what criteria that belong to excellent and other.

Next day, we entered to his class. We did a little observation there. That was a drama presentation. I saw he gave students his rubric. I didn’t know why he used it although we had told him that ours was clearer than him. In the class, I saw the students were active. From their behavior, I can conclude that they are smart although not all students. Most the students have a good pronunciation, creative, speak fluently and confident. I asked to myself how can? The teacher is like that? I am sure that most the students take course outside school. I thought harder and I got the conclusion that was logic enough if we let the students learn by themselves. There is an effort from the students to learn. And the result will stay long time in their mind. It’s like give our belief to them that they can learn by themselves. Even though we have different’ opinion but sometime I like his thought as a teacher. But the problem from this way is what about the student who don’t have spirit of study and students who are from lower economic who cannot take course outside the school.

I don’t really know what’s the matter of this teacher who has little care of his students. But I am sure if I were a teacher I will try to do everything to help my students. I will think deeper and deepest about how to make them satisfy in my lesson.