Curriculum revision

Curriculum revision

The new learning strategy, according to Accelerated Learning
for the 21st Century, will follow the mnemonic method created by
Jayne Nicholl, author of Open Sesame. It comprises the following
steps: motivating your mind, acquiring information, searching out
the meaning, triggering memory, exhibiting what you know and
reflecting on how you have learned (Rose & J. Nicholl, 1997).

To improve the education system in Indonesia, rigorous and
drastic shifts have to be made with regard to the existing
curriculum system. Apart from the allocation of the budget,
teachers across the country should promptly realize that
traditional methods of presenting materials to students should be
in line with the on-going phenomena. That is, everything around
us changes constantly.

It is true that the accumulated wisdom of all ages, from all
parts of the world is our curriculum (William H. Schubert 1986:
14), but when the teaching strategy and the teachers themselves
remain uninnovative and uncreative, the educational output might
still be unchanged, thereby being outclassed by the education
systems of neighboring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

It is therefore high time educational authorities emphasized
that teachers should keep in mind that learning is not just
getting a good grade or simply taking down what teachers write on
the blackboard, but is a lifelong adventure.

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