Stress Management For A Good Teacher

 If someone is asked to choose which one the job is the most stressful among teacher, pilot and a docter. The answer must be teacher. Teacher can be a very hard work because it is not easy to take control many people in a place. Yet, the failure that spooks the teacher himself. Here, the writer have simple tips to decline or to decrease the level of stress that the teacher have. Hopely, by practicing these tips, the teacher will be able to try to release something that can be stuffy in the teacher mind. However, we need to link to the teacher himself whether he can consider that every problem in his or her teaching is common and take it as easy as possible.

Authentic Scoring

Discovering Ability

Discovering Ability is teacher activity for roam the ability of students when the test of the students is under standard completeness. Discovering Ability also can be mean to ask students to answer the same question with other ways. If this Discovering Ability is not success, teacher can do remedial test to their students who have score under standard without through Discovering Ability phase.

Ali was a first student class in Elementary School. He got Indonesian question paper from his teacher. The question was “make a writing about garden in the back of you house”. The teacher prepared rubric score. If student write more then three sentence, the score was 10. If students just write two sentences, the score was 8 and if the students just write one sentence, the score was 7. However, if the students just write one or two words, the score was 5. The score of standard completeness was 8. In fact, Ali just answered with one word, which was “FERTILE” with the capital letter. Be knowledgeable, he did not like to write. Ali’s answer was not direct entering in final scoring by the teacher and he must do remedial test, but his teacher did Discovering Ability to him. Then, teacher asked to Ali, “Ali, can you try to tell me about your garden?” then Ali was very fluent to tell, he told many things what happened in his garden. Finally, the teacher decided to give him 10 in scoring this question. Not score 5 for answered with one word “FERTILE”.

Authentic Scoring

Test that have quality = Test that can be done

If question test that is made by a teacher is tested to students and many students can not do it as like as the standard completeness, it means the question low of quality. This concept astonishes many teachers who like to make difficult question. Many teachers still have a hunch that difficult question is good question. This point of view must be undeviating.

Difficult question precisely will impair the bounce of students to develop

Becoming A Multiple Intelligence teacher

“Teacher is a key for quality of a school”

Every element of school has big contribution for make Multiple Intelligence concept to be success. The important element is teacher. Excellent school which have concept “the best process” can success if is supported by the quality of professional teacher. Become a professional teacher it is mean become teacher who never stops learning. The big assets and very precious in a school is a teacher who have certain quality. Miriam Kronish, the headmaster of elementary school Eliot, Needham, Massachusetts which the best school in America, said in her speech “The future of education in America is determined by a power and if we have that power, it will be main program in our school that is teacher training. Teacher does not enough to read new learning method. Teacher must be done exercises; she/he is like an actor or a poet who need to practice. After that, teacher can teach other people. Professional teacher surge America in the future.”

“As good as curriculum, it is hard to success if is not walked with interesting learning strategy and gratify students”

Disteachia

Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. can apply multiple intelligences strategy well in classroom. He got many unique students who got disability learning that were transferred from normal school. The unique students were considered challenge for Thomas Armstrong. Few months later, after the students learn with Multiple Intelligences strategy, the outcome was out of estimate of any people. They were creative and smart. Finally, Armstrong decided to observe “normal school” that ever sent the unique students to him. After he had observed them, he found the teachers got DISTEACHIA or something wrong in teaching. Disteachia has three virus, they are Teacher Talking Time, Talk Analysis, and Tracking.