Tentang Karakter

Karakter berbeda dengan kepribadian dan temperamen. Kepribadian adalah etika yang kita tunjukkan ketika berada di tengah-tengah orang banyak, seperti cara berpakaian, berjabat tangan, dan berjalan. Temperamen adalah sifat dasar kita yang dipengaruhi oleh kode genetika orang tua, kakek nenek, dan kakek buyut dan nenek buyut kita. Sedangkan karakter adalah respon kita yang benar (positif) atau tidak benar (negatif) ketika kita mengalami tekanan, tantangan dan kesulitan.

Karakter terbentuk dengan dipengaruhi oleh paling sedikit lima faktor, yaitu: temperamen dasar kita (dominan, intim, stabil, cermat), keyakinan (apa yang kita percayai, paradigma), pendidikan (apa yang kita ketahui, wawasan kita), motivasi hidup (apa yang kita rasakan, semangat hidup) dan Perjalanan (apa yang telah kita alami, masa lalu kita, pola asuh dan lingkungan). Karakter dibentuk tidak diciptakan, harus melalui proses. Benar ada karakter dasar yang memuat kekuatan dan kelebihan kita.

We Can All Try It

None of us want to teach selfish, rowdy, ungrateful, undisciplined, prejudiced students. How can we encourage them the right direction ?

First of all, character education experts encourage us to promote character in the way we conduct our classrooms. If we treat our students fairly and show compassion, we model positive character for them. Or, rather than just learning the facts about great person, why not go further and explore some of the character traits that made him successful ? Further, we can find ways to incorporate it into our curriculum.

Teachers Can Impact Character

Studies have confirmed that we can impact the character of many of our students. Schools that implement a positive character program often survey students from year to year and find school climate changing – their classmates and teachers exhibiting more kindness, compassion and tolerance. Studies also find that as we promote positive character, grades go up. It only makes sense when we think about it. When students exhibit character traits like tolerance, students can concentrate on studies rather than being distracted by the intolerant. When students exhibit diligence, they complete their assignments.

KISI-KISI MATERI LOMBA OSTN SMK TINGKAT PROVINSI JAWA TENGAH SEPTEMBER 2011

OLIMPIADE SAINS TERAPAN NASIONAL SEKOLAH (OSTN)

MENENGAH KEJURUAN (SMK)

TINGKAT PROVINSI JAWA TENGAH KE IV

TAHUN 2011

SEMARANG 22 – 25SEPTEMBER 2011

 

Bidang Lomba

MATEMATIKA TEKNOLOGI,
MATEMATIKA NON TEKNOLOGI,
FISIKA TERAPAN,
KIMIA TERAPAN,
BIOLOGI TERAPAN,
ICT
KIS (KARYA ILMIAH SISWA)

KERJASAMA

DINAS PENDIDIKAN PROVINSI JAWA TENGAH

FAKULTAS MIPA UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO

 

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Our Schools

Schools should also reinforce parental efforts to teach children good character and basic Indonesia values-including respect, responsibility, fairness, and hard work. As educators, content is not the espoused curriculum, but a mere map by which we navigate students to an understanding. Within that understanding students should be provided hands-on learning experiences that apply directly to life skills. These life skills can be provided through classroom that allow students to practice responsible leadership skills, learn positive social behavior and develop essential citizenship skills. Our students must be surrounded in the education environment with professional educators who emulate character traits such as integrity, courage, trustworthiness, and compassion.

Educators

Now educators are faced with a multitude of research and pedagogy that must be dissected and analyzed in order to design the effective lessons that have character education embedded within their process.  Effective lesson plans for today are not the lesson plans of yesterday. Educators want students to be well-rounded, productive citizens; therefore, when designing effective instructional strategies, they must do effective research-based knowledge that will incorporate the reinforcement of character education.

Character education can not be taught as a separate curriculum, but must be entwined in all curriculums.

Character Education is Not a Quick-Fix Program

Character education is not a quick-fix program; it is a part of school life. The question becomes who is responsible for reinforcing age-old qualities of character? The classroom could be one arena to reinforce, model, and practice positive character traits on a daily basis; therefore, the teacher is central to character education. The processes (classroom strategies utilized and environment created) within the classroom are critical. Effective lesson plans for today are not the lesson plans of yesterday. If educators want students to exhibit positive character traits, it is obvious a different way of thinking regarding the educational system can allow students to "grow" with character and dignity, but only if educators provide an innovative teaching and learning environment that continuously incorporates our common core of character traits: respect, responsibility, fairness, and hard work.