Inspiring Teachers

In this life we know the two types of teachers: Teachers curriculum and inspiring teacher. The first one is very obedient to the curriculum and feel guilty if you can not transfer the entire contents of the books assigned. It teaches something standard (habitual thinking). Curriculum teachers representing 99% of all teachers I meet.

Inspiring teacher is very limited in number, the population is less than 1%. He is not the teachers who pursue a curriculum, but who took his students to think creatively (maximum thinking). He invites his students to see things from the outside (thinking out of box), change it on the inside, then brought back out into the wider community. If teachers curriculum managers reliable delivery, birth inspiring teacher-leaders who dare to destroy the reformer old habits.

The world needs both as we combine the internal validity (guarded by teachers curriculum) with external validity (which is controlled by an inspirational teacher) in the exploration of science. But unfortunately our school system only provides a place for teachers' curriculum. The existence of an inspirational teacher will determine how long a nation can emerge from the crisis. Increasingly restricted, the longer and more difficult to a nation out of the darkness.

Freedom Writers
The works of renewal, both spectacular scientific discoveries, commercial products, as well as social movements will appear in public. But can not deny it all starts from school. From the hands and minds of inspirational teachers who agitated and saw the need for creativity. He improved things to many people can not be repaired, and connecting the things that are not connected (connecting the unconnected).

The story and work of inspirational teachers, among others, can be seen in Erin Gruwell, the teacher placed women in a class of "stupid", which the students are often involved violence between gangs. In contrast to the next class which is a collection of "honors students", which has a DNA smart and disciplined. In the honors classes are teachers required curriculum.
Erin started with all the difficulties. In addition he said "stupid" and undisciplined, they are a lot of fighting, gang violence involved, harassing each other, tempramen, and always violent. At waist high school kids are only there was a gun or cocaine. Outside the school they threaten and kill each other.

Grade class was discarded. For teachers the curriculum, children should not be super naughty together distinguised schooled scholars. But Erin did not quit, he had made the "curriculum" of his own. The curriculum was not containing the teachings of common knowledge (hard skills), but knowledge of life.

He began with a game (online games) with the draw a red line on the floor and divide them into two groups on the left and right. If you answered "yes" they should approach the line. Starting with minor questions, from favorite music albums, to gang membership, drug possession and served jail time or have a friend who died from violence between gangs.

Line games together bad boys who suddenly see that their common fate. Equally anxious, life is full of threats, suspicious of other groups and had no future. They began to be more relaxed against teachers and friends and agreed to renew relationships with each other. After the peace, inspiring teachers distribute books, from biographies of Anne Frank, who became victims of Nazi crimes, until the diary. The children were asked to write his life story, whatever. They write freely. Their works together, and titled Freedom Writers (FW). Disciples of change, their lives become better and many have become agents of change in society. Teachers inspirational story and the changes experienced by these children documented in the film, starring Hilary Swank FW.

Out of bondage
What does Erin Gruwell was not only limited to basic education, but also on higher education. But somehow our education these days increasingly isolating itself from the outside world and only wants to produce graduates who are shackled by the curriculum.

The so-called professor is a lecturer in the submissive role model to follow the curriculum, writing scientific papers in certain journals that have been determined (though readers may not be sufficient), and diligently to fill absences. Kazuo Murakami Hear protest., Ph.D., award-winning Max Planck (1990) who wrote the book of God in our genes: The Devine Message of The DNA (2007). He had emigrated to America as witnessed domination curriculum teachers in Japan who built the fortress of the hierarchy. Universities, he said, has become an ivory tower who do not care about what had happened outside.

Although not so prevalent in our society, the role inspirational teachers is needed. Moreover, our education budget is still very limited, and many graduates-graduates who can not work within the field of study taken. We can not suppress the birth of an obedient generation curriculum, academically smart, knows the truth internally, but less creative pan external righteousness and blind chance.

There are two problems that we need to ponder here. First, a lecturer in the curriculum only establish competencies (student's ABILITY). He was only formed a few people, for the sake of one's own. While inspiring teachers to form not just one or a group of people, but thousands of people. One person who was inspired to inspire others so often spoken sentence "I want to be like him" or "I can be a great anymore."

Second, the inability of educators responding to external pressures, can make them excessively fortify themselves by locking in a sacred curriculum. Every effort made for creative teachers meremajakannya regarded as a threat, even regarded as immoral deeds

I still remember very well, what happened to an inspirational teacher who is very familiar to me. In 2005 he received an award from the Creativity Development Foundation for his work in education. Similar awards in their respective fields was also given to Helmi Yahya, Jaya Suprana, Bang Yos, and Guruh Soekarno Putra. But not many know the days that he had just received a threat of dismissal for violating the "curriculum". The mistake is to have renewed the teaching methods so that students become more articulate. Delighted his students not mean other teachers happy. They are disturbed by the presentation outside of the curriculum and they demanded that the teachers are drawn. The next semester teaching her name removed from the list. Career gurubesarnya was complicated by a curriculum that teachers use a magnifying glass to test the internal truth.

Said Jagdish N. Sheth, so long denied those new realities, then they can be arrogant, stuck with the competence of the past, wanted a comfortable life, and establish territorial boundaries. Internal behavior is innertia shackles, which he calls the destructive habits. They use a microscope to enlarge the little things that do not possess.

It's time like this innertia fortress was abolished with "humanize" the curriculum by providing a more adequate space for creative teachers