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.
