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How to Cultivate Focus and Emotion to Our Students?

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The Strategies  of Cultivating Focus and Emotion to the Students The Students entering into the classroom have diverse background, condition or situation, and potency. Majority of them have difficulties in focus and emotion, and it is not easy to tell them to cncentrate or focus in learning. They enter into the classroom with empty brain, and they do not have any purposes to go to school. Therefore, the alternative ways or strategies are very urgent. There are ten strategies that can be used to cultivate focus and emotion to our students in learning. Before understanding the strategies, we should know the definition of focus and emotion in advance. A. The definition of Focus and Emotion 1. The Definition of Focus In the educational context, focus denotes the capacity to direct one's attention and concentration towards a specific objective, subject, or task. This entails the ability to eliminate distractions, sustain attention over time, and actively participate in the learning proc...

How to Apply the Character Education in the Era of the Twenty First Century Learning?

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 The Implementation of Character Education in the Twenty First Century. In applying the character education in the twenty first century learning, there are some items that should be noticed  in advance, namely the definition of character education, the impacts of  Technology,  the urgency of  the character education in the twenty first century learning, and the implementation of  the character education  1. What is the Character Education     The word of "character" is taken from the language of the Greek "charakter", which means a mark. Aristoteles  defined good character as the life of right conduct in   relation to others and to oneself (Lickona, 1992). According to Elkind and Sweet (1997),   character is defined as the types of choices people make. Finally, Lickona stated that   good character was defined as moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral behavior.   In the teaching of Islam,the morality, behavior or virt...

How to Teach a Grammar Communicatively? Unit One : To Be (is, sm, are)

 A Communicative Grammar Unit one :  How to Teach to Be "is, am , are" communicatively There are some ways that should be noticed in teaching a grammar communicatively, namely : teach  to be is, am, are in complete sentences,  in language contexts, and in a direct communication.  1. Teaching To be is, am, are in Complete sentences   The understanding of the complete sentences is  the sentences that at least consist of subject and predicate (to be), like the following examples: a. Hi, I am a student     I is a subject   and am a student is Predicate b. She is a beautiful girl     "She " is as subject  and is a beautiful girl is predicate c.He is a handsome boy    "He" is a subject and is a handsome boy is a predicate d. They are very clever students e. Susi and I are good friends f. The book is new g. The books are very interesting h. Are you Susan?  yes, I am i. She is not a student j. You are a dillige...