May 20, 2012

Talented but Not Achieving its Potential Match?

Children or gifted students who do not perform as expected potential called underachiever. There are several characteristics inherent in these learners.

According to R. Semiawan Conny, who is also education observer Permanent Professors Graduate Program Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia, some common features can be seen in students who are classified as an underachiever, among others:

- Attitudes which generally do not show maturity

- Negative attitude toward the condition or state of school

- Attitudes and habits that are less well studied

- Low self-attitude (inferior) the sometimes excessive

- Tend to be defensive

- Often like to blame others

- Feel a sense of low self-esteem, which is often demonstrated with unproductive behavior (lazy)

- Low productivity, which causes the learning process that lived more often dependent on others (learned helplessness)

Super achievement

Conny said, the problem of underachievement has two sides. The first side is underachievement in the strict sense, whereas the second is called underachievement with super achievement, the pressures experienced by gifted students to be perfect and very intelligent, a desire to be extraordinary children than others, felt the most creative, and concern to be admired by peers because of his appearance to receive popularity.

According to Conny, the characteristics of children who have super achievement conditions include:

- Tend to internalize stress in, because the people around him too much admired and praised

- Difficult to grow and progress if all that does not take credit.

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The School apply Instructive School Orientation

orientation education schoolImplementation of new student orientation period that began Monday is far from guaranteed action or violence action and activities that are not education condition. Schools fill the orientation of new students with a variety of activities that focus on the introduction of the school environment and culture in order to prepare students capable of adapting to their new school.

On Saturday (11 / 7), new students, especially junior high school-equivalent in the area of Jakarta and surrounding areas, get a briefing from the school to be ready to begin a new academic year 2009/2010 on this weekend. The students will experience the new orientation of the students (MOS) for three to a week  in school and outside school under the supervision of teachers.

MOS implementation in schools is the responsibility of teachers. The involvement of senior students as the OSIS is to assist and introduce activities in schools. This is to cut off the chain slavery which may be senior to the yuniornya, said Talib Haderani the student from Public Senior High School (SMAN) 28 Jakarta.

According Haderani, schools also have the habits that are not related to education, such as the use of attributes by exotic new students. Have been the last two years, held MOS laden with activities that help students to more quickly adapt to the new school environment. During three days in a matter of introducing the first weekend of school, then later also have training outside of school discipline, such as military with the assistance of the third parties . But there is no guarantee of nuance. Everything is instructive, said Haderani.

Teti Suryati, SMAN 12 Jakarta, said MOS actually used as an opportunity to provide new students with the policies of the school that aims to bring students can succeed in completing the study during the next three years. “The school rules and maintaining the correct signs for MOS-signs that have been defined so that useful for new students,” said Teti.

Habits that may feel strange for the students in the new MOS, said Teti, a request that the school each student to bring trash from home. The command is not for joking new students that are still simple, but to introduce them to the school culture that is a matter of discipline garbage.

Since 2006, in the MOS have to introduce the discipline of the school, where students must remove the waste in order. “In addition, students also get to take advantage of the waste into useful products, including compost, which is so superior this school,” said Teti.

Junior Mathematics Olympic, Medal Retrieved 14

children studiesElementary School Students and Junior High School Indonesia successfully achieve the second rank in Mathematics Olympic event World Junior Level or International World Youth Mathematics Intercity Competition (IWYMIC) held in Durban, South Africa on 5-10 July. Indonesia sending 12 elementary and junior high school students bring home 13 bronze medals, 1 silver medal, and 3 award or medal awards for best appearance.

“Although only get a bronze and silver medals, achievement, students need to get that appreciation. For the competition they face an average age above 16 years. But we are still students aged elementary and junior high school class 1,” said Director of Preschool Primary / Elementary School from Ministry Education AK Mudjito in Jakarta, Indonesia after the team arrived back in the country on Saturday (11 / 7).

Achievement of medal by Indonesia Mathematics Team is comprised of 8 bronze medals obtained through the individual contest, 1 silver medal for the team contest, 2 bronze medals for the team contest, and 3 bronze medals for the group award. The competition was followed by students from 35 countries.

Mudjito explained, Indonesia has three times the contest, junior mathematics than 10 times the contest has been held. Previous year, the team succeeded in getting Indonesia 4 gold medals. But this year the gold medal slip from the clutch.

“We will evaluate whether the distance factor is the location of equal or less ready for our students,” said Mudjito.