(George Bernard Shaw)
Everybody
knows that quote ...
And
sometimes this quote is become the best insult someone give to a teacher.
What do
they know about teaching?
None, i
believe.
Because if they know how to become THE REAL TEACHER,
they’ll keep
their mouth shut (mind my language).
Is teacher
the second best (or even the last best) profession in whole world? (hyperbolic)
Become
teacher is not easy as you think.
It’s takes
all your mind, energy, heart to it.
The
teacher is an excellent military strategist, they going for a “war”.
The moves
that they will take, is not a clumsy one. They must prepare everything.
Here’s all
an excellent military strategist should have.
1. Perfect
escape plans.
if you “tap dance” your way out of a sticky situation,
then that implies that you get out of it in a clever way.
Every
“trap” (questions) made by student, teacher should have the “escape” plan
(answers).
Have you
ever heard a story about a trapped lion and a mice?
Teacher is
the lion, student is a trap and teacher’s escape plan is the mice.
Student is
full of curiousity, they can ask you anything. Sometimes you can answer that,
sometimes you can’t answer that because not appropiate to you to answer and
finally you don’t know what the answer.
Teacher
always learning. Old and new, small and big stuff, teacher must know about it.
2. Anthropologist
in action.
Teacher
are dealing with a “savage” inlander with awesomely fighting spirit.
Dealing
with elementary student or even a teenage student is not an easy one. They got
all the energy to behave uniquely, that really need a different treatment from
the teacher.
Winning a
war is not about powering someone, but sometimes how to pursuade someone to do
your will.
Pursuade
need all the charm, sweet talk, gentleness, care and a lot of love and laugh
from the pursuader.
How can
you pursuade the student who feels that learning
is just non-sense, because he/she already have everything?
How can
you pursuade the student that just sit in the class is a torture?
How can
you pursuade the student that is an outcast either in class, school or maybe in
his/her family?
How can
you help the student that give all his/her best and still stay at the “bottom”
of the class?
Teacher
must have different personality. A clown and a cryer, a boss and a servant, a
brave and a coward, a witch and a muggle, a Superman and a Clark Kent, a noble
and a peasant. Multiple personality disorder in a good way.
How’s that
???
Can you be
like that ????
3. Modern
– sophisticated weapons.
The
weaponry the teacher carry. The weapon are the teacher research and
contemplation about the subject. How can they deliver theory based on long
period research just in maximum 2 hours period of time to student?
Easy ???
Go try
one, and let me know the answer.
4. Battle
field expert.
Do not
forget to mention, the “war zone” where the battle begins and ends. Sometimes
is friendly and sometimes is not. The war zone could be a no man’s land where
everybody fight fairly or a man’s land when you must really – really careful
with you step.
5. A
kamikaze spirit.
Sebelum
ngajar, seorang guru harus ngerti semuanya. Teorinya dan praktiknya.
Membuktikan teori yang sudah ada melalui praktikum is not easy as it looks.
Melakukan praktikum bukan hal yang mudah apalagi aman, tidak semuanya aman.
Sebelum semuanya disajikan ke murid, guru harus coba dulu. Sulit dan mudahnya
suatu materi hingga dapat dimengerti siswa, guru yang harus memberi batasan.
Apakah praktikum yang dilakukan atau tidak, guru harus coba dulu. Berbahaya
atau amannya praktikum yang akan dikerjakan, guru harus coba dulu.
Guru harus
punya jiwa kamikaze kalo mau sukses pelajaran.
As far as
I know, all teachers can do almost anything.
Just like
Bruno Mars song, Grenade, which says ...
I'd catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on the blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for
ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
See I would go through all this
pain
Take a bullet straight through my
brain
They have to get electrifying
themself before they can say how hazardous the electric is.
Do have a
gut to do that ???
Let me
know if you have it ...
6. James Bond attitude
James Bond adalah agen rahasia
fiksi yang terkenal karena hatinya yang dingin, mengutamakan selesainya tugas
dan kurang memperhatikan perasaannya sendiri.
Seorang guru harus punya attitude
kayak gini terhadap murid, maksudnya dia harus bisa keep perasaannya sendiri,
kekesalan dia sendiri, kesedihan hatinya sendiri demi tercapainya tujuan untuk
mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa.
Rasa sakit hati, sedih, panik dan
masalah – masalah yang mungkin ada dalam hidup seorang guru harus mereka simpan
dengan rapat, murid ga perlu tahu, tujuan murid adalah belajar bukan untuk
tempat curhat guru.
Ada cerita seorang murid yang
bertanya kepada gurunya.
Murid : “Miss, miss pernah panik
ga ngeliat kita yang kadang males belajar, bahan pelajaran masih banyak, tes
udah dekat?”
Guru :“Panik kok”
Muird : “Kok, ga keliatan?”
Guru : “Kalo gurunya panik,
muridnya apalagi. Trus kalo kita udah sama – sama panik, selesai tuh masalah?
Kan enggak!
Makanya sepanik – paniknya guru,
guru harus tetap tenang (keep it cool), berpikir positif dan cari cara biar tuh
anak2 bandel itu bisa diajarain belajar cepat dan ngerti dan bisa pas ujian”
Murid : “Kok bisa sih?”
Guru : “Sekali lagi belajar,
segala sesuatu bisa dicapai kalo belajar”
They have to keep smiling and
full of spirit for the student, eventhough problems lingering in their mind,
not mention the stomachache they feel during teaching.
My point is ....
TEACHER is AWESOME


