CHARACTER BUILDING - Fried Rice and Step Child

This story is taken from a true story in 1960s era in Pontianak and retold from generation to generation, and my mom always told me. Hopefully useful.

Just mention the name of the boy is A Siang. He was a boy aged 8 years and still sits in second grade elementary school. He was an orphan, her mother died when giving birth, and her father remarried. But his father also died of illness a few months ago.

A Siang live in a small town in Pontianak, along with her stepmother. His father married again when his mother died, and from his new wife, he was blessed with a boy who is different one year with A Siang. Just mention the name of A Kwang, his aged seven years and sat on the bench first grade.

While his father was still alive, his step-mother love him. Whatever A Kwang has , A Siang get it also. But after his father death, her step mom’s original characteristics appear. Almost every day A Siang always treated very differently with those found by A Kwang.

A Siang and A Kwang school at the same place. Every day they are always given lunch by their mother. The menu should be equal between A Siang and A Kwang, since his father's death, A Siang always get a different menu with his stepbrother.

Indeed every morning before go to school, they were always given breakfast. If A Kwang get a delicious menu every morning, A Siang every day always get the same menu: fried rice. Even including a menu that brings to school every day: fried rice.

A Kwang had protested to his mother because she never fried rice dish out to him, while the A Siang’s lunch menus are always not be separated from the fried rice.

"A Kwang, my son.I'm Sorry.Is Not that mom did not want cook fried rice to you. But it's hot fried rice, especially if I fry with meat goats. I mean if gave him fried rice every day is so hot in his long run and eventually died. " his mother said.

Finally A Kwang can accept and understand what her mother treated her differently.

A Siang himself never asked why his stepmother always gave him fried rice menu ranging from breakfast to lunch menu at school. Their dinner menu was not much different, only breakfast and lunch are always different.

One day, as usually A Siang brings fried rice for lunch at school and one of his teacher pay attention. He also asked A Siang why everyday he is always eating fried rice. A Siang said his mother gave he and A Kwang the same menu since his father died.

The teacher just nodding his head because he understands the bad attitude of A Siang’s stepmother, then the teacher said, "Every morning when you came to school, you come to my room first. I will gives you a cup of bitter tea. Drink the tea before starting your studies in classroom. And each finished lunch, you return to me again. I will gives you a cup of bitter tea. Drink before you continue your lesson. "

A Siang teacher's wishes, and it was all done and A Kwang didn’t know.

A month, two months, passed. A Siang’s stepmother shock and disbelief when he realized a Siang still healthy and never suffer pain, especially pain in the heat. Instead, a Siang even more body fat.

Her mind initially turned evil become greedy. She thought the fried rice could make a person fat. And from that day, he gave the same menu to A Kwang, children, ranging from breakfast until lunch.

A month, two months, passed. A Kwang started coughing, frequent headaches and often feverish body heat. But his mama still give the fried rice with the hope their children will become fat like A Siang. A Kwang eventually died from heat illness he suffered was not prevented in again and reached its peak.

He did not know that A Siang always drink a bitter tea made by his teacher every time he finished eating the fried rice, because of the bitter taste tea can neutralize the fat and heat provided by the fried rice. So the expectation that he wanted happened to A Siang did not happen and prevented by a cup of tea after each meal of fried rice and even caused it on to their own biological child.

Only after the departure of A Kwang, the teacher came to their house and explain everything. After the incident, A Siang’s stepmother regret and she finally received a Siang as her own son and they live happily. Since that day there was no longer the fried rice was cook to A Siang.

Several lessons that can we learn from this true story are:
1. Do not do the wickedness because it will be exposed to bad karma.
2. Do not be greedy because greed would bring suffering.
3. Not all people who do wickedness was success because the truth will ultimately prevail.
4. Not always too good and innocent people become easy targets of crime, because people like that there would be salvation.
5. People in doing good, though yet to receive the reward but the suffering has been away from it. Instead of people doing wickedness, though not yet got revenge, but fortune has been away from it.

May this true story can give us some useful lessons in life. Read More..

JIGSAW

I just wanna share about what I learn about jigsaw teaching technique.
it is interesting for me, because I think it almost have no weakness (according to me exactly). The jigsaw teaching technique was invented and named in 1971 in Austin, Texas by a graduate professor named Elliot Aronson. Recent desegregation had forced a racial mix on the students of Austin, and many teachers were unable to cope with the turmoil and hostility of the situation (Aronson, 2007).
some benefits that I learn are:
- Teacher is not the sole provider of knowledge
- Efficient way to learn
- Students take ownership in the work and achievement
- Students are held accountable among their peers
- Learning revolves around interaction with peers
- Students are active participants in the learning process
- Builds interpersonal and interactive skills
The jigsaw strategy is a cooperative learning technique appropriate for students from 3rd to 12th grade. It is also used extensively in adult English Second Language (or ESL) classes. The strategy is an efficient teaching method that also encourages listening, engagement, interaction, peer teaching, and cooperation by giving each member of the group an essential part to play in the academic activity. Both individual and group accountability are built into the process. In ESL classrooms, jigsaws are a four-skills approach, integrating reading, speaking, listening and writing.

Jigsaw schematic is like this :








Based on my reading,the finding of this research will be useful for teacher trainees who are interested in analyzing teaching reading to the secondary school. It will give experiences and clear understanding about the process of teaching reading use cooperative method especially jigsaw to the readers. beside that it will give contribution to English teacher and can be a reference to improve their ability and competence in teaching English. In addition, jigsaw teaching technique will contribute to the development of knowledge especially language teaching methodology.

In this structure, students are members two different group, the 'home group' and 'jigsaw group'. initially, students meet in their groups and each member of the group is assigned a portion of the material to learn as an expect.

for example :

The class will be divided to 4 groups.
the 1st group research about behaviorism.
the 2nd group research about cognitivism.
the 3rd group research about contructivism.
the 4th group research about humanism.

collectively, each group will discuss the material on their task. after that the class is divided into four new groups. Each group will have one team member from each of the teams. Each member of the group is responsible for teaching the rest of the group what he/she has learned from his/her team assignment. Finally, the group then puts all of the pieces together and completes a group task that can only be answered once all of the team pieces are together. Read More..

How to get people to read and answer your question

Guys, I have a tips about "How to get people to read and answer your question", let's read it and hopefully it's useful for you when join any groups..


Step 1

Make sure that you have a clear, interesting title which contains good grammar and it easy to understand. Try not to make the title too long or too short, you want to entice people not scare them away.
Step 2

Make sure that you do your best to spell correctly and also ensure that your grammar isn't too bad. No one is perfect, but really bad grammar gets difficult to understand and it sometimes gives the impression that a person is trashy, so work on your grammar.
Step 3

NEVER EVER

Typ3 l1k3 th1s.

This may look cute, but it is extremely hard to read and is very annoying. Most people ignore such a question.
Step 4

Avoid typing your whole answer in

CAPITAL LETTERS.

Capital letters is like code for screaming, it *sounds* rude and is also not that easy to read.
Step 5

Please (I beg you)

Use paragraphs when asking a question. It is truly exhausting to read a question that is one long explanation and it is much easier to avoid such questions that to even bother answering them.

Also try and keep your question to one page maximum. Rather ask another question that follows on the first one. That will make it easier to read and understand.
Step 6

Be specific about what you are asking, i.e.

Don't state that for example you and your boyfriend are having relationship problems. Say why and what went wrong.
Step 7

Avoid swearing and name calling when asking a question. It could probably end up being deleted, but people will most likely just be rude back to you. So pretend for the few seconds that you are typing it that you have the best manners in the world.
Step 8

Proof read:

Yes, it takes time, but this way you can ensure that you actually got your point across and that you didn't make really annoying spelling mistakes. Read More..