Developing Math Teaching

How long do you have in school? and how the method your teacher teach? Apparently all this time In the process of learning is done in schools as long as there are two differences in methods Used. They are the traditional teaching and progressive teaching. And from both methods are divided into four levels, that are the spiritual level, the normative level, the formal level and the material level.

The first is the spiritual level, this level is the highest level of the 4 other level. At this level explain the spiritual, the future, the vision, goals, and way of life. Without the spiritual, whatever lessons we can it will feel empty, the learning done to get the whole human beings, from the moral and intellectual should be balanced.

The second is the normative level, this level explained about the law education system, Decree, the paradigm of education, and the theory  of education. In this level of visible differences between traditional teaching and progressive teaching. In traditional teaching, teachers just teach and teach, give and transfer knowledge. Pupils were seen as an empty object that must be filled with knowledge and become passive. While the progressive teaching, students are given the opportunity to be active, to grow according to their ways, and construct their own knowledge. Here the teacher only as a facilitator and encouragement in the development of learning. In the past, traditional teaching is determined by the National Exam, but pda progressive teaching, determined by base classroom assessment, and the base of the process.

The next level is the formal level, the formal level to explain about books, curriculum, and syllabus. Traditional teaching only textbook-oriented, but in teaching the Progressive was developed by a teacher with appropriate competence of students. And curriculum are used in traditional teaching curriculum in 1975 and 1980 and for the present progressive teaching curriculum using KTSP.

The last the level is the the level of material, at this level be explained about the condition of the class, teach content, students, and physical condition of the building. In the traditional teaching of always using the same method, namely to explain, give examples, and gives task. But in the progressive use varied teaching methods and contextual with the students and materials.

It was an explanation about difference between traditional teaching and progressive teaching, as our teacher candidates should be able to become a progressive teacher for the development of learners.

The nature of students learn mathematics

As a mathematics education student, we must feel happy because only few of young people have chance who concerning to the mathematics education. Let alone get mathematics education at the university jogjakarta. So we must study hard for Our goal. Make sure that we are on the right track supporting by competence, facilities and family that support us to gain our goal to become a Proffesional mathematics teacher.

For teaching, as a candidate of mathematics teacher, something important engage with the younger is the different way of thinking between us and them. If we are teaching, but students are learning. We should show modern teaching who make active student. That’s why, we have to be able to master technology or IT.

To be a successful mathematics teacher is not easy. Then start from now on in life, we strive for understand ourself. It means we must understand about the our situations and our characteristics. Everybody have different characteristics so we must  need understand both ourselves and everythings around us. If we didn’t understand, we could be blind and empty. Blind meaningfull there it nothing destination. We  must fill our comprehension by hard struggling in our life. Then, we would not get blind and empty. There are many ways to enhance our ability, Presently, we can improve our ability and knowledge by search knowledge from everything, everywhere. So as a student, we should not always depend on the our lecturer

The latter is, to become a successful and proffesional teacher In the future when learning process, we should prepare something to teach. There  Lesson Plan and Student Work Sheet. We also need to understand the role of interaction. Interaction happened by subjective knowledge and objective knowledge of mathematics.

Good preparation is one way to get success. . .