I worked with Ms Swastika to work on the presentation about teaching Arts. We use several resources to prepare the presentation and get some work samples from around the school to be shown to the participant during the event. Below is the presentation that I use during the workshop.
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This year I got a chance to work with other teachers at school in the School to School commitee. I'm excited to be involved in this event as it's my first experience in School to school to share my knowledge about current educational practices to other teachers who might need it. This platform is the right place for me to gain more experience and skills in sharing and presenting. I worked with Ms Swastika to work on the presentation about teaching Arts. We use several resources to prepare the presentation and get some work samples from around the school to be shown to the participant during the event. Below is the presentation that I use during the workshop.
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As part of action plan we need to review how we see action element in the IBPYP and how we empower school community to put more attention to this important aspect of the IB PYP curriculum. Therefore we conduct a workshop about Action in IB by reviewing of what the school have done and plan for what we can do in the future regarding with Action. Below is the description of the workshop and also the powerpoint presentation that I use for the workshop. Aims: 1. To reinforce action in the PYP Sekolah Ciputra 2. To evaluate the implementation of this program across the PYP levels 3. To know the continuum of Action programme across the year level 4. To share some sample strategies for action empowerment from the school community Process
Below is the presentation slides that I use Adapted from Service Excellent Workshop 2012
If you work in an institution or probably the owner of a company and would like to improve its service, here are some aspects that you might want to consider to look at carefully. Access Access is important for your customer. You need to have good location where people recognize your institution easily. It’s hard to find great and strategic places, but it’s harder to develop comfortable space. When you have found good location, you need to maintain and manage what are inside your institution so the customer and your employees are welcome and feel comfortable. You may use website to expand the accessibility, though this should be fast and easy to access and have quick response for communication. Competency Every staff must know about the product or have high product knowledge. Any customer who enter the building and are curious about the product and service that you offer, need to be responded well by any one that they meet and ask to. You need to keep update your staff with current information through meaningful and purposeful professional development session. Courtesy Many companies have applied this into their service. Positive attitudes and good manner from staff are highly expected by customer. The way we communicate to them can increase credibility of the company. Once they are responded negatively, customer will leave bad impression to your company. Respect and hospitality should be emphasized as part of your company’s service. Reliability You need to avoid giving false data and wrong information about your institution. We might do varied strategies to promote our product or service but need to be careful of what company promise supposed to be what the customer gets. Information for promotion should be based by facts. Responsiveness Related to previous aspects about competency and access, a company should care and show more empathy to the customer by being responsive to their problem or complains. Staff and the administrator should respond to customer concern immediately, otherwise customer might leave to find other company for the products they need. Speed When many aspects are being accomplished, still many of companies nowadays are competing in terms of providing quick and fast service. Considering that time is important for the customer, high speed service should be available for them as they won’t wait too long to find other place which provide better and faster service. Security You might have great product but without customer feeling secured and comfortable with your service then it might cause serious problem to your company. Many cases happened in some institution regarding with the safety issue, and this really drag down those companies’ reputation. Therefore, providing service to make customer feel welcome, safe, secured and comfortable is essential. Tangible Appearance does matter. It becomes one of important aspect in providing service to your customer. Staff must dressed neat and tidy and might come attractive uniform which might influence customer feeling toward your company. You should pay attention more on the aesthetic aspect of the surrounding environment at your working place. This definitely will attract customer to come and want your product. By Alan Yip – Founder and Master Trainer of MINDEDGE
Does male and female learn in different way? Is male more intellectual and logical than female? Is Female more diligent than male? Why is female easy to get moody and angry? Why does male tend to be more physical? What does the scientist said about learning? This post is the answer to some of the questions above. I adapted some idea courtesy of Mr. Alan Yip, a trainer from Singapore. Brain Based Research We often wonder, does intelligence affected by the size of the brain. An average brain weighs 1.36 kilogram and Einstein’s brain weighed 1.23. As one of the most intellectual person on the planet, Einstein has smaller brain size than the average people, so we can conclude that it’s not about the size but it’s about how you use it. How about gender? In our brain we have what we called Corpus Callosum, a connecting tissue between both sides of the brain. Surprisingly, female has 25% larger tissue than male. It’s believed that female can do multitasking while man can only do one thing at a time. Male Pre-Frontal Cortext (the center of command in our brain) matures at the age 30, while in woman, this cortex matures earlier at age 25. It gives effect to male that they usually has short attention span, more impulsive and delaying things. Another good findings in the brain research is that female brain use two part of brain to process words, while man only use left brain to do verbal processing. Therefore female tend to talk and has larger vocabularies, while male tend to be more straight forward when talking. Social Emotional Differences Hormones play a vital role in controlling our emotion which will affect our social relationship with others. While testosterone is responsible to make boys not good in processing emotion, more competitive and express their emotion through action, Oxytoxcin hormones in girls makes them to be more social, is more emotional and use this to feel, see details and more expressive in words. As parents or educator, we can use this as strategy to be more effective with our approach to the kids or students. Boys like to to do active games, therefore we gave them active game that involves physical, teach them how to control feeling through competition and sport and use more pictures when introducing concept. With girls, it looks like a bit easier because the oxytoxcin hormone also create girls to be able to tolerate boredom, like to please others and like to bond with others. But once girls get hurt, then they will carry this the whole time, therefore teaching them to feel happy ab out themselves, others and everything around them is crucial for girl. Girls are more fragile with emotional feeling that is asily affected by what happen surrounds them. It’s important for parents to build more confident, self esteem, open communication, survival skills, to give safety for their insecurity. Understanding and Helping Our Kids By understanding these differences, we could take the best of them and give the best for them. Here are some things that we can do to help them learning. Association We can do this game by choosing one topic and ask the kids to call out any related words. It’s best way to start learning. This strategy is similar to what we called brainstorming. It starts with what styduents know (prior knowledge). This will enhance creativity, increase speed of thinking, activate prior knowledge. There are some rules of this game, where you don’t give judgement, play with them, and do not over do it. VAK (Visual Auditory Kinesthetic) Understand how they learn best. Based on research 70-75% percent of students are visual . if we use the right strategy then it will improve the students learning. Some of VAK strategy including Body spelling, use body gesture to write, flash card, draw first before write, use music to stimulate feelings, use all senses to boost our ability. Smart Learning This strategy related to language acquisition. It’s believed that people who have more words could have bigger chance to be more successful. Increasing word power is significant. Some strategies you can do is by having words journal to keep new words daily, have our kids to read aloud, listen to music also increase vocabularies. 3 Conditions to remember Respect your children As parents or teachers we need to respect our kids, as we expect them to respect us. When they have problem we need to hear without interrupting. Listening to them doesn’t mean that we always agree, we could say our concern after listening about theirs. Set Clear and Fair Rules When children making mistakes, avoid to give punishment. Giving logical consequences to things that they probably do wrong will be more effective and beneficial for their growth. To set the rules, you will need to have clear and open discussion about this and ensure that both you and your kids understand what are the expectation. Praise their effort Whenever student making effort give we need to praise them. However there are some conditions when giving praise could be misleading. Under praise could also be dangerous for our kids. When praising we should focus on their effort, instead of only focusing on their intellectual achievement like “Well done”, Excellent or “Good Job” . Effort praise may include suggestion for improvement i.e. “Keep trying, you may do …”, it’s good that you have started, you can do better if…” After all, all kinds of praise should be delivered using positive emotion. This post is based on research and study about gender and learning theory. We are aware that gender could be bias; therefore in this case we are more generalizing rather than stereotyping. Overall, it aims to help us as parents or educator to improve their learning. As part of school commitment to keep updating the staff with current knowledge and skills from the latest educational research, we conducted two days in-school workshop on February 14th and 15th, 2014. Besides, this workshops also aimed to support teacher’s professional development in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom. There were three workshops run in parallel on those 2 days,led by three official IB workshop leader coming from other IB schools across the region. We have Assessment in the Early Years led by Katie Bowen from Thailand; Concept Based Learning led by Jacqui Patrick from Jakarta; and Teachers as researchers led by Richel Dungit from Jakarta. Each workshop is designed specifically to address the needs for the development of the IB program in our school. We had these three options for teacher to choose which workshop that suit their needs at most. The format of the workshop is to engage the participants in active learning with some practical sample to be used and adapted in their classroom practices directly. Many things to learn from the workshop which help the school to improve the implementation of the program and have positive impact on daily teaching and learning process. This opportunities of professional development is an on-going process, as we are all a community of life-long learners. The concept-based learning workshop gave opportunities for teachers to deepen their understanding of concepts, as well as to review Sekolah Ciputra Programme of Inquiry to make sure that all Unit of Inquiry really lend itself to develop students inquiry and enable the students to share their learning through the conceptual lens.
By Yan Yulius If you are an educator, have passion in writing and sharing knowledge and are enthusiastic with technology, I recommend you to join this workshop. We will discuss some basic information about writing, blogging, teaching and learning through online media; plus some tips and testimony from a teacher writer of kompasiana.com, harian Surya, and many more. Please follow the instruction given below and feel free to ask any question to the presenter during the course later. Before we start, you may write any queries about blogging in education in this inquiry sheet document -- NOW, Let's start the session!! -- TASK 1 >>> Click this >> link << and follow the instruction to do the task. Be ready to discuss! There are lots of other top earning blogs in the world ; if maybe profit is one of the motivations that can encourage you to start writing blog posts. Now a question for you as an educator, What will be the benefits that blogging could have for your career as a teacher? TASK 2 >>> Brainstorm the benefit of blogging in education using this document Brainstorm Benefit of Blogging -- Discussion Time!! -- TASK 3 >>> To get more information about the reason why blogging is important for you as individual or as an educator, you can study the resources below, chose which one suits you: -- Discussion Time!! -- TASK 4 >>> Now, if you already feel motivated, let’s learn how to create a good blog. You can read some tips below by choosing which one that best describes your need:
One and only suggestion from me is simply “Just do it” . I know that it must be hard to start writing for the first time but trust me, once you start writing in a blog you will get used to it and develop a sense just like writing a diary. When writing, you might think about it as your ongoing reflection. You will be surprised by the outcomes later, only if you do it consistently. TASK 5 >>> Final task for you is to write a post under the theme "Blogging in Education". You might discuss more specific topic based on that general theme. Don't forget to publish and share it with your colleague via email or social media, once you finish your blog post. -- This is the end of the PD -- Before you leave this page, you might want to have a look at some links below which might be useful to help you building your blog. You can also post your comment or question about this PD in the comment box. Finally, I would like to congratulate and welcome you to be part of a "true" community of learner. Resources and References: To help you building your first blog or website, here are some platforms to use:
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To post an article on mass online media, you might refer to this websites: More list of great educational blogs: A Recap from IB Asia Pacific Conference 2013 in Kuala Lumpur: Summary from Keynote Sessions By Yan Yulius PYP Coordinator at Sekolah Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia Recently I had a chance to attend another regional conference held by IB Asia Pacific office and this time it took place in Kuala Lumpur. The venue was chosen for the first time after Singapore held the event for several years already. It definitely gave different atmosphere and vibe to the event, especially people who come to the conference can also do tourism visits to some interesting places around Kuala Lumpur. It’s a nice city, better if I had to compare to big cities in Indonesia. However, I saw lots of Indonesian around the city and made me felt like home. Talking about the conference itself, I think I would rate it as an average. There were some factors that made me think like that such as: the rooms/ venues for the breakout sessions, the compact schedule which I think there were too many sessions in one day, and also the quality of some presenters. In this writing, I would like to share my notes and thoughts of the keynote sessions that I attended. Thursday, March 21st 2013 Keynote speaker 1: Prof. Sohail Inayatullah Shaping the future: Visioning 2030 The first keynote speaker is Professor Sohail Inayatullah who is an expert of future studies. I never heard future studies before but I think it would be interesting to see how IB education will see the future from the perspective of this expert. He opened his speech with some facts about today’s society which is sometimes overwhelmed with too much reality and starts to think about entering the unknown of the future. He stated many times that the future is asset, resource and narrative. There were so many changes happen nowadays and will continue to happen in the next following years or decades such as: more women lead important role/ organization , climate change (which relate to one of UOI theme at most IB schools), and the possibility of animal rights to protect biodiversity. Animal Rights…? Yes, animals will be projected to have its own rights and protected by law in the future. So how do we learn about the future? He proposed some ideas, firstly of course we need to predict, then to be interpretive or to understand perspective. The next step is to be critical with the current issue which might affect future and the last one is do action learning for shaping the future, at least our own future. Now, can you imagine what will happen in 2030? Imagine these: library in the future 2025, where human can directly download content to the brain; development of vitro meat- human-made protein in food; flat world where people connect to each other easily; artificial intelligence; chealthy cities; demographic shift; transparent brain where you can use your brain to control technology; everything is hyperlink; and of course the rise of Chindia for their science and technology. So how the school will be in 2030? If I use metaphors the school with industrial terminology: it should be like smart shopping center where learner could choose and has so many options for their learning. School should apply customer co- create system, where the learner could negotiate the curriculum with the school. So how do we prepare for the future. First step, just imagine, because imagination matters. Presenter’s suggested site: www.meta-future.org Friday, March 22nd 2013 Keynote speaker 2: Ben Walden Inspirational Leadership: an inspiration from Shakespeare's literature On the second day of the conference, Ben Walden was chosen to open the day with his keynote speech. He is an English actor who is currently promoting leadership education through the screenplay of William Shakespeare’s literature. In this session he used Henry V, one of famous Shakespeare literatures, to deliver concept of inspirational leadership. Once again, he started his speech with a quote "Imagination is more important than knowledge" – Einstein, which I thought that imagination has strong emphasis in the conference. He mentioned again that imaginative quality is vital. As educator, teachers have to understand what we are educating them for. He also stated a classic quote “Managers do things right, Leaders do right things”. In relation with school community need to be inspired with the act of leadership by administrator and by teacher. At this point, the core of leadership according to the talk is spotting talent of others. So what is the different between vision and strategic target? In vision you should not have measurable target unlike the strategic plan. This target can be deficit to inspire community. Somehow, I think that this statement is correct, if we only targeting the school community to do things just like what we plan then we are only bunch of boring managers attempting to achieve targets. Without vision, school community would not courage, motivation and inspiration to go forward. Another interesting ideas proposed by Ben Walden was 4 Concepts of Leadership Potentials divided by two masculine and feminine qualities: Good King – who works based on order, Warrior - who is action oriented, Great Mother – who is nurturing, Medicine Woman – who works for change. He asked audience to reflect which one style that we most and least prefer with. I got myself as Great mother for the most preference style and Warrior for the least. Well, I was worried that I am too feminine, but Ben mentioned clearly that these qualities are not merely for specific gender; instead these qualities are general and can be applied to anyone of any sex. Then, we discussed about the problems that might come up if we are having too much preference in one learning style, which I found also interesting. This idea could tell us that if we are conscious of it and aware the consequences, we have choice. At the end of the session, he told story of Henry V about his leadership qualities who could inspired his army to fight against the opponent whose much more army (which I found similar with a movie “300” by Zack Snyder). One thing that I remembered the most is that a leader could take some times alone to think and reflect, without a need to be always there and fight in front. Finally, Ben Walden acted the inspirational speech of Henry V, which was touching and really inspired me to apply these leadership skills and shared with others when I come back to school. Saturday, March 23rd 2013 Keynote speaker 3: Prof. Paula Barrett Teaching for Resilience “You wander room to room hunting for diamond necklace that is already around ur neck" Rumi - 13th century, Persian poet That was a quote that Prof. Paula used to open her keynote. She is a an expert in the field of child psychology and owned FRIENDS program which propose the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression. She used the quote to emphasis the idea that most people don’t have confidence to share their mental health problem with others. One thing that I agreed about her statement was that physical health problem is not stigma; but mental illness is. Common people would think that mental health problem are not the subject that you would share with other people freely; unlike the physical which is easier to share even to people who we don’t really know. Surprisingly, bsed on her research, there were 1 of every 5 pole experience anxiety or depression. She defined anxiety as excessive worry which also relate to physical disruption such as stomach ache, headache. Some people called it “perfectionism”. Somehow, I could use this knowledge to reflect to myself and felt like really helpful for me to understand more about my mental health. In the context of school, you can say that 1 of every 5 students in your class experienced anxiety and definitely it needs prevention which is long term. The best investment that you can do for prevention will be embedding social and emotional skills in the school curriculum. Again, the presenter asked the audience to have vision to the future; Prof Paula mentioned that in the next 30 years, peole will spend more money to deal with mental problems/ anxiety and obesity/ diabetes. To overcome the mental health problem, she proposed an idea of resilience, which she defined as the ability to bounce back in the face of adversity. Furthermore, she discussed about the factors that could affect mental health. The risk factors are physiological sensitivity, neurological growth and Life events. She mentioned that the growth of children from teen up to age 21-25 is the most risky age for experiencing depression and anxiety. While I couldn’t agree more that life events really have significant impact on someone psychology. These include breakdown family, peer pressure, marriage, work problems and much more daily life experience which happened day to day. The good news are there are protective factors. One important thing that I got is about attachment means that every human being needs affection from at least 1 person in their life. In school context, teacher is one of the closest person who students could attach to, though teachers still needs to have professional space between him/herself and the child. Another thing I learn is that we can definitely teach attention style or mindfulness by looking at the detail of students habit in learning and doing their daily task. Thing that I found a bit cliché is be positive thinker; it’s true but it’s extremely hard to do. It’s interesting to hear a statement from Prof. Paula about how you can identify and determine people happiness from the wrinkle on their face when they gets old. Physical and social enhancement would be the next factors that might affect mental positively. And the last one is prevention program which can be embedded in school curriculum, in this case she proposed a program to teach about resilience called FRIENDS program, which is used worldwide. Professor Paula Barrett ended he session with another quote ”Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall” - Confusius 500 BC, China. Suggested site by presenter: www.pathwayshrc.com.au and a movie www.thehappymovie.com Recently I got another chance to present the workshop about "Multiliteracy in Digital Era" to the elementary sekolah ciputra teachers. I had presented this during the last IB dunia workshop on last November, in Jakarta, but because I have to do it again without my partner, so I need to give this workshop a little twist. I tried to put more practical sample of activities or tools that teachers can use in the classroom. And this post is the explanation about that workshop experience. RATIONALE Learning is about constructing meaning and in order for students to construct meaning and deep understanding of the complex content from various elements in PYP curriculum, we need multiliteracy skills. In 21st Century, multiliteracy is enhanced and advanced because of technology evolution. However, educators need to make principled changes in the way we think and in the delivery of our content. It is time for teachers to take advantage of those aspects of changing technologies and begin using digital tools through effective strategies to enhance the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. Some aspects covered in the workshop: 1. What does it mean to be multiliterate educators? The workshop will reveal the definition and understanding of multiliteracy to improve student’s learning and how it is relevant with or even enhancing the delivery of PYP curriculum. 2. The use of technology to enhance the learning skills The workshop model effective strategies for responding to issues in the academic environment including the use of technology and information overload. It also offers some practical sample of how web 2.0. tools can be used more effectively and appropriately in the classroom. WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS Tuning in I opened the workshop with video clip below and I asked the group to convey the meaning of the video by using "Video Analyzer" worksheet. In the worksheet, I asked the participants to analyze video by looking at three different modes; visual, audio and text modes., which at the same time they were experiencing the multiliteracies itself. Finding info and Sorting out To answer the question "What does it mean to be multiliterate educator?" I used the web 2.0. Go Animate! to help presenting the idea of changing of education and how it's related to multiliteracies. I also explained that GoAnimate is one example that you can use to promote or encourage mutiliteracies, for students to present their knowledge, beside text based. I created this animation below using GoAnimate! 2 Phones talk over 21st century education by ynina_1802 on GoAnimate
Animated Presentations - Powered by GoAnimate. In the discussion about multiliteracies we also discuss the following aspects:
http://animoto.com/play/drAwyq1HRhbFT7Ly91PjrQ Sorting out To get deeper understanding about how multiliteracies can be applied and also what are the consquences that teachers have to go through, I made an online book explaining about the growth of communication using www.storyjumper.com . From the book the audience were asked to analyze the effects of the changing information and technology using black hat and yellow hats. Later on the discussion lead to the understanding about the the pitfalls of technology, or the problem with the ICT evolution or which we called multiliteracies. You can download the worksheets I used in the workshop at the bottom of this post page. Going further After the teachers/ participant explained about the positive and negative effects of multiliteracies, we come up with discussion about the what we can do to overcome that pitfalls or problems. Some strategies include managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. A multiliterate teacher understands the many ways that technology interacts and intertwines with academic and interpersonal life, and actively learns how to gain control over those aspects impacting teaching, social, and professional development. Reflection How about us as educator? do you think we are multiliterate and is able to overcome this problem? One video about information overload and the problems with multitasking or multiliteracies was really engaging and thought provoking> terefore I used this to close the session and to underline that even if we have technologies, we as eduator still need to have control over those aspects. When you have too much of good things, sometimes all you need to do is just to UNPLUG!
BY Merry Inggarwati and Yan Yulius
Learning is about constructing meaning and in order for students to construct meaning and deep understanding of the complex content from various elements in PYP curriculum, we need multiliteracy skills. In 21st Century, multiliteracy is enhanced and advanced because of technology evolution. However, educators need to make principled changes in the way we think and in the delivery of our content. It is time for teachers to take advantage of those aspects of changing technologies and begin using digital tools through effective strategies to enhance the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. Some aspects covered in the workshop: 1. What does it mean to be multiliterate educators? The workshop will reveal the definition and understanding of multiliteracy to improve student’s learning and how it is relevant with or even enhancing the delivery of PYP curriculum. 2. The use of technology to enhance the learning skills The workshop model effective strategies for responding to issues in the academic environment including the use of technology and information overload. It also offers some practical sample of how web 2.0. tools can be used more effectively and appropriately in the classroom. Start with your Inquiry Questions about Multiliteracies. Post it on our wallwisher or on polleverywhere.com
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