kehidupan wanita muslim di arab saudi part 1

Competency Based Language Teaching

The learning activities used in CBLT can be described as systematically designed activities to achieve a certain competence. These activities are real-world tasks which may be related to any domain of life. Typical areas, for which such competency-based activities have been developed, are for example Job Application, Job Interview, or Work Schedules. All these areas can be described as a collection of units of competencies which consist of specific knowledge, thinking processes, attitudes, and perceptual and physical skills.

community language teaching

who in real life met at the teacher sets up a situation that students are likely to encounter in real life. Unlike the audiolingual method of language teaching, which relies on repetition and drills, the communicative approach can leave students in suspense as to the outcome of a class exercise, which will vary according to their reactions and responses. The real-life simulations change from day to day. Students' motivation to learn comes from their desire to communicate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics.

community language learnig

Community language learning (CLL) is the approach to develop the students in learning the language they want to learn. teachers act as counselors and phraser

Contextual Teaching Learning

Contextual learning is a learning concept which helps teachers to link learning materials to students with real-world situations and encourage students to make connections between their knowledge with the application in their daily lives with effective learning, namely: kontruksivisme (contrucsivism), asking (questioning) , find (inquiry), community learning (learning community), modeling (modeling), and the actual assessment (assessment authenthic)

HOME SCHOOLING

Homeschooling is one of those subjects where people feel it is okay to give their opinions regardless of whether it is requested or without thought of the homeschooling family’s feelings. Homeschooling is an educational choice surrounded by many myths and misconceptions. Even though this method continues to provide high national test scores and well rounded, diversely educated children, many people still do not see the virtue of this system or have a preconceived notion about what goes on in homeschooling.

Reasons for Homeschooling

As a homeschooling mother of two I am frequently asked why I homeschool. I believe that Mariette Ulrich (2008) summed up the reason why most families prefer this alternative:

I prefer to make those [educational] choices myself. Not because I think I know ‘better’ than all those professional educators, but I do think I know my own children best, and consequently which programs and methods would benefit them. Homeschooling is not about rejecting other people and things; it’s about making personal and positive choices for your own family. (1)

While statistics do not show that violence is on the rise, it is hard to ignore stories in the news relating violent school events on a regular basis. Because of these perceptions of school violence, it isn’t difficult to understand why some parents want to educate their children at home. However, this is sometimes viewed as an attempt to shelter their children. Homeschoolers understand that sheltering their children would not do any good; they will still be exposed to the violence in the world through other mediums. Nevertheless, it does help to keep them safe by keeping them away from the current trend of school violence.

While school violence is now a leading factor in many parents’ decisions there are usually many different reasons for choosing to homeschool. The statistics state that 31.2 percent of home-schooling parents say that “concern about the environment of other schools” was their primary reason for home instruction while 16.5 percent stated “dissatisfaction with the academic instruction in other schools,” 29.8 percent said “to provide religious or moral instruction,” 6.5 percent was “because the child has a physical or mental health problem,” 7.2 percent said “because the child has other special needs,” and 8.8 percent gave “other reasons” (Fagan, 2007, p. 4). For my family it was a combination of the first three reasons—academic dissatisfaction being top—along with specific incidents that led us to consideration and the practice of homeschooling.

Inquiry based Learning

"Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge  seeking information by questioning." Individuals carry on the process of inquiry from the time they are born until they die.Infants begin to make sense of the world by inquiring. From birth, babies observe faces that come near, they grasp objects, they put things in their mouths, and they turn toward voices. The process of inquiring begins with gathering information and data through applying the human senses  seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.
Some of the discouragement of our natural inquiry process may come from a lack of understanding about the deeper nature of inquiry-based learning. There is even a tendency to view it as "fluff" learning. Effective inquiry is more than just asking questions. A complex process is involved when individuals attempt to convert information and data into useful knowledge.