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What We Believed as Kids

15.17



So guys, now I'm doing a listing of what we believed when we were kids. 

Since I don't have any idea of what kind opening I'm supposed to write, let's just start listing 'em! *Ehm..

1. We could hear the sea wind sound through a sea shell. 



By sticking the shell's hole on one of our ears, even though we're on the peak of a mountain or in the middle of a desert, magically, we could hear the sea wind sound through the shell. 

As a kid I found that it was very interesting and magical. I collected many shells of different shapes just to figure out whether each shell would give me different sea wind sound or not. When I was older and became literate enough to read books, lol, I then knew it's just the sound of my surrounding wind that would surely be loud enough to hear from my ear since it crashed the inner shell's wall.

2. Red helicopters were kidnappers.


Helicopters often passed above my neighborhood when I was an elementary student. It frequently happened at around ten to twelve o'clock in which it's the time for me to get back home from school. There was a rumor that red helicopters would kidnap every kid with its big hook. I had to walk from my school to home every day. Although it's only around 500 km, it would suddenly feel so far, long and extremely dangerous if a helly passed above me! I even didn't have the courage to look up to check whether it's red or no, I'd just immediately do the most logical and smart survival action: squatting: imitating a rock, not making any move even an inch until I couldn't hear the helicopter's sound. 

It was so funny to think about this issue now. Seriously, if it was true, then who were the people inside the helly? Why did they want to kidnap kids? And why should it be from a helly and why was it a red one? Maybe it was rumor and there wasn't any kidnapper helly around us but now when I'm older and not afraid of hellys anymore, I have never seen the red ones. Maybe they never exist that's why people made up that kidnapping rumour or do they? *evil grin*

Oh once more, why did helicopter often passed above our neighbourhood when we were kids but now it doesn't? It may be just my assumption, but I think it's because of the government at that time, as we know that besides a tyrant, our president at that time was a paranoiac, the function of the helicopters were probably to control and spy whether there were kind of separation movements or not in the country. #Scary 

3.Pocketing pebbles could prevent us from pooping!


Actually this statement isn't totally a lie. When I was still an elementary student until I was a high schooler, I often practiced this tip that I didn't know from whom I got it. This tip spread like a virus. When I had scout camps, it was always hard to find toilets, even we could find one, most of all the toilets were creepy, dirty, and had little lighting. if I got the "call" in the evening, I'd rather finding two or three pebbles, and voila, I could hold the desire to poop 'til morning. That's awesome. Now if I recall about it, I am eager to know how that can happen. Do you have any idea?

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How to Deal with difficult Students?

16.11


Just a while ago, I had a job test in some English course. It was a good experience. Actually I didn't really want to go in the first place since I kind of pulled myself out (and still) of teaching stuffs because of this and that. I also haven't brushed up on my English so I was kind of pesimictic about my result. After finally going to the place and taking the test, I didn't expect much about passing the test. There were some words in the test that I fully didn't understand (and still. I planned to look them up in the dictionary as I got home but I've already forgotten them, -ps. it happens often-) so I ended up picking random answers, lol. But surprisingly I did well on the first test which was a TOEFL test in which I then passed to the next round.

In the next round, I was quite nervous because I was only given 5 minutes to prepare my presentation, I'm never good at speed in any kind of stuffs except motor riding, lol.  To talk to the people who have better English skills always makes me nervous. Hence, my speech wasn't really good; I know I made many grammar mistakes and it took ages to find what were the suitable words for what I was thinking. I had to present my thought aboout how I deal with difficult students. My solutions of how to deal with difficult students were taken from my teaching experiences.

Most of students distract the teaching-learning process by chatting with the others, sleeping in the class, and playing with their gadgets or unrelated-to-the-learning stuffs. But we can't simply give warns to the students before knowing these three things:
1. Their names
2. What's their problems
3. What do they want

Knowing each student's name is very essential. You can't just say (or shout) "Hey, you, keep silent!". By knowing their names, you can start your warning by calling them first, like "Andy, Rona, pay attention, please." So Andy and Rona will know that you know them, I always think that students are being difficult in order to catch attention. So here they will understand that you know, recognize and regard them, not to mention, respect to them. Don't be arrogant just because you are older, more intelligence or more experienced than the students so you think you don't need to respect and know them. That's totally wrong!

Chatting with the others is maybe the less trouble some, what if the students are busy with their gadget or stuffs that have nothing to do with the teaching-learning process at that day? That's a problem, and the solution is actually simple: seize their stuffs. You just need the right excuse and reason why you do so. Say that playing with their stuffs is not allowed during the period, (of course you have to make this as a part of your teaching-learning contract with your students in the beginning of the year) so you have to take their stuffs until they have well behaved. Simple, isn't it?

We sometimes call children angels, that's right! They're pure, cute, and innocent just like angels. But do you know the other thing about angels? They're never weary and they have no feelings. So don't think children are angels in that way. Just like us, they can also be tired, sad, or sleepy sometimes, somewhere, including in our class. If they're bored, figure out what they want. I don't say that you have to give everything they want. What if they say they want to go home? Or worse, they want the moon? Lol. Listen to them first and they will listen to you. You give, you receive. After listening to them, conclude what's the best offer you can give to boost their spirit up. Actually if students are bored, it means that they need some fun, try to ask them to sing, dance, or do some movements with you for some minutes. If they're sleepy, ask them to dance with you or do some stretching or wash their face, if they need to. Some lessons maybe are very tiring so never prohibit students to bring drink and drink during the session, choose plain water because if it's spilled, it's easy to mop up and less troublesome.

And those are my thought about the way I deal with the difficult students.