The big problem education in indonesia is about process on learning. Some of teacher still using old method to deliver the knowledge to student with memorize. I think not all teacher in the modern era still using this method, its about your self to manage your class and how you treat your student to understand about any chapter on some subject.
Memorize is one of method that force the student to understand the subject or material on short time. This methode is become habit for the teacher to efficient their time. Especially that in one semester there are so many material, but the teacher only have limit of time. So sometimes the teacher ask the student to reading all material in the house by self.
Memorize all the subject is not good for student, because not all student have some ability to fast absorb the material on short time. The student that have standart ability, may take more time to understand each subject. I think the student will confuse because not only one subject that they have to memorized, but momore. Memorize to many materials is only make the student down and does not have passion in the learning.
The student will boring and never enjoy with the learning. As the teacher we must to understand that not all material on some subject are good using memorize method. Sometimes teacher must change their method proper with the material. Teacher also must remember that if the material only deliver by reading, i believe that the result will not good.
Other method like practical and discuss to solve some case, it will make the student to analyze the case and know how to solve the problem, it also fostering their problem solving skill. Its so sad especially for student in the elementary school, the learning process is dominate about memorize the material. So you can imagine, if your child study on islamic elementary school (MI) not only basic subject like science, social, math, art but also other islamic subject like fiqih, alqur'an hadist, akidah akhlak.
Many subject and a lot of memorize is only make student stress and not focus in the learning.Memorize is on process to put information into memory. Memorize change information into banking process or we usually called as coding. Memorize is like shortcut for the teacher to summary the material, but the method totally not good for young child who unable to manage their brain on many subject.Memorize also relate with the test.
We know that our test using multiple choice or one answer for one question. The ways to face this question type is by memorize. But this test type can't exlore the truly skill of each student. Memorize system not build reltion between information in the brain. Memorize also will give sign to our brain. The consequent is, if the process we stop it, so slowly the sign will fade.
We as teacher not always ask the student to memorize but we can give oppurtunity for student to create spaces for base understanding in order to fast absorb the information in the next step. Many parent have misunderstanding about their child, if the child can memorize in the young age, so they think that the child will remember all one's life.
Its totally wrong, when they grow old make sure the child will forget the information, except the child always remember and always repeat the information. The last, what do you think that memorize not important for our child? Memorize is important and have positive impact, for example student can absorb information fastly, but the teacher is also remember that memorize is only help as tools and not as priority process in the learning.
Setiono (an islamic elementary school teacher)
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