BUILDING MATHEMATIC CLASS WARMTH TO GROW LONG-LIFE LEARNING SPIRIT

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Being a teacher is some honour to participate in building a civilized world civilization. The successful world civilization development cannot be independent of the successful development of human mental through education. For that reason, it is very important to grow awareness and to develop a long-life learning spirit among the students. One idea of realizing it was to build warmth in mathematic class. The rigid, sterile, dry or less meaningful mathematic class that results in trauma in the students should be left and managed into a warm mathematic class.
This article was a result of library study and the authors’ best experience in the field raising creative ideas to build a warm mathematic class; thereby the mathematic learning became joyful, meaningful, challenging and providing solution to real problem and growing a long-life spirit learning within the students. Those ideas were related to what should be known about the potential mathematic students, what the teacher should be prepared to design a warm mathematic class, and how to design a warm mathematic class. From the result of library study and the authors’ best experience, it could be concluded that: (a) as a facilitator, the teacher should create mathematic class warmth by building close relationship between teacher and students, (2) the teacher should pay attention to the problem of meaningful and challenging learning, the students’ intellectual development level, learning style, prerequisite ability, interactivity, feedback, learning strategy, positive and joyful emotional climate, and conducive environment, and (3) the teacher should create an opportunity of developing a sustainable profession.

Key words: Long-life learning, joyful & meaningful learning.

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