Friday, May 19th 2011, I got my English course. In that day, Mr. Marsigit, my lecturer, talked about “Developing Mathematics Teaching Using Progressive Teaching”. He showed the differences of traditional and progressive teaching. In showing the differences of that two methods of teaching, Mr. Marsigit difference them based on four main levels. They are spiritual level, normative level, formal level, and material level.
Mr. Marsigit explained that, “Belong to the spiritual level are spiritual, ways of life, good-bad, and functional system. Based on this level, traditional teacher gives the education as an obligation. Also the student. They study just because of an obligation, not because of their awareness. Whereas, in progressive teaching, they said that education is a need for them. So, they can be more motivated in studying, because of their awareness.”
In normative level, there’re law, decree, education system (paradigm of education and theories of education), and nature of mathematics. Based on education system, the traditional teaching, presented teaching to give, only transfering knowledge to the student. The teacher directed and controlled the student. The student just roled as empty vessel. National Examination being the final goal of this traditional teaching. Then Mr. Marsigit continued his explanation to the progressive teaching, “In progressive teaching, the paradigm of education is to construct the student’s knowledge, by themselves. So, there is a reform from traditional teaching to progressive teaching with the new paradigm. In this teaching method, the student is similar with a seed that grow and blossom out. The teacher just facilitate the student as like a farmer. The final goal of progressive teaching is classroom based assessment which is much different from national examination”. Mr. Marsigit also said that pure mathematics being the nature of mathematics in traditional teaching. Otherwise, the progressive teaching refused pure mathematics because younger learner being the learning object of this method, so it would not be pure mathematics, but school mathematics. School Mathematics, containing concret and factual problem. Ebutt and Straker (1995) defined School Matemathics as follow:
1)Mathematics is a search for pattern and relationship, enlarge the student to search pattern and relationship.
2)Mathematics is problem solving activity.
3)Mathematics is investigation activity.
4)Mathematics is a mean of communication.
That’s meaned that the nature of student learning mathematics’s motivation, collaboration, unique, and contextual. It implicated to the changing of subjective student to the objective student by input knowledge they had got, then they published it by test or other, so they would get the justification from their teacher. It made a new knowledge for them. Then, finally, they would be an objective student. It’s appropriate to the Paul Ernest opinion.
So, it could be said, that in traditional teaching the different’s only the students, because the facilites, objective, time, and result were just same with the teacher’s thinking. But, in progressive teaching, all different. Different students, different facilities, different objective, different time, and different result.
Formal level presented curriculum, syllaby, and the book as the handout of the students in learning. In Indonesia, we had known curriculum of 1975, 1980, and so on as the traditional teaching curriculum. That curriculum just orienting on content and the goal of learning. KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan), one of Indonesia curriculum that had been semi-progressive, actually could reform traditional curriculum to a progresive curriculum. In progressive curriculum, students’re expected to be active learner by student competence oriented.
Class, teaching content, book, and building could be categorized as material level. In the class, expository method as the single learning method applied in the traditional teaching, because according the traditional teaching, that’s the best way for teaching. In this method, the teacher just doing the same activity repeteadly. Explaining, giving exmple, giving problem, and giving task. Text book oriented applied by the teacher. Whereas, according the progressive teaching, there’s no the best way to educate. So, just used the various method which’s contextual to the student and mathematics. It meaned teacher should be more creative to develop their knowledge and teaching method, not only based on the text book.
That’s all the differences between traditional and progressive teaching. By knowing that, we’re expected to develop mathematics teaching by using the progressive teaching method, that’s better than the tradtional one.
Saturday 21 May 2011
Wednesday 18 May 2011
As Mathematics Education Student, We are Proud !
Friday, May 13th, 2011, I and my friend got our English course. In our English course, Mr. Marsigit, our lecturer, told about anything. In that meeting, he said that in his point of view, we should be very happy as mathematics education student. Why?
Then, he told us the reason : We should be very happy as mathematics education student because only few of young people who concerning to the mathematics education. However, as mathematics education student, we need to empower ourself. We should not to be hesitate and disappointed. We had to wake up and make sure that we’re in the right track. We should support our competence. We could use many facilities thats’s available to support our competence. To gain our goal as the mathematics teacher, we also need support from our family. And the most important’s getting understand. We should understand ourselves and everythings around us. If we didn’t understand, we could be blind and empty. Blind meaned there’s no destination. To know our life destination, we had to know the inside of ourselves and the world outside. Then, we could find the destination of our life. Whereas, empty’s, we had not anything in our life. So, we had to fill it by hard struggling in our life. Then, we would not get blind and empty.
Mr. Marsigit said that life could be defined as a character. For example, “What are you?” he asked. “You are a character who want to transform yourself to a certain characteristic. You are aware of characteristic, again and again.”
Continuing his explanation, Mr. Marsigit said, “As the adult student, you must not depend on your lecturer. Doing anything by understanding and self-awareness, not by other influence and other compulsion. You can do some exercises by your self as the adding supplement to support your goal beside the lecturer teaching. Because there are various source in learning English. Even, you can benefitted the internet facilitate that provide youtube as the video provider. From youtube, we can download many learning material video that is usefull for you.”
We, as the candidate of mathematics teacher should be proud. We had an important role to break the old paradigm about the old way on teaching. We had to renew our paradigm. Because the most difficult thing’s to show the different function of traditonal teacher and modern teacher. As the modern teacher, we had to know the different thingking of younger student and the adult student. It could be explained from the nature of mathematics iceberg. It showed some grade of mathematics learning types. They’re formal mathematics for adult student (learning postulates), model, scheme, and physics for younger student.
Teacher should prepare something to teach. The preparation of teacher could be Lesson Plan (RPP) and Student Work Sheet (LKS). Teacher also need to know the role of interaction. Interaction could make transformation from subjective knowledge of mathematics to objective knowledge of mathematics. This meaned that teacher should guarantee to improve their knowledge about mathematics from the subjective mathematics to objective one.
That’s all Mr. Marsigit explanation about mathematics education generally.
Then, he told us the reason : We should be very happy as mathematics education student because only few of young people who concerning to the mathematics education. However, as mathematics education student, we need to empower ourself. We should not to be hesitate and disappointed. We had to wake up and make sure that we’re in the right track. We should support our competence. We could use many facilities thats’s available to support our competence. To gain our goal as the mathematics teacher, we also need support from our family. And the most important’s getting understand. We should understand ourselves and everythings around us. If we didn’t understand, we could be blind and empty. Blind meaned there’s no destination. To know our life destination, we had to know the inside of ourselves and the world outside. Then, we could find the destination of our life. Whereas, empty’s, we had not anything in our life. So, we had to fill it by hard struggling in our life. Then, we would not get blind and empty.
Mr. Marsigit said that life could be defined as a character. For example, “What are you?” he asked. “You are a character who want to transform yourself to a certain characteristic. You are aware of characteristic, again and again.”
Continuing his explanation, Mr. Marsigit said, “As the adult student, you must not depend on your lecturer. Doing anything by understanding and self-awareness, not by other influence and other compulsion. You can do some exercises by your self as the adding supplement to support your goal beside the lecturer teaching. Because there are various source in learning English. Even, you can benefitted the internet facilitate that provide youtube as the video provider. From youtube, we can download many learning material video that is usefull for you.”
We, as the candidate of mathematics teacher should be proud. We had an important role to break the old paradigm about the old way on teaching. We had to renew our paradigm. Because the most difficult thing’s to show the different function of traditonal teacher and modern teacher. As the modern teacher, we had to know the different thingking of younger student and the adult student. It could be explained from the nature of mathematics iceberg. It showed some grade of mathematics learning types. They’re formal mathematics for adult student (learning postulates), model, scheme, and physics for younger student.
Teacher should prepare something to teach. The preparation of teacher could be Lesson Plan (RPP) and Student Work Sheet (LKS). Teacher also need to know the role of interaction. Interaction could make transformation from subjective knowledge of mathematics to objective knowledge of mathematics. This meaned that teacher should guarantee to improve their knowledge about mathematics from the subjective mathematics to objective one.
That’s all Mr. Marsigit explanation about mathematics education generally.
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