A 12 Years Old Player Piano (The interest)

There are so many reasons why both adults and children benefit from the study of a musical instrument. Music brings us so much happiness to our life. It is important to be given the chance to make music because it can give us an emotional and creative outlet. Playing an instrument is an excellent source of pleasure and fulfillment. It can provide a deep sense of satisfaction.The piano provides both melody and harmony. Therefore, it can be played individually without any accompaniment. It has been proved that children and adults who take part in musical activities are happier and more sociable than those who don’t. Playing the piano provides a readymade opportunity to perform.

Cinta Angelica is a beautiful little girl from Ambarawa. She likes playing piano. She always plays it everyday. Since 9 years old, she has been playing piano. Cinta very likes piano. Every at 5 pm after she goes back from her school, she always goes to the piano class. Cinta first joined a competition, when she was 10 years old in an Indonesia Piano Competition 2014 (IPC). She has an experience when she did the first performance in a big stage. Cinta was very nervous and afraid. She did not believe that she would become the winner.

“I do not trust myself, when I saw people who were playing piano better than what I did.”

There were 5 juries from teachers and musicians in the competition. She was afraid if she made a mistake in front of many people when she was playing the piano.

“I felt nervous when I knew the juries are musicians, my foot shock. However, when my turn I tried to be relax so I could play piano”.

 She was very shock when she knew she got an “Award of Outstanding Performance”.

“I cannot believe that, I get this award. This is my first experience to join a competition and I get an award from this competition”.  

She was very happy and she was interested to join the other competition again. After one year, she joined again in Indonesia Piano Competition 2015. In this competition, she got the second winner. Although she was felt nervous because other pianist were more expressive than her, but she still wanted to try to be a good pianist. She wants to become the first winner in a competition. Until now she always joins many competitions from  her piano class. The challenge  when she play piano is, when her teacher gives an assignment with a quick tempo and she should make a new tone. Her motivation to playing piano is, to make others feel happy with her performance.

If you have a talent, you must develop it and do not feel satisfy quickly. God has given you potential to make your life more colorful. We should use it to make people around us happy and also use our potential to do positive things.

The Quality System Education In Indonesia

The government needs to pay attention about quality of education.

Jessyka Lusiana Dolok Saribu
112015080

The quality systems of curriculum in Indonesia make feel nauseous. 

The curriculum in Indonesia is different with curriculum in other countries. Indonesian try to follow the quality system of curriculum from other countries, but Indonesia still has many problems to apply the system from other countries. The Government has budgeted over IDR 829 billion, and this budgeted for infrastructure such as teachers training, buildings, books, etc to make the learning process better. The education system in Indonesia does not encourage independent, creative thought but focuses more on learning by rote. Discipline is strict, commendation little and many students are expelled for what in the western world we would consider slight misbehavior. The Government needs to improve the quality of curriculum system in Indonesia.

The curriculum in Indonesia always changes every 5 years, and this can make the students be confused with their subjects. They will have many difficulties to follow the new curriculum that makes their result of study become nasty. The curriculum that always changes, also make the students lose their times to play. Because, the new curriculum usually increase time to study. According to (Azumardi Azra,2006) explained that change of curriculum had affected the national education system of Indonesia it had not only affected the learning climate in the classroom, but the readiness of the principal and subject teachers in efforts to understand and apply the curriculum in practice.

 Not all teachers know how to use internet. In this new area, technology already develops. The teachers should use internet to teach their students, but the teachers who are already old will feel difficult to learn about internet. On the other hand, teachers should make the teaching process with a technology to attract the attention of students. (Bernie Poole 2012) “Every teacher should be familiar with presentation software such as PowerPoint because they can use it for makes students interested and also make students easily to understand the topic. Teachers also should make an online discussion group, where teachers get together in an open e-forum to share ideas about teaching and learning”.

The government needs to pay attention to infrastructure and facilities in school.  Schools do not supply library and books, so students cannot access books easily. Students also do not have a comfortable classroom to study. Students use the classroom that’s the roof is leaking. They do not have enough tables and chairs to study in classrooms. Government has given a lot of money to make infrastructure and facilities in Indonesia became better. Although the government already budgeted money, but most all schools have not yet got. (Anis Baswedan, 2013) “The standard of infrastructure and facilities are the criteria regarding a study room, projector, computer, libraries, laboratories, places of recreation as well as creative and other learning process, including the use of information and communication technology” (Muhammad Hamid, 2013)“Furthermore, the number of qualified teachers is still not evenly distributed in rural areas. According to the Director General of Primary Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Muhammad Hamid, many elementary schools (SD) in Indonesia face a serious shortage of teachers.  The amount is estimated to reach 112,000 teachers”.

If the curriculum in Indonesia always changes and there are not enough infrastructures, so the education system will be worse because the students and also the teachers will be confused to follow the rules. Therefore, the quality development of curriculum system will give profound impact for a better education system in Indonesia.

Reference:

Arza.A (2006). The National Curriculum Of Indonesia and its Change. UKessays. Retrieved November, 15, 2016, from https://www.ukessays.com/essays/education/the-national-curriculum-of-indonesia-and-its-changes-education-essay.php

Poole.B. (2012, May, 10).  What Every Teacher Should Know About Technology. Education world. Retrieved November, 15, 2016, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech227.shtml

USAID.(2013). Reflections on education in Indonesia. USAID. Retrieved October, 20, 2016, from http://www.prestasi-iief.org/index.php/english/feature/68-reflections-on-education-in-indonesia

The Quality System Education In Indonesia. Headline

The government needs to pay attention about quality of education. Position

The quality systems of curriculum in Indonesia make feel nauseous. Hook/ headline

The curriculum in Indonesia is different with curriculum in other countries. Indonesian tried to follow the quality system of curriculum from other countries, but Indonesia still has many problems to apply the system from other countries. The Government has budgeted over IDR 829 milliard, and this budgeted for infrastructure such as teachers training, buildings, books, and etc to make a learning process better. The education system of Indonesia does not encourage independent, creative thought but focuses more on learning by rote. Discipline is strict, commendation little and many students are expelled for what in the western world we would consider slight misbehavior. The Government needs to improve the quality of curriculum system in Indonesia.

The curriculum in Indonesia always change every 5 years, and this can make the students be confused with their subjects. They will have many difficulties to follow the new curriculum that makes their result of study become nasty. The curriculum that always changes, also make the students lose their times to play. Because, the new curriculum usually increase time to study more for students at school (Sahabat Geografi, 2012) “The existence of an increase in and the balance soft skills and hard skills that includes aspects of the competency attitude, skills, and knowledge. Curriculum also incriminates students, because the students get many subjects. Also, they have limits of a maximum of time concentration in learning”.

 Not all teachers know how to use internet. In this area, technology already develops. The teachers should use internet to teach their students, but the teachers who are already old will feel difficult to learn about internet. On the other hand, teachers should make the teaching process with a technology to attract the attention of students.(Maria M, 2014) “Teachers should make a process learning became fun and no boring for students. Teachers can using power point, and other sites and give assignment to students that makes students learn how to use the internet”.

The government needs to pay attention with education is about infrastructure and facilities in school. Schools don’t supply library and books, so students can’t access books easily. Students also do not have a comfortable classroom to study. Students using the classroom whose roof is leaking. They don’t have enough tables and chairs to study in classrooms. Government has given a lot of money to make infrastructure and facilities in Indonesia became better. Although the government already budgeted money, but most all schools have not yet got. (Anis Baswedan, 2013) “The standard of infrastructure and facilities are the criteria regarding a study room, projector, computer, libraries, laboratories, places of recreation as well as creative and other learning process, including the use of information and communication technology” (Muhammad Hamid, 2013) “Furthermore, the number of qualified teachers is still not evenly distributed in rural areas. According to the Director General of Primary Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Muhammad Hamid, many elementary schools (SD) in Indonesia face a serious shortage of teachers.  The amount is estimated to reach 112,000 teachers”. 

If the curriculum in Indonesia always changes and there are not enough infrastructures, so the education system will be worse because the students and also the teachers will be confused to follow the rules. Therefore, the quality development of curriculum system will give profound impact for a better education system in Indonesia.

Reference:

Sahabat Geografi. (2012,5,9). Curriculum change in indonesia: A critical review.Sahabat Geografi. Retreview Oktober, 13, 2016, from http://pendidikangeo.blogspot.co.id/2013/01/curriculum-change-in-indonesia-critical.html

Margaretha.M. (2014, November, 2013)  Guru perlukah  menguasai TIK? Perlu. Kompasiana. Retreview Oktober,13,2016, from http://www.kompasiana.com/apfiamariamargaretha.blogspot.com/guru-perlukah-menguasai-tik-perlu_54f3e3c07455137a2b6c8280

USAID.(2013). Reflections on education in Indonesia. USAID. Retreview Oktober, 20,2016,from http://www.prestasi-iief.org/index.php/english/feature/68-reflections-on-education-in-indonesia

Jessyka Lusiana Dolok Saribu

112015080

(Introduction)

The Government needs to improve the quality of curriculum system in Indonesia. The curriculum in Indonesia is different with curriculum in other countries. Indonesia try to follow the quality system of curriculum from other countries, but Indonesia still has many problems to apply the system from other countries. The Government has budgeted over IDR 829 milliard, and this budgeted for infrastructure such as teachers training and books. The education system of Indonesia does not encourage independent, creative thought but focuses more on learning by rote. Discipline is strict, commendation little and many students are expelled for what in the western world we would consider slight misbehavior. 

 My Summary "Weblogs For Use ESL Classes"

In this paper “Weblogs For Use With ESL Classes’’ (Aaron Patric Campbell, 2003).

Blog is an online journal to share his or her own words, ideas, and thoughts through software. They just need to using the blog and  published to Internet. All basic document formatting, like spacing, bold, italics, underline, and creating links, requires no knowledge of HTML or FTP (File Transfer Protocol), anyone who can type, copy, and paste can create and maintain a weblog. Tutor Blog is a kind to learn student about the blog, and to using this blog and share their ideas, etc. Learner blog is a Individual blogs who can be used as a journal for writing practice someone. There is also class blog to created the students are writing and learn about something. Also  many choices to choose weblog software which have different features: whether it should be installed or not. The three types of weblog can be interested to practitioners. To draw an attention the potential of weblogs must support ESL classroom-based learning.

Medan_Is my  own town 

         

  I love staying in Medan because of these reasons. First of all, there are many malls there, such as Medan Mall and Center Point. In the mall, we can buy clothes and food. Second, Medan also has many traditional food like "Bika Ambon and Tauco". Bika Ambon is a cake and the color is yellow and Tauco is a peanut. Third, Medan has many buildings and 2 international airports. Polonia Airport and Kualanamu International Airport. While, Medan has many transportation and make a problem with traffic jam.
Many cars and motorcycle stopped in a road side. This is also the reason why the weather in Medan is very hot.