Education for All

"They are not my students, they are my kids" Many crucial issues come during the pandemic of coronavirus outbreak. Hundred of teachers, many of them have to teach-from-home for weeks. It needs a high competency to do a lot of things at the same time. Teacher has to  prepare the material to teach, make an assesment, and have a digital competency too. Meanwhile, they have their own kids at home, that need them as parents to accompany them to study. We can see who is really the professional teacher, when they have to deal with this difficult situation. Some of them have competency to teach in reguler class, but don't have the ability to teach online class. And for sure in this difficult situation with no preparation, they have to teach from home. Teacher competence always been measured as the quality of education itself.  What is the competency? Competencies are the skills and knowledge that enable a teacher to be succesful. To maximize student learning, teacher must have ex

surfer.com "Through Self Discipline comes Freedom" PLATO Something I've learned from the situation now days during the coronavirus pandemic is how to develop our self discipline. Especially when you have to work from home or study from home. For the lecturer or teachers like us, we have specific guidance about the materials that we would teach. We write a study plan of our subject and we prepare everything include our moods before we teach in online class. But, how about the students? Online learning gives the students flexibility to study anytime and anywhere. For university's students, they can manage their own time, and I believe they could do it better than students from elementary schools. The interesting one is, when the online classroom begun, most of them turn off the sound and video in their mobile devices.  Where are they, then? I hope they still listen to what the lecturer said in lecturing, of course while doing something else.  Well.. ok, I know every stu

"Everyday you have a choice, stay the same or change" Are you in a management or leadership position? Or, perhaps you moved from a specific technical position into a management or a leadership position. If so, you know that the higher you move in an organization, the more you experience increasingly complex decisions. You have a choice about how to process information and make decisions.  Many people think that decision-making is a result of personality rather than a strategic choice. With that said, leaders need to understand that personality can’t stand in the way of making critical corporate decisions. Successful leaders can alter their approach to decision-making to accommodate the demands of diverse business situations.  Four styles of decision-making: 1. Directive decision-making  A directive decision-maker typically works out the pros and cons of a situation based on what they already know. Directive decision-makers are very rational and have a low tolerance for ambigu

"Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership" John C. Maxwell The relationship of headmaster's leadership and teacher's performance always be one of the interesting topic to explore in research. Most results of those researches claimed that headmaster's leadership affects to teacher's performance. Some researches said that teachers can do their job without any intervention or involve by headmaster. The question is, how's the management can be run well without any person in charge as a leader? How important are the functions of headmaster at school? Or there is a headmaster at school, but he has no character in leading the organization.  LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTER Leadership means different things to different people around the world,  different things in different situation. For example, it could be related to community leadership, religious leadership, political leadership, and leadership of campaigning groups. Leaders help the

It was happened in 2015. When I was sitting on my colleague's office, we were talking about our schools, teachers and students. And suddenly three young students of Elementary School came into her office, they hug her tenderly. My colleague was Headmaster of Kindergarten School, and I was a Headmaster of Junior High School. We were working at the same Foundation. It was surprising me when I saw them hugging so close each other and I felt my heart was warming. My colleague told me that it happened every morning, before those students go to their school, which that school building just close by to our schools, they always come to her office first and hug her. I'm wondering why they do that? She said that all those students were her students in Kindergarten. Those kids told their parents that they didn't want to continue their school to Elementary School far from her. They said they will be missed her hugs. As we learnt about the basic needs of human to survive, Maslow's H

Most people have their own concept about leadership. Some people said that the leader must be someone who has a position in public services, could be government or private sectors. Actually, everyone is a leader, at least for himself. Just a simple example, every morning you decide, either you want to continue your sleep, or wake up and chase your dreams. You decide, what kind of dress you will wear today. Simply said, you are a leader.  But if we talking about an organization, leadership become more important because it involves many factors, such as professional knowledge and character.  In many situations, leaders have to make tough decisions. Especially when he/she faces difficult to implement those decisions in public. One of the reason why it becomes difficult, is because it would be give impact to others life itself. This is a challenge, and not easy to satisfy everyone at all. And somehow, the leaders have to take those risks. Some decisions he/she makes might be againts his/he