Summary Teaching Journals

TEACHING 1 (MINE)

Dufera, Derebssa. 2006. Tension between Traditional and Modern Teaching-Learning Approaches in Ethiopian Primary Schools Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Vol.9/1 (p: 123-140)

Education is important contributor for growing the national economic, so the empiric can be educational investment for developing country. Education must be improved by the quality. So, the quality in the context of education means effectiveness, equity and equality. And the study will find out how far the learner-centered approach works in the Ethiopian primary schools and the difficulties of teachers while using active learning.This research focus on how the teaching process affect the quality of education in Ethiopia. The researcher will describe the quality of system in education. This research using descriptive survey method. It taken from 12 schools were purposefully selected in which 6 schools from urban and 6 schools from rural areas were included.

And it has Conceptual Framework as bellows:

1.      Understanding education quality

2.      Active learning as an appropriate teaching-learning strategy

3.      Ethiopian tradition of teaching and the employment of active learning

And this research can be conclude that most of primary school in Ethiopian is compelling and disturbing. The government faces difficulties of making sure the education quality. From this, the researcher is identifying the factors that militate against its implementation and providing recommendations on how to improve the teaching-learning process.

TEACHING 2 (MINE)

Niemi, Toom, Kallioniemi. 2012. The Finnish National Core Curriculum Structure and development, Miracle of Education. University of Helsinki (p: 1-11)

The National Curriculum here is about managing educational development in finish school system. And it contains the objectives and core contents of teaching for all subjects in school and describing about the mission, values, and structure of education. This research focus on Finland. It will show the structure and implementation. Fist is about the steering system in education of Finland and continuing by the function of finish curriculum. So, people have to know about the pedagogical and ideological background of Finnish curriculum design, the tradition, the design, etc. A national curriculum in its essence is a means of social and cultural reproduction (Lundgren, 2006), but by the time people discussing based on the international perspective by following the kind of cultures of each country. This research was using the descriptive qualitative.

TEACHING 3 (MINE)

Jaiyeoba. O. Adebola. 2011. Primary School teachers’ Knowledge of Primary Education Objectives and Pupils Development, The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network Volume 11, No. 1 (p: 1-8)

This research was about the effective and cognitive education in primary school, especially for the teacher. The design of the study was descriptive research design. It focuses on Nigeria. Teaching therefore cannot be done by just anybody because it involves a body of knowledge being imparted to a less experienced or immature person through conscious and deliberate approach (Frankena, 1965). And teacher as the main of model in the school. They have to improve the skill of approaching in teaching. The study sets out to investigate the extent to which primary school teachers have the knowledge of primary education objectives, their perception of teaching profession and their concern for the affective and cognitive development of learners in Ibadan North Local Government, Area of Oyo State. How all things happened? Then the government should give the salary as the source of living, the good textbook, the teacher should get the orientation in teaching, and the last is schools have to be supervised to ensure qualitative education.

TEACHING 1 SUMMARY (DIDI)

Every teacher have the method in teaching and learning. But as far as the research explanation, this study shown that group work had the big effect in effective learning self-assessment can make students have a clear learning target, discipline themselves and therefore generate better learning results. As we know that self-assessment is based on the student-centered. It will increase the student’s enthusiasm, motivation, and participation of classroom activity. The self-assessment makes final assessment more rational and convincing, makes teachers better understanding students’ learning. And the teacher have to know about the possible problem, which is about unfairly. However, the implementation of peer and self-assessment really a good way to promote group work efficiency and it is valuable to be popularized in group work.

TEACHING 2 SUMMARY (SITI)

The study is focusing on the communication of speaking subject. The design of the research were mixed method design. The quantitative data from the speaking test and the students’ attitude towards teaching English speaking. The qualitative data from a Learning Log, a semi-structured interview and a Teacher Journal. Based on teaching theorists, speaking skill can be increase through communicative activities which include an information gap, a jigsaw puzzle, games, problem-solving, and Role-playing. And the study was explaining that this way gives the positive effect in interaction of each other in classroom activity. Teaching English speaking skills using the three communicative activities is a learning method and it was focusing on the learner-centered or usually we call it by student-centered. All of three ways of communicative activities are motivating students in learning.

TEACHING 3 SUMMARY (DWI)

This research will discussing the effect of contextual teaching and learning on students’ achievement in writing recount text. As we know that recount text is a text which has the purpose to inform past activities. Here they are the struggle with many problems in conveying what they want to say: selecting proper words, using correct grammar, generating ideas and developing them into a proper organizational pattern. The data of this research was from four meetings: 1 (one) meeting for pre-test; 2(two) meetings for treatment; and 1 (one) meeting for post-test. Contextual teaching and learning gives students a chance to be active in the teaching-learning process. So, by this research proof that the students are more active and enthusiastic in writing recount text  The result of this study shows about the significant increasing of student learning in writing.