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Volume 2, Issue 1
January2001/February2001
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Table of Contents The Great Indonesian Teachers' Survey |
Hai! Gimana kabar? Hope you are getting into the inevitable "back to school" saga!
The very first thing I want to do, is to draw your attention to some real achievers in the teaching of Indonesian students in the 2000 academic year. And I refer you to our section:
Congratulations, where we congratulate those schools in NSW whose students achieved the highest marks in the HSC last year. (And we all know that behind every good student, is a great teacher) - so let's take our hats off to these wonderful people, for a job well done!It's really enjoyable to be working on Bahasa Raya, when our subscriptions are swelling and we have received such great feedback, I really want to thank you all for your support throughout 2000, (which was a very difficult year for me personally on the home front).Nevertheless, this year is looking so promising, for developing and growing, that I hope we continue to improve the quality of this publication, (with a little help from YOU!)
Once again, with a new academic year looming, I want to urge you all to consider submitting articles of interest, or worksheets, or maybe you've caught up with a really great web site/film/programme or two - ANYTHING you can share with the rest of the Indonesian teachers on this subscriber base is gratefully accepted.
In this issue we have some
New Innovations that are going to be happening at Kambing this year.Firstly,
The Great Indonesian Teachers Survey! (Go To: http://www.creativeknowhow.com.au/ck/survey/listquestions.htm)Last issue, when I posted an article which dealt with the growing demands, frustrations and exasperations of the Indonesian teachers' lot in today's classrooms,(see "Try To Be A Brave Girl, Sally" (vol1 Issue 5), I was literally swamped with emails which supported this view that things were anything but rosy out there in the field!
For this reason, I decided to be pro-active and to DO SOMETHING about it through the power of this medium. My solution saw the birth of
The Great Indonesian Teachers' Survey. Never before have any of us had a really complete picture of the Indonesian teaching world, beyond our isolated teaching posts. So this survey is an attempt to give YOU some valuable feedback, allow YOU to judge just where you stand within this greater picture, and then give back to YOU the results of this survey. In this way, we can possibly provide some solutions to some problems, or if not, at least identify the major problems and throw it out to the Indonesian community at large, to come up with some solutions to make things better for all of us. All YOU have to do, is complete the survey and urge others to do so too, by simply emailing them!Secondly,
Win A Trip To Bali! (Without the students this time?)At Kambing Int Press, we have grown and added more & more resources for the teaching of Indonesian. We thought how great it would be to be able to offer an incentive loyalty programme to those teachers who support us, by offering some attractive rewards. We came up with a Loyalty Rewards Programme which not only rewards you with loyalty points for your submissions to Bahasa Raya and for contributions for the web site when we call for them, but also for every AU$1 your school spends with us. (We have even instituted a "procurement" programme, where you can place an order with us, naming all of the resources you would like to order, and we will attempt to procure them for you within a 48 hour period. You will then be rewarded with the points "dollar for dollar". (But read more about the "procurement" programme" and our Loyalty Rewards Programme on our web site at www.kambing.com.au).
The points are then accumulated in our data base, and at the beginning of fourth term, we will reward the schools with the highest points, with valuabe language resources, and the ultimate winner, of course, will win a return economy ticket to Bali! - not a bad way to spend your Summer school holidays.
Finally, having now explained the points system - (and you can read more about it on our web site), I am now calling for submissions for the February Issue....... !!!!!! So start collecting points by submitting to Bahasa Raya! Please eMail me today:
Terima kasih dan selamat membaca dan mengajar!
Suzanne Weatherburn
The Great Indonesian Teachers' Survey
Takes 15 minutes to complete!
Pass It On To Others You Know Who Teach Indonesian Anywhere!
http://www.creativeknowhow.com.au/ck/survey/listquestions.htm
We are quite serious about getting bulk survey responses as soon as possible, so PLEASE assist us, by filling in the survey at the URL above (just click on it), and then pass this URL (via email) on to others you know, who also teach Indonesian. The theory is, that this could spread quickly, if everyone were to pass it on to say, half a dozen Indo teachers, the exponential growth would be phenomenal and in theory, we could cover the whole world's population of Indo teachers (with email), within a few short weeks. So PLEASE be a part of this very exciting experiment.
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Congratulations to the following schools and more importantly, the teachers involved in producing such wonderful results for their students. (The information was taken from the published results in the Daily Telegraph, Thursday, December 21, 2000. p.49)
The following list, is the list of those students who attained the "Merit List" status, for their performances in their Indonesian courses in the State of NSW in the 2000 HSC external examinations.
INDONESIAN 2 UNIT St Catherines' School - Rebecca James 1 St Catherine's School - Avan Jussawalla 2 North Sydney Boys High School - James Beng Lee 3 Central Coast Grammar School - Renee Burton 4 MLC Burwood - Serena Xiao Haan Teh 4 St Catherine's School - Lauren Hrouda 6 |
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INDONESIAN 3 UNIT Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney - Kylie Hunter 1 North Sydeny Boys High School - Keith Kheng Hoe Koh2 St George Girls High School, Kogarah - Kathryn Jane Wallace3 MLC Burwood - Julie Yin Lin Koh4 St George Girls High School, Kogarah - Lisa Ann Godwin5 |
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INDONESIAN (BS) 2 UNIT The Open High School - Melanie Lumanto1 THe Open High School - Veronica Pandea2 |
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INDONESIAN 2Z Coffs Harbour Christian Community School- Carlie Simone Judkins1 |
Special heartfelt congratulations to Jonathan Petersen, of Coffs Harbour Christian Community School, who must have felt elated (and rightly so), when he could prove that small regional isolated schools can have great Indonesian students too!
I would urge as many of you as possible to place a congratulations message on the Kambing Teachers' Bulletin Board, to the teachers from these schools, who have had such excellent results, and perhaps those teachers concerned could let us in on their "secrets for success"??? in the next Bahasa Raya???
Furthermore, I would urge the teachers from other States and Countries, to share their local successes and thereby boost everyone's confidence and provide valuable support for the teachers ofIndonesian everywhere!
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The Importance of Establishing An Indonesian Reading Programme In Your Classroom
It is the time of year when Primary school teachers are planning for the whole new academic year to come, and now knowing what your class/es will be, you can successfully prepare for an Indonesian Reading Programme.
Just think about it. Would you consider teaching reading and writing in English, without implementing a reading programme to complement the hard work you do in class? No! I wouldn't have thought so. So Indonesian is no different. The students must have exposure to reading materials, which they can immerse themselves in, and which will boost their vocabulary, their confidence, and the speed at which they acquire the new language.
A reading programme can be made up of "home made/tailor made" reading materials, which only cost you time and effort (and a little expertise), or you can cheat and buy some very good commercial materials to form the basis of the programme
.(See the excellent resources by Renny Yaniar, the CD storybooks, Masa Kecil, etc. in the Kambing Shop)Step One: Have A "Take-Home" Reading policy in place.
Do have a look at the article on "take-home" readers in vol1 Issue 2, as the first step in any reading programme is to have items that the children can take home and share with their families. (Never underestimate the value of a supportive parent!)
Step Two: Reading Stations In The Classroom
By establishing some "reading stations" in the classroom, you are preparing for the student's own discovery learning experiences. Personally, I would set up three to four stations, (depending on class size of course), where the centrepiece is a reading text, and then there are activities related to that text. For example, you could have one station, where the text is to be listened to via "listening posts" and the children playing a cassette tape of you reading the story for them. Another idea, would be a "puzzle" station, where you have created a problem/puzzle for them to work out by having to read the text thoroughly. Another suggestion could be an art/craft activity, based on the characters of the book. Yet another, is to have a creative writing task, based on the book. The possibilities are endless - you only need to use your imagination!
Step Three: You Must Have Some "One-On-One" With Every Child Reading
This is naturally the most difficult step to do, but not impossible and I feel it is vital, for the programme to work. You must schedule a few moments, to hear every student read to you, and give them valuable positive feedback to encourage them to develop their reading further and to develop their independence!
Step Four: Maintain A Running Record File (For Assessment Purposes)
Nothing is more useful to you for assessment purposes, than a running record of the student's progress in reading Indonesian. Every time you hear the child read to you, jot down a comment on their pronunciation, their comprehension, their interest & enthusiasm level, etc. etc. All of these comments can be collated at report time, for some meaningful assessment comments on the student's report.
Step Five: Evaluate Your Reading Course & Take Action To Improve It Regularly
Nothing is worth doing, unless it's done well! This is no different from any other part of your programme. The programme needs to be assessed at least every term and you can add components you might think of to improve it, or delete/amend those aspects which are not working. If you follow this evaluation process every term, think what a great programme you will have by the end of the year!
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For Secondary Teachers
A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT TO KNOCK THEIR SOX OFF!
In the early stages of the year, when you are just getting to know your students, (and they are just getting wise to you), it is a great idea to throw them a challenge in the form of a great "social experiment".
Not only will they rise to the occasion, absolutely amazing you and themselves, but also it sets the scene for actually reflecting on what it means to learn a foreign language and how it is inextricably connected with the culture of the society within which the language is spoken.
This activity was first introduced to me by a fabulous Sociology Lecturer I had the good fortune to meet, whilst studying Sociology at the Canberra University, many moons ago.
STAGE ONE
My lecturer introduced the experiment by throwing some questions and observations out to the class, as food for thought. They went something like this:
And after these questions had been thrown out for all to enthusiastically contribute, we discussed them at great length! (All the while, the conversation was being guided by our talented lecturer). We moved on to discuss what was culturally appropriate in one country and not in another.
The discussion was quite in-depth, and included such topics as: "toilets of the world", "the language of romance", "the expectations of adults concerning the raising of children", "money/work ethics", etc. all as applied to different cultural expectations. The possibilities were endless - as were the discussions! The class was constantly challenged by the teacher throwing out such questions as to touch the very lives of their students, their beliefs, their values, their social mores, and the lesson ended too suddenly, because no-one wanted to stop the discussions they had had so far!
Stage Two
Of course, our expectations were high, after the exciting stage one discussion phase in the previous lesson. We were not disappointed.
Our lecturer turned up with an assignment sheet entitled: "The Great Social Experiment"!
The class was divided into THREE distinct groups, and we were given the task of forming a brand new society, with cultural values very different to those we already have in our society.
We were given three weeks to form our society, become united in what we believed in, didn't believe in, valued and despised in that society, until we felt that we were already integrated within it and felt that it was natural to follow the norms of that society.
Then, in the fourth week, we had to put on a small play in front of the whole class, demonstrating as many of the features of our own new culture, as we could to the audience.
The audience's role was to list some of the features they are able to observe about this particular society, as if they were anthropologists, doing a field study.
How did it all go? Swimmingly! It was a series of lessons that I have repeated many times over with high school students, who are beginning their studies in a foreign language, and for many, it is the first opportunity they have had to reflect on the significance of society's self regulated cultural behaviours.
In short, if you have a go at this lesson, I can guarantee that you will enjoy the experience, as will your students, and you will set the scene for a wonderful year ahead!
After all, as Language Teachers, we all know that it's not about what's in the textboook! It's in the hearts and minds of the people who belong to the culture, which is the undercarriage for the language we are trying to teach.
Selamat Mengajar!
Written by Suzanne Weatherburn Copyright KIP, February, 2001
And if you do have some wonderful experiences with this type of "social experiment", please do share it with us all, by emailing me at: enquiries@kambing.com.au
Below are some items on educational events, positions vacant, and any information of general interest to indophiles everywhere.If you can provide an item to advertise in this section of Bahasa Raya, please email me the information asap. I will be only too happy to share it with everyone.
By the way, it costs nothing to place an announcement, unless you are a commercial enterprise! It is merely a community service to Indonesian teachers on this mailing list.
For commercial advertising enquiries, please email a request to:
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Positions Vacant - Indonesian Teacher Hi everyone, |
Positions Vacant - Indonesian Teacher Yrs 7-10 Indo Daramalan College, Canberra This position is available from 2001 - if you are a dynamic and committed teacher of Indonesian, this position will be very rewarding for you! Please contact Yolande Albina on the school number 02 62456300 if you are interested in finding out more! |
RE: "ORISHA International" TOUR of TASMANIA Information provided by: Lesley Harbon
ORISHA International will, once again, be touring Tasmanian schools and colleges from 9th April to 4th May.ORISHA Arts in Education programme include:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
A few additional points concerning the Indonesian performance project announced last week. *It is now proposed that the workshop in dance and music on the Launceston campus of the University, intended especially for teachers, take place on a Saturday afternoon. The suggested time is Saturday 23 March 2-5pm, with afternoon tea, at a charge of $25 per head. *Thursday April 12 was inadvertantly left off the list of available dates for school workshops. * In addition to their other activities, Mas Bambang, Mas Gandung and their colleague Martinus Miroto, a star dancer and choreographer who will be in Launceston for one week only, will be giving a presentation of classical and contemporary Indonesian dance and music at the University on the night of March 30. Further details will follow nearer to the time.
Please contact:
Professor Barbara Hatley
School of Asian Languages and Studies
UTAS, Launceston 7250
Phone 63243058 or 63243223
Email: barbara.hatley@utas.edu.au
Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Pfalz dan ICMI Baden Württemberg, Bundes Republik Deutschland AGAMA DAN AGAMAWAN DI INDONESIA PASCA 2000: RETROSPEKSI DAN PROSPEKSI
http://www.geocities.com/ppipfalz/agamawan.htm
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Keyakinan kami adalah bahwa dalam jangka panjang konflik sosial di
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agama --salah satu dimensi sosial yang sangat kuat dalam membangun
sentimen kelompok dan sebaliknya mendorong konflik-- para agamawan
disarankan untuk mulai saling membuka diri secara blak-blakan:
mendaftar hal-hal apa saja yang mereka harapkan untuk dilakukan dan
untuk tidak dilakukan oleh agamawan lain. (Yang kami maksudkan dengan
"agamawan" adalah penganut agama atau orang yang mengimani Tuhan.) Proyek ini diharapkan menjadi suatu "seminar virtual", dimana tulisan
Anda dipajang di website, dibaca dan ditanggapi oleh banyak orang.
Setelah itu artikel-artikel Anda akan kami usahakan untuk diterbitkan
dalam bentuk buku agar dapat dikaji oleh masyarakat Indonesia secara
lebih luas. Diharapkan bahwa proyek ini dapat membantu tumbuhnya
saling-pengertian dan toleransi --atau bahkan saling-menerima-- yang
lebih riil dan bermakna di antara para agamawan di Indonesia. Untuk turut memberikan iuran pemikiran, Anda tidak perlu berpredikat
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BRIDGE BUILDING AMBASSADOR HAILED
The Australia Indonesia Association (AIA) has paid tribute to the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Bapak Arizal Effendi MA, who returned to Jakarta this week after just fourteen months in Canberra.
AIA President Megan Lavender said that Bapak Effendi, who is considered to be one of Indonesia’s best trouble shooting diplomats, had made significant gains in repairing the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.
"The job of damage controller between Australia and Indonesia is not a effortless one, least not in the last year. It was ‘not an easy task’ as Bapak Effendi admitted himself in an address to the National Press Club last year," Miss Lavender said.
"Most notably he can be credited with establishing the telephone hotline between the countries’ two foreign ministers, which has gone a long way to eliminate the embarrassing public faux pas of the past, and his endeavours to promote trade and education cooperation," she said.
"Both Australia and Indonesia owe Bapak Effendi a monumental debt of gratitude for the lengths he went to in building bridges between Canberra and Jakarta," Miss Lavender said.
Prior to his Australian mission, Arizal Effendi was posted at the Indonesian embassies to the United States at Washington, United Nations at Geneva, United Kingdom at London, and the United Nations at New York.
He has also served as head of both the International Organisation Directorate and the Legal and International Treaty Affairs Directorate at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta.
For more details, please contact the President, Megan Lavender, direct on telephone 02 9747 2920 or 0419 419 269, by facsimile on 02 9703 5520, or via email at lavender@hotkey.net.au SATURDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 2001
 | The Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Bapak Arizal Effendi, with the President of the Australia Indonesia Association, Miss Megan Lavender, and the Indonesian Consul General to NSW, Bapak Gunawan, at the 2000 Indonesian Festival in Sydney. |
 | The Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Bapak Arizal Effendi, with the President of the Australia Indonesia Association, Miss Megan Lavender, and the Patron, Councillor Andrew Ho of Strathfield Municipal Council, at the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra (December 1999). |
Megan J. Lavender, J.P., B.A., Dip.Ed., A.T.C.L. President, Australia Indonesia Association Telephone: 02 9747 2920 Facsimile: 02 9703 5520 Mobile: 0419 419 269 Email: lavender@hotkey.net.au Address: G.P.O. Box 802, Sydney 1043, New South Wales, Australia
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ASILE CONFERENCE
The ASILE 2001 is already on the drawing board!The theme this year will be "Understanding the Language is the Path to the People's Hearts" So mark your diaries for 10-12 July 2001 in Melbourne! For further details click on this link:
We have finally made available the
We have also just acquired some excellent new additions in the New Look Kambing Shop, many of which are directly from Indonesia! Don't forget to order the books written by Kerry Collison and also the CD's from Language Technologies.
Coming Soon! Due in March 2001!
NEW E - courses coming in MARCH 2001
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New! New! New!
Just updated in our NEW catalogue! We have just acquired some great book titles for your pleasure and/or for your advanced/mature students. They are fictional, but have a lot of insights into factual, cultural and political happenings in Indonesia.
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1. Jakarta by Kerry Collison @ $14.95 (incl GST) |
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2. Freedom Square by Kerry Collison @ $14.95 (incl GST) |
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3. The Timor Man by Kerry Collison @ $14.95 (incl GST) |
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4. The Fifth Season by Kerry Collison @ $19.95 (incl GST) |
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5. In Search of Recognition by Kerry Collison @ $19.95 (incl GST) |
Just fax through your order to 02 62598775
Reminder! Reminder! Reminder!
Don't Forget To Get Your Students To Subscribe To Our Free
"Hot Tips" Weekly Newsletter. It's proving to be very popular, and will make your life easier too, because the hot tips are all of the tried and true principles, which you are already teaching them to do!Reminder! Reminder! Reminder!
Don't forget - we have revamped
WHIP for 2001 (Weekly Homework For Indonesian Practice) The new cost of this new efficient WHIP programme?Individual Subscribers will pay ONLY $44 p.a.
School Subscriptions will also be available for only $99 p.a.
(For access for up to 50 students! Great value!)
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Yes! That's right! You can now register for our brand new competition to win fabulous resources for your school & even a trip to Bali for you! (Without your students!) EVERY TEACHER DESERVES SUCH A TRIP - SO WHY NOT YOU? To register, just visit our web site and find out how you, too, could be going to Bali in your Summer holidays in 2001! FIND OUT HOW IT WORKS RIGHT NOW! QUICK -FIND OUT ABOUT BALI HERE
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