PENDIDIKAN YANG SEHARUSNYA DISEDIAKAN SEKOLAH UNTUK SISWANYA
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I’m
really glad to welcome you to S**** N******* Secondary School where students
are preparing their future. We believe that education is actually not
about “teaching” but it is completely about “learning”. This belief leads us
not to be busy preparing ourselves to teach, but we are here pretty engrossed
to make our students learn. We try to facilitate our students’ learning process
with safe and comfortable educational environment which will give a good
atmosphere for our students not only to achieve useful nowadays knowledge and
science but also give them a chance to turn themselves to be reliable thinkers
and calculating risk takers who possess mature characters. So in the long run
our students will be educated people with fully developed potentials which
ensure that they are capable of reaching their utmost capabilities.
We
surely understand that our students will face different future, something that
we cannot imagine today. Society is changing. We watch everything change very
rapidly lately. The norms, values, tools, gadgets, social relationship, human
preferences are all subjects to change. It means that, in the future of our
today students, all aspects of social life, the skills and knowledge required
for work and lives will be shifting. That is why we also believe that our
educational systems need to be adapted to meet the needs of our students’
future so that they will be able to acclimate to the changing times. They will easily
face their time and find solutions to the problems they might get in their
future lives.
S**** N****** School offers a teaching and learning strategy to enrich the learning
process by developing Science-based curriculum which emphasizes the
relationship between subjects (integrated learning). Our learning process
will be supported by the use of multi-media, and various teaching approaches,
such as ATL (Approaches To Learning), CTL (Contextual Teaching Learning),
Constructivism, Leadership Life Skills, entrepreneurship program to
support our students’ multiple intelligences developments.
After
all in S**** N******* Secondary school, students will experience educational
process that are holistic, so that students can receive knowledge and
skills from many kinds of resources, not only from the teachers and the
textbooks. The education we prepare will also in the form of sharing
information, teacher will only act as facilitators of learning, not to
spoon-feed the knowledge. It means that student-centered learning is a
mandatory teaching method in our school. Besides, we will also make sure that
our school is a risk-free studying environment . It will guarantee
our students’ self-development with a good character building. Last but not
least, we at S**** N******* Secondary School nourish higher-level thinking
skills to our students.