Damn! Why don’t you understand
this subject? It’s so easy! You’re stupid boy!
We often hear this snapping or perhaps we also have snapped
the children who did not understand the subject which we had been taught them. We
were not aware that we had labelled them as the stupid boy. Actually, this
statement make them not believe their teachers—this is called cognitive
shut down.
So, why are many children hard to understand the subjects?
There are many reasons—keen intelligence, mentality, style of learning, ect. Each
student have different keenness of intelligence with the others. Some students reading the subject
just once are understandability immedietly, and also other students need to
read the subject in many times to understand. If we know that our students have
low keen intelligence, we should help them to study hard. Mentality also affect
that the students can learn a subject easily or hard. For example, childhood
traumas, a child is difficult to learn.
The learning way among students is different. There are
students who like reading loudly and also weakly, understand the object seen, and
understand object imagined. The teachers must know how their students learn.
According to explanation above, nobody of the students is
stupid but they only do not yet know the right way of learning so that the
teachers must aware it. In this case, the teachers are not only people who
teach in school but also student’s family in home especially parents. The
question is what we have tried to become teacher who understands the student.
If not yet, let us learn and learn then practise!
If we still believe that they are stupid, we seem blasphemously because children are the creation of God and we know that God
creates humans as the best creature. As evidence, humans are given brain as the
best memory in the world. It likes we say that “the cake on the table is so bad
and not delicious”—we have humiliated the chef who make that cake. It is a
parable.
The teachers and parents must believe that each child has
talent. Munif Chatif, an expert of education in Indonesia, said that all
children are the winner. Of course we will never know all children as the
winner if we always think the winner students are the children having
mathematics smartness, reading text fluently, or having beautiful writing. It
is not enough—we must know their other intelligences.
In Theory of Multiple Intelligences, intelligences of the
people divide into eight kinds that is linguistics, mathematics,
visual-spatial, music, kinetics, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
Linguistics is abilities about reading, writing, discussion, making
argumentation and debating. Mathematics is abilities in arithmetic, logical
reasoning, and problem solving. Visual-spatial is abilities of drawing, photographing,
created sculptures, and designing. Music is abilities about singing, making
rhythm,
and hearing tones from musical instruments. Kinetics is
abilities of producing movement and equilibrium. Interpersonal is abilities to connect with relationships between people. Intrapersonal is abilities about
self recognizing deeply, having intuition and high motivation, and very
sensitive about life objectives. Naturalist is abilities to describe nature
happening, clarification, and identification.
Therefore, do not label the child who do not understand mathematics
as the stupid boy because perhaps he has ability to draw, sing, or associate. There is the child who hard associate but perhaps he is able to
dance—or there is the child who has all intelligences above. So we must omit
all negative prejudice about the stupid children. We must be optimism and
patient to educate our students so that they can learn better.
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| Having exercise in field of Gili Island |
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| Team of Kercengan |
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| Danial is reading-holic |
Note:
Catatan ini dibuat dalam bahasa Inggris juga untuk peningkatan kemampuan bahasa inggris saya. Jika ada kesalahan struktur
dan pemilihan kata, harap dimaklumi. Saya lebih senang lagi jika anda
memberikan masukan untuk memperbaiki kesalahan tersebut.Thanks!
