By : Rosalia Hera NS
NIM : 09301244003
Class : Swadana Class of Mathematic Education 2009
A. Introduction
Education was so important for our life. By the education we can develop the people resources. And when we have a good resources we can applied it to develop our life or the other aspect in our life. As what written in the aim of our country, one of them is to make the people’s life smart. And in order to realize that there are many activity or programs that developed continuously by the government or the education exert. But whenever we talk about education we can’t forget about the teaching learning process. It was the main activities that cover or contain all part of education. Or we can say that teaching learning process was the tools or ways to realize the aim of education.
Maybe when we hear about the teaching learning process we will tough it’s easy. But when we look deeper it’s was so complex. There was many factor or aspect in teaching learning process that needed to understand by us. All aspect such as interaction and teaching method had a contribution to determine the teaching learning was success or not. All of that’s component was related each other and make a complex relation. No one aspect could be ignored by us. Not except in mathematics. Although it’s have the different characteristic with the other subject but generally it’s also contents many important aspect.
B. The Complexity of Teaching Learning Mathematics
Such as was explained before there are many aspects in teaching learning process. They are student, teacher, interaction, education facilities, media, teaching method, psychology aspect etc. all of that aspect need to look deeper to realize the innovative teaching learning in order to catch the aim of that.
1. Student and Teacher
Student and teacher, when we discuss about them we should understand that the main rule of teacher here are as the facilitator. The teacher should facilitate the student to develop their own creativity. And in order to do that teacher needed to implement and develop the other aspect of teaching learning too.
2. Interaction
Interaction is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another. Interaction is also needs in teaching learning activity. In the tradition method of teaching learning, the learning was dominated by the teacher and the student has been the passive learner. The communication just in one direction, but in the innovative teaching learning, there are needs an interaction between the student and the teacher. When the student active they will be more interesting to follow the lesson.
There are some types of interaction that can be use in teaching learning activity. First whole class interaction. The second type is group interaction. By using the second interaction teacher can more satisfy what the student need. The last is individual interaction. It’s mean that there the interaction just between teacher and one student or student and student. Another that the interaction also can made from the student with the school component and environment.
3. Educational facilities
Education facilities influence the confidence of the student whenever they ware studying. Although it’s not the main aspect that must be fulfill but it’s influence the teaching learning process. Because we realize or not the confidence is influence our psychology and it’s influence us to understand the material. The examples of educational facilities are whiteboard, table, and chair.
4. Teaching Aids and Media
All of we knows that mathematics was an abstract subject and not all student have a good abstraction. Because of that we need to help them to understand the abstract object with something that real. Another that by using the media and teaching aids there was a lot of advanced. Such as makes the student more interesting to pay attention and easily to understand the material.
5. Teaching method
Whenever the teacher want to held the teaching learning process they needed to create a strategy to teach or we can call it the teaching method. Teaching method is ways to teach that can be applied in the learning process in all subjects. Teaching method used to make the learning process more effective and efficient. There are no right methods that can be implemented in all condition. The specific method just can be right for several conditions. Because of that, teacher needs to developing and implementing various methods in their teaching according the conditions of the student.
6. Psychological aspect
Our body consists of two aspect physic and psychology. They also influence our concentration. When ever one of them was not good our concentration will be also not good. Because of that, them needed to be getting attention. Another that the psychological aspects also determine how does the studying type from a student and also the level of the understanding.
7. Context of teaching learning
The context of teaching learning was an important one because it determined the culture of them. The culture will be determine the methods, the attitude etc in teaching learning that should be use in order to help student developing their own knowledge.
8. Lesson Plan and syllabi
They were one of the main components in teaching learning process. Lesson plan giving the teacher direction how to held the teaching learning process in a specific times. But syllabi giving more generally direction for the teaching learning process in each semesters. Or we can say that from syllabi we expand it into lesson plan.
9. Student Worksheet
Student worksheet was an innovative tool that can be implement in the teaching learning process. Student worksheet is a collection of problem that given by the teacher to the student that related to the topic. But its not just an arbitrary collection. The student worksheet must be consists of the problem that by doing this the student can construct their own knowledge. Another that there are some steps that’s given in order to direct the student solve problem or gets new material. It’s one of the media of teaching learning and also one way to facilitate the student.
There was several benefit of using worksheet in teaching learning process. They are student can work independently and for teacher worksheet can use to develop a wide range of activity that can use to learn. By this way hope student can find the material or concept by their self. So they can more understand because it’s based on their own experience.
10. Assessment
The assessment should held in the process of learning not just in the end of teaching learning process. Educational assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. The term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress. Though the notion of assessment is generally more complicated than the following categories suggest, assessment is often divided for the sake of convenience using the following distinctions: formative and summative, objective and subjective, referencing (criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and ipsative), informal and formal.
11. Technology
As we know that in this era technology was moving so fast. Because of that we needed to follow the development. Another that its also can help the teaching learning process.
Another that there are the other aspects that also effect the teaching learning process. And to implementing them we need to correlate them in to one framework of teaching in order to catch the aim of education.
C. Conclusion
There was a lot of aspect in teaching learning mathematics that need to pay attention by the teacher and education care. They was an important aspect but they can walk alone. They need to collaborate and related each other to realize the trued teaching learning process. It’s also made the mathematics is complex not only in the material but also in the teaching learning process.
