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Brené Brown is vulnerability researcher, storyteller.  She explained that vulnerability related to fear, shame, something that we try to hide and don’t let everyone to see it. However, she said that it is important to let yourself be seen by others, especially in a connection or relationship. She also emphasises that vulnerability can be the source of creativity, love and sense belonging. I think this is a beautiful thought and a new perspective of vulnerability that I have ever known. At the closing of her speech, she mentioned that accepting that you are imperfect make you grateful and enjoy this life. Her explanation widens my understanding that vulnerability also has a positive side in people life, and I am not the one in this big world who have shame or fear. Remembering my old days, when I was an internship teacher. I was asked to teach Physics for grade 12 in a secondary school by a senior teacher because she could not attend the class. I had a free schedule, so I decided to...

Teaching Profession Code of Conduct describes a set of principles related to the professional conduct, personal conduct and professional competence expected of a teacher by their colleagues and the community. In the first section of professional conduct, regarding the relationship with learners, one of the principles is that teachers provide opportunities for all learners to learn. Through the lens of Nodding (2012), the attempts to provide opportunities for all learners by listening to the voiced and unvoiced needs of the students and create caring relationship. The failure to listen can cause suffer for students. Therefore, caring and personal relationship is important to avoid the assumed needs and respond the expressed needs of students. Caring is not about affection and empathy; it also involves the cognitive dimension that can help students find what they love in life as key happiness besides expecting a high score in a standardised test. Then, Victorian teachers are encouraged t...

      These three articles below proposed how schools as communities are very important, and schools are deeply woven into the fabric of society. The pandemic situation changes people perspective that “the old-fashioned school” is not totally failing, and there is no need to wish them away altogether.  Schools as communities are not the only site for teaching and learning, but it helps students to create connectedness and sense of belonging among students. These feelings are important for students because it is an essential element of humanity. The report from The Australian Council for Educational Research shows that there is a correlation between sense belonging and students’ outcome. The report also reveals that sense belonging increases students’ happiness as an individual. Making a connection with others and sense belonging is vital to helping us survive as social creatures because today, we live in the loneliness age that can kill us. Even though digital s...

Aku terlalu naif mengklaim tasku adalah milikku, tasku adalah titipan banyak orang. Ada tanggung jawab untuk melaksanakannya karena ada banyak amanah dari orang-orang yang telah berdonasi di program tasku. Hari ini aku akan membuang identitas tasku dari diriku, karena tasku bukanlah milikku, tapi milikmu dan milik kita. Tidak aku salah, tasku bukanlah sebuah barang tetapi adalah sebuah jalan, wadah untuk berdakwah. Apa itu dakwah, usaha-usaha untuk menegakkan aturan Allah, menaati Allah yang dimulai dari diri sendiri, keluarga sendiri, teman sendiri dan komunitas sendiri. Kebetulan saat ini aku terpanggil dan mendapat amanah untuk memulai ini. Eh tunggu! Bukan memulai, sesungguhnya aku hanya melanjutkan apa yang orang-orang sholeh terdahulu yang sejak lebih dari 1400 tahun telah lakukan. Aku bisa digantikan kapan saja di jalan dakwah dan aku bisa saja kehilangan hidayah kapan saja. Kumohon semoga kelak coretan-coretan ini bisa menjadi pengingat mengapa aku berjuang dan melangkah sejauh...

Biarpun kamu berusaha ingin baik, kamu tidak akan mampu melakukannya sendiri. Ada "magical power" yang berkehendak mengijinkanmu untuk jadi orang baik. Biasanya kita bilang hidayah dan rahmat dari Allah SWT. Mau seisi bumi telah memfasilitasi kamu jadi orang baik, kalo hidayah Allah tak sampai padamu, you cannot make it. Jadi apa yang harus kita lakukan. Meminta pertolongan agar dimampukan jadi orang baik. Karena jadi orang jahat itu bikin hati gak nyaman, entahlah serasa ada tumpukan batu di hati ketika kita melukai diri sendiri atau orang lain. Cepat-cepat minta bantuan biar diangkatkan semua beban di hati. Hati kita memang rumit, suasana bisa berubah dengan cepat meskipun bukan karena pengaruh climate change. Dari aku, yang meminta agar selalu diberikan hati yang baik ketika keadaan terlihat serba salah. Aku butuh obat penyembuh. Aku tahu itu dimana, tetapi berat untuk mengambilnya padahal tersusun rapi di atas meja. ( Kitab As-Syifa kepunyaaku, yang ku beli saat aku duduk...

 I dont have positive energy that I can share because I try to find some strengths to get through all of this. I dont know what happen with me, but i just feel in my lowest point. I am questioning what am I doing today? What will happen tomorrow? Future life always bother me. Please let me live my life today, let me do what I can. Enjoying every mess around and make it clear. Stop scaring me! Let me finish my reading. Let me write my reflective essay. Let me enjoy the endevour of learning . I am so full of my self, don't let me do this alone, please guide me. Thinking about life when I took shower this morning I realise that life can be enjoyed when I understand what the meaning of death. I am saying this does not mean that I am tired and give up of life. I am just trying to have a meaningful life. I have gone so far but why my vision becomes blur. I hate to admit this. Then, I come back to my sense that I have another work to do beside wondering the mystery of future! Bye xxx Remi...

Are you ready to join the Slow Education movement? I would say yes to Shelley Wright about her Idea. Slow means do things in education well and at its right speed. Shelley argues that we should find out how real learning looks like and the importance to learn slowly, freely and thoroughly for kids. Shelley observes many stakeholders in education are so anxious about children nowadays, but they create an impatient system. A system that make students learn instantly, then expect them to achieve a good result printed in a piece of report paper. I agree with Shelly that education should not be like this situation and Shelley argues that education needs to be authentic. Authentic learning is meaningful learning and connect students with their community. Hence, students get an authentic goal and a role in society rather than consume-in-training by completing the worksheets and standardised tests. Shelley challenges the summative learning in education system today and promote personalized and...