becoming creative teacher through PAIKEM

Creativity isn’t always something that just happens. It can take quite a bit of work to nurture, grow, and develop creativity, even for those who are immersed in creative and dynamic fields. PAIKEM stands for Active, Innovative, Creative, Effective, and Fun. Active in the learning process meant that teachers must create an atmosphere so that students actively ask questions, and express ideas.

Most teachers have seen the reactions students can have to tasks and activities that they do not find engaging: the glassy or rolling eyes, the unfocused behavior, and the cries of "Not again!" or Because all your students do is just yawn or chat with their friends whenever you talk. How do you avoid that? Teaching creatively is highly essential to ensure your 1 hour with the students is made into full use.

 A creative teacher who did not want their students to feel bored and depressed at the time he gave a course material to their students. Then he will always find a way for their students to feel comfortable with the way of teaching which he gave.

Therefore, teachers are required to be creative as a teacher, teacher will make his creative  as well, be creative teacher really is not that difficult if you understand the principles PAIKEM (Active Learning, Innovative, Creative, Effective, and Fun), there are:

a. Provides opportunities for students to innovate
b. Making students as creative human
c. Build effective communication
d. Create a fun learning environment.

In teaching we also need to appreciate not only the result of the process. Often times teachers assess and appreciate the work of the student alone. While the process that students during their learning process is rarely appreciated.

In fact success in the classroom is influenced by how the ability of teachers to be able to alter the situation of the boring, saturating and strained into a relaxed, excited and feel good listening to people speaking in front.

Due to the good experience and fun in learning will positively impact the growth and development of the child. To support all necessary creative teachers.

For educators, it can be even more of a challenge to inspire creativity in students or embrace your own creativity while trying to juggle academic requirements, testing, and other issues in the classroom. It may be difficult but it’s certainly not impossible, and accomplishing it can help to create a classroom environment that’s more motivational, interesting, and educational for both teacher and students.

 Teacher as learning center is not good for student’s behavior, because it will only make students pasive and bored, however  if we teaching in young learners, we should be able to fully understand their behavior because,  young learners are not little adults, they have very different needs, interests, and abilities from adult learners. Teaching english as foreign laguage(EFL) to young learners requires that teachers have a through understanding of young learners development, needs, and characteristics.

A teacher must have a confident nature. Of course the nature of self-confidence and always want to grow is in itself a creative teacher. Not easy being a creative teacher, because whatever work he created should be returned to their students. The success of a creative teacher lies in the satisfaction of the student after receiving a given subject matter. Even if students do not feel like or not satisfied, creative teachers should be sensitive in this regard. The next step, he will try to find another teaching method.

 Teaching methods that suit the tastes and abilities of their students. But for me, the problem students are satisfied or pleased with the method of teaching that we give is the recent affair. The important thing is never give up attitude to always give the best to her students. Because whatever teaching methods are given, if varied, the students certainly will not be bored.

A creative teacher should not be clueless, Clueless (Stuttering Technology) can be a barrier for a teacher to be creative. Creative teacher must be sensitive to the changing times. He could combine the character of "old-fashioned" into something interesting. That is something that could combine the ancient with the modern. For example, varying the traditional game with a modern game.

In curriculum 2013 we as teachers are required to make all students active in the classroom, teachers do not just focus on textbooks, but with a model learning fun and not boring below, are models or class room setting arrangement include:

a. horseshoe
b. models conference
c. Model panel discussion
d. models seminar
e. Model group

By learning these models, students have helped teacher by their teacher ideas, opinion, imagination, and involvement.

PAIKEM based learning helps students develop the thinking skills of high phase, critical thinking and creative thinking (critical and creative thinking). Critical thinking is a skill reason regular, systematic skills in assessing, solving the problem interesting decision, given beliefs, assumptions and analyze scientific quest. Creative thinking is a mental activity to improve the purity (originality), sharpness of understanding (insight) in developing something (generating). The ability to solve problems is a high-level thinking skills.

Excess PAIKEM:
a. The process of teaching and learning into a fun process (learning is fun) and  meaningful
b. According to the learning style (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic)
c. Making students possess the social skills and communication skills.

Weakness of  PAIKEM:

a. It took a lot of
b. Teachers are required to have the skills and creativity
c. Often the learning process just focus on the game alone
d. Costly
e. Requires thorough preparation.

If you’re want’s to be a creative teacher, you must know what they need. Be aware of the level you are teaching and the absorption of information according to age:

• Kindergarten: Attracted to vibrant colors & huge fonts, high absorption of information
• Elementary: Learning curve, fill them with more information in a 50 % text/ 50% pictorial method
• Secondary: Chances are they know what you’re saying, but there are many things that they could be ignorant on, tap on that. Study the style of each student, cater accordingly. You must always be more knowledgeable than them to awe them.

  Change the classroom environment: change seats every week, just for one lesson. Have fun making seats face each other or in a circle – focus on you being able to reach out to ALL students, no one sits in a corner where you can't go near them or catch them dozing away. Say please and thank you if they rebel – feed them compliments later on.

Basic Competence

a.       Applying the technique of the power of two

Engineering The Power of Two is one way that can be used by students to be able to learn to process their own thoughts. Teachers are expected to develop or find alternatives that can be used to help students learn effectively. The learning process will be more effective if teachers are conditioned so that each student actively involved and there is a dynamic relationship and mutual support between the students with other students.

b.      Snow balling

Snowball throwing technique is one of vocabulary games which make students enjoy and can decrease worry in learning vocabulary. Snowball throwing encourages the students to be active in speaking participation in the classroom, because this method contains a rich communication where students must be active. Snowball throwing techniques haves positive effect on the students memory development.

c.       Card sort

A student and teacher copy of a card sorting game where persuasive techniques are matched to their purpose.

d.      Information search

The purpose of the application of this method is to give learners an opportunity to discover a science to the process of looking itself.

A creative classroom is a joyful and motivating place where children feel empowered to learn, where all ideas are welcomed, and where learning is deep and meaningful. Children who are allowed to be creative are better learners, and they are more aware of their own learning styles. Creativity is a lifelong skill that our students will take with them into their adult lives to solve problems and help build a better world.

Inspiring and creative teacher is the key to success in the implementation of Curriculum 2013, which always puts the needs, requirements, and interests of learners and the environment. It is expected that, with the presence of inspirational and creative teachers in the curriculum in 2013, can produce students who have the ability to communicate, think critically and creatively, and able to face the global challenges.

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