Parent, Student, and Teacher

Today is the first time for me have three way conference. This is the time for parent to communicate with teachers in front of their child to know what child has done and learn during the semester. In this meeting, teachers communicate the progress of child and parent shares their expectation to their child. The child have time to reflect what they have done during the lesson. The meeting is held to support the development of child because parent and teachers have the same paradigm to support child.

there are a lot of expectation that parent share, here some of them :
1. Become confidant. Teacher and parent make a commitment to improve child confidant so that the child is more confidant to speak in front of new people.
2. Can speak English well (improving language area). Teacher and parent have a commitment to encourage the child so that the child can communicate well in mother tongue and start to improve foreign language.
3. Can be concentration . Some of the children have little problem with concentration. Teacher and parent decided to apply the differentiation of learning according learning style of child.
4. Have good self esteem. some of the children have to improving their self esteem so that they can stand on their own. Teacher and parent have to help children to express their feelings and help them to respect their self and others in balance.

By this meeting teachers and parent are hoped to work together so that the children can improve their knowledge, skills, and attitude.

First Week in Youngest Class

This Wednesday was the first day for Pre-K student to join class. There were kind of new things they brought. That day my class had new family, 3 little children. For 5 prior students, they could enjoy the class and followed the activity enjoyably. They came forward to share their activity during holiday. The youngest student kept turn around the class. Okey, that was the 'bonus' for me.

For this situation, I can see that children can study because of the habit. The students that have joined for 6 month of course different from the children who joined only for 3 days. It challenge me to adapt with new situation again.

I remembered my first experience become new teacher in pre-school 6 months ago. I had to observe my new responsibility as co-teacher, to handle class, to understand my little student FOR THE FIRST. I feel difficulties to cover all my task. I feel I can't be the part of the children. It was very difficult. I feel comfortable after 5 months. I think it was the long time to feel comfortable but I did it.

Now, I have to flexible to adapt with new situation again. I have to face with new students who have a lot of way to get what they want. I think I have to very-very flexible because I will have this situation every months in my class.

These are kind of my students' way to get what they want :
1. hold everything that can they hold to stay
2. cry and run as they can
3. don't want to sit on mat
4. run around the class
5. play on playing area
6. lay down on the mat
7. look for their attaches
8. go to toilet

They need time to know class rule and it can be happen if the teacher have right way to introduce class rule for youngest children.

Children in Research's Focus

There are a lot of research explanation about children. What we know is children are naturally curious. Now, we are talking about research's focus. Some of them are brain research, competition model, naturally language acquisition.

Brain research, researcher said that there are the differences between early bilingual and young learners. In early bilingual, children still using both right and left brain together, so that we can introduce the language. In young learners, they have used their brain as we know. The right one for abstract, music, art, etc and the left one for numbers, verb, logic, etc.

Competition model, this model explain that the children are comparing the language we give and their mother tongue. in this part, we have to careful when introduce new language for them, especially in Bahasa and English.

Naturally language acquisition, it means about holistic approaches. It is an organic process in children. Their mind will be easier to understand if they study trough their own experience.

how child explores his new world

Child is the very unique person in the world. He has his own way to see arround. In my experience, child tries to explore his new environment by using his visual. During his exploration he needs someone who makes him save, for instance his parent, grandma, or babysiter. He looks arround but his hand always keep in touch with the person who makes him save.
After that he is going to go to the place or station that he likes and play there as long as he wants. although he play in one station, he cares about the situation arround. He can use his audio to explore. He can learn by all the things arround him. he needs more time to enjoy before he can join fully in new situation. besides that, he needs readiness to join the new activity.