Dedeh Suatini

I am coming back

2009-01-05T19:10:00.001-08:00

Having got so many activities, I am going to write again in this blog.
May this will help you all.

Lesson Study

2007-04-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

It is held in Bumi Makmur Indah Lembang, on December 1-5, 2007
Lesson Study comes from Japan. It is a model of professional construction of educators through learning research collaboratively and continuously based on collegiality and mutual learning to build learning community, collaboratively both in subject matter and teaching method. Firstly they analyze teaching learning problem and later they find the solution which based on students centered. Secondly, one teacher implement teaching learning process while the others act as collaborator to observe its process. Finally they will make reflection to make a better one.

Training for Indonesian English Teacher

2007-04-08T19:29:00.000-07:00

The Upgrading Competency of Senior High School English Teacher Training Program in Jakarta Teachers Training Development Center for Teachers at Parung on 9-18 December 2007
The purpose of this training is providing English teachers to gain the competency to develop teaching administration based on English “KTSP” ( Educational School Level Curriculum) in Senior High School, and preparing them to be the agents of change to distribute their abilities to other English teachers in their regions.. The participants is 75 English teachers from 12 provinces in Indonesia. Every teacher must have professional, pedagogic, social and personality competency. It is necessary to up grade teachers’ competency to attaint the demand of the regulations as well increasing the quality of instructional process of school.
This program was held by Directorate General for Quality Improvement of Teacher and Education Personnel through Directorate Profession

British Council Assisstant Director of Creativity and Learning in Indonesia

2007-04-08T19:23:00.000-07:00

From left to right: Christopher, Vivin (St.Angela English teacher). Dedeh S (SMAN 24 ET), one of PPPG staff, Meike (PPPG staff), Wiwin (SMAN 3 ET), Ibu Teriska (the head of PPPG Tulis), Ida ( SMAN 5 ET), Yusuf (St.Aloysius ET

Christopher Palmer, Assistent Director of Creativity and Learning at British Council Jakarta is holding Flat asep. British Council gives many supports for Indonesian teachers in finding partner from UK and give collaborative projects from Montage in gobal gateway. (16-11-2006)

The Director of British Council of Indonesia

2007-04-08T19:11:00.000-07:00

Mark Hardy, the Director of British Council in Indonesia is holding Flat Asep from SMAN 24 Bandung and me. Flat Stanley project is one on my students favourite one. We make flat stanley exchange with some countries. I hope my students can make Flat Stanley exchange with all countries in the worl. We have got partner from USA, UK, Thailand

Dreams andTeams Activity

2007-03-08T22:43:00.000-08:00

From left to right : Mia Anissa from British Council Indonesia, David Mathias from British Council Thailand as the Head of Committee of Dreams and Teams in Malaysia, Dwi Arie Kurniawan (XIA-4), Mrs.Dedeh Suatini, Vernida Murfidah (XI-1)

The students from UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippine, Taiwan, and Singapore (65) are giving instructions to 300 Elementary students as participants of Mini Olimpic. This is the main event of Dreams and Teams activity. In this event they learn how to organize, manage, lead and get confidence to speak English in front of many people using English as a main tool for communication. 300 Elementary students in Malaysia get involved happily in this event.

MegaconferenceJunior 2007

2007-02-02T22:29:00.000-08:00

I organize 7 schools in Bandung (SMAN 3, 5, 8, 23, 24, St,Angela, BPK Penabur) to join Megaconference Junior http://www.megaconferencejr.org/
.It is the first time for Indonesia to join this event and we are one of the presenter. I trained 24 students from all schools to prepare for the presentation together with all their teachers. I hope The teachers can join it by themselves next year. There are 200 school participants and 24 presenters which are selected by the coordinator. We are supported by ITB (Institute Technology of Bandung). We are successfully promoted Indonesia through presentation of Traditional Dance, Instrument, Unique animal, Special Food, Festival and Tourist Object.
All the principals, the head of principal, legislative person and Journalist see this event.

2007-01-31T22:24:00.000-08:00

Inside and Outside Circle ( January, 31, 2007)This is one of Best Practice strategy in teaching argumentative speaking. I try to motivate my students by bringing them out of class and let them speak freely to communicate each other. I teach in big class with 48 students. I divide them into two groups. Each group consists of 24 students who are divided to two groups. One is inside and the other is in outside.

In order the outside students pay attention to their friends, I give task to every tudents as

observer. They have a task to observe their friends differently. Every student has to focus in his/her task while students who are in inside are busy speaking and giving their arguments. It works well.

I also practice best practice in making rubric in my class. Finally they make performance in story telling. It works well because the students know the rule exactly in what they have to do for having an excellent mark.
I have implemented some best practices that I had from East West Center that made me teach in various methods and strategies. I am so happy to know that my students look happier in studying English.

East West Center In Honolulu

2006-09-21T20:39:00.000-07:00

I have been joining Implementing Best Practise and Learning Across Culture in East West Center, Honolulu. It is held from September, 16, 2006 to October 7, 2006 in two places. The first week we are in Hawaii, and then go to Mainland with different states. I am going to New York on Saturday. I will be staying there fo 5 days and come back to Hawaii for a week and go back to Indonesia to share manything I have to my friends in Indonesia.
It is so exciting that I learn many things from this course.
We learn many different cultures as well as the similirities among Indonesian, Thailand and American.
Above is the picture when we were going to North shore. Hawaii has a beutiful view

All participants who are from USA, Indonesia and Thailand

Huma, Ani, her friends (Scarsdale stdents), Sukma, Sofaidah, Rachaya and me in Scarsdale The right photo is we are welcomed by some teachers in Sue's house. American people are so great. They are very great host. I really feel at home here.

The Principal of Scarsdale Secondary school who accompany us take a look around Scarsdale, one of the best school in New York. I am lucky to have a great apportunity to come to this school. I learn many things in this school. Almost all teachers implement Best Practice here.

MGMP Kota Bandung
19-20 December 2007 at SMAN 5 Bandung
Improving Academic writing skill and Implementing Best Practices. On this ocation, Ms.Agustin gave explanation how to practice
Inside and outside circle in Multiple Intelligent implementation. About 35 English teachers in Bandung participated. They were so happy that they got a new experience in having best practice in new teaching learning strategy.

I implemented inside and outside sircle in my class. It worked well with 48 students. They were so happy and excited so much.

24 students who stayed inside talking about television programs. While the other 24 students stayed outside as observers. After having finished this, they gave feedback to other students. I got surprised when the observers gave feedback in detail.

FIRST WINNER OF WEST JAVA PROVINCE BEST ACHIEVEMENT TEACHER

2006-08-21T17:30:00.000-07:00

Every year the government holds Best Achievement Teachers competition. It begins from school level, city, province and finally National.
As I was chosen School winner of Best Achievement Teacher in teaching English through website, I took a city competition level. In this competition, I had some tests such as educational knowledge, government rules for teacher, an action research paper presentation of what we had taught to our students, interview to some students, colleagues, headmaster and supervisor by the judges about our personality.
I was chosen as the first winner in my city and I had to join Province Teacher Competition.
In this competition, I became the first winner for Senior High School teacher. Therefore I joined National Competition in Jakarta. We had 2 full day tests. The schedule started from 7.30 a.m to 10 pm. Having finished the test we had some session which represented by very good keynote speakers such as Kak Seto, I Gede Raka, Soemarno Soedarsono and the committee brought us to legislative building to hear Indonesian President speech and we went to Indonesian President Palace to have Indonesian Independence Ceremony. Finally Mr.Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonsian President, invited us to come to Sahid Hotel to have a photo taken together. It was a wonderful time I have ever had. Although I didn’t win in National Competition, I had so many exciting experiences, learned many things and had a lot of friends around Indonesia.
Here is some photos :

From left to the right: Mr.Furqon, (Elementery teacher), Ms.Yuyus, (Kinder Garten teacher), Mr.Abi Herang (the head of ProvinceBPG), Ms.Teriska (the head of West Java LPMP), Mr.Dadang Dally (the head of West Java Educational office), Mr.Karnadi (Junior teacher), Ms.Dedeh Suatini (Senior High School teacher), Ms.Nani ( SLB teacher).

West Java Province in National Competition. From left to the right: Mr.Ahmad Furqon, me with flat Asep, Ms.Nani, Ms.Yuyus and Mr.Karnadi

EVALUATION TEAM FROM BRITISH COUNCIL ENGLAND (UK) AND INDONESIA VISITED BANDUNG

2006-04-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

Evaluation team from British Council Indonesia and UK came to Bandung on 15th April 2006 to have evaluation of Montage Projects as well as Link up between Indonesia and UK. They are David W Taylor, Educational Consultant from British Council London Dominic Regester, Senior development Officer, Worl Links, British Council London, Itje, British Council Consultant in Indonesia and Endro Catur, Information Officer, Development and Education British Council Indonesia..
They met me as Montage-Bandung Coordinator, and Ibu Teriska, the Head of West Java LPMP at Hyatt hotel at 8.15 a.m.
They wanted to know the development of Montage-bandung and the problem as well.

Having talked for about 40 minutes, we came to SMAN 3 Bandung to have Group Discussion Forum among the teachers and students who have been involved in Montage project and have link up with UK.The participants of it is 32. They were from SMAN 3, SMAN 5, SMAN 11, SMAN 23, SMAN 24, SMA BPK Penabur !, SMA BPK Penabur 3, SMA St.Angela and SMPN 13 Bandung.
They filled out the form given by British Council and discussed about projects they have done. They were also asked about the problem they had and what they supposed to have in future.
Having discussed about it in groups, one student of every group made a presentation in front of class, reading the result of the discussion. This discussion lead by Ibu Itje , The Consultant of British Council Indonesia. David wrote all the students and teachers result. While Dominic asked many question about Montage problem in Bandung
The result of GDF is :
1. Some students are still confused joining Montage project. There are so many links to join it.
2. Some students who have joined Montage projects feel boring for they cannot communicate with other students directly
3. The student who wrote about her mom in My hero project feel more respect to her mother.
4. The students wanted to make a club of Montage-Bandung where they can share their experience in joining different projects.
5. They hope their school can give more internet facility for them
6. They hope British Council can give fund for the facility they need.
7. They expect to have link up with UK in one online board where they can exchange and share their culture to have mutual understanding.
8. Some teachers found it was difficult to find out partners from UK
9. Most the students enjoy joining Montage project.

I finally told them that they had a very good idea for they wanted to have a club of Montage-Bandung. I also told them that UK and Indonesia would make link up, soon,
All students were happy to have the Group Discussion forum like this.
They hoped it would be held regularly.

Dedeh Suatini
Montage-Bandung Coordinator
PR of Jip Kota Bandung

AVON VALLEY COLLEGE TEACHERS FROM UK VISITING SMAN 24 BANDUNG

2006-04-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

Having made correspondence for about 6 months, we finally met face to face with Avon Valley College teachers at Sierra which has a very wonderful view in Bandung. They are, David James Macaulay, an Art teacher, Lucy Mary Goodhew, an English teacher, Linsey Baron, a sport teacher and Lee James Edward, a business teacher as a coordinator.. I would like to say thank to British Council and LPMP Batujajar which have facilitated our meeting. They would stay at LPMP for 3 days.
It was a wonderful time to meet them as we have failed meeting on video conference before..
Marc Jessel, an Assistant Director of Education from British council said in his speech that Tony Blair, Prime Minister from England came to Jakarta to have officially declared of Indonesian Global Gateway. Tony Blair hoped that there would be one thousand link up between Indonesia and UK. It will be a good chance to some Indonesian schools for having partner from UK.
At the same time, Marc Jessel gave a prize for the winners of Montage-Bandung Competition. SMAN 24 as the first winner, SMAN 23 as second winner and SMAN 5 as third winner. Each winner got a digital camera which will be very important for the teachers to join projects..
They came to SMAN 24 Bandung on april, 8, 2006 for experiencing teaching in class and then made discussion forum for sharing experience in teaching.
Some teachers from some schools joined this forum such as I.Ida from SMAN 5, I.Yanti from 23, I. Elly, I.Santi, P.Sofyan and me from 24 Bandung, I. Dede from SMAN Karawang 1, P.Yusuf from SMA ALOYSIUS, and I.Helly from SMPN 13 Bandung..
We finally decided to make 2 projects. They are Flat Stanley exchange and Tourist object exchange.
In flat Stanley exchange, Avon Valley College brought 12 stanleys which were exchanged with various flat from 7 schools in Bandung.. Some students in Bandung will make adventure to some places in Bandung and take pictures. Finally they will send them including their report. So do students in UK. Finally they will exchange information about both countries and we hope they will learn many things from the differences as well as similarities. This project will end in the end of July,
Our second project is exchanging tourist objects such as building, food, handcrafts and many things that are popular in each country. We will put them in the same website so that students in each school can see it. Finally we will download all students report and make a booklet of it. It will be a good result of our Link up between Wiltshire in England and Bandung in Indonesia. We will end this project in the end of October 2006.
We ended the meeting at about 3.30 pm and took them to Saung Angklung Udjo.
At the end of the meeting,
Lucy who is an English teacher from Avon Valley College wrote a comment in SMAN 24 website. Here is what she wrote:

. I feel very privileged to have been invited to SMAN24 to visit. I have been overwhelmed at how friendly and welcoming both students and staff are. I had so much fun talking to the class 3 Science 2. They all wanted to learn and understand about schools in England. I was so surprised by the size of the class. In England the classes are half the size with about 28 students.At snack time I was introduced to traditional Indonesian snacks. With all the different colours and tastes, i thought they were delicious. As well as enjoying my snack I was entertained by students who were playing traditional Indonesian musical instruments. I was so impressed. The students at SMAN24 seem very happy to be at school. As a teacher it is really good to see.I have enjoyed myself so much at your school this morning that i would like to come back and teach here again. Thank you for being so welcoming.

We would like to say thank you all. Your visiting make our students were happy. May we will be a good partner in a good relationship.

Special thank to Ibu Teriska, the head of LPMP Batujajar, west Java, who has welcomed the visitors so well. At farewel party held by West Java LPMP , the head of LPMP gave a present to each teachers from Avon Valley College and They gave a present from their school in return.

Dedeh Suatini
English teacher at SMAN 24 Bandung
Bandung Montage Coordinator

My Hero project Coordinator comment

2006-03-13T18:33:00.000-08:00

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:52:54 -0800 (PST)
From: "dedeh suatini" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Re: SMAN 24 Bandung-Indonesia
To: "Margaret Dean" margaret@myheroproject.org

Hi Margareth,

Thank you very much for sending me more DVDs, flyers and stickers. I'll give them to my friends as a coordinator montage in Indonesia.

I'll check all the names whose essays have not published yet. I'll sent it to you in couple days.

On 6th December 2005 there will be an Educational Exhibition in West Java Province office. All Head Masters and students in West Java Province are supposed to see it. My school become a representative from secondary school and I'll display all students work which have been published in some web sites from Montageworld. My Hero is one of them.If I could ask my friend to shoot the opening ceremony of it, I'll do it. On that day I'll go with some students from some schools to make video conference in Jakarta with students from UK.
I would like to say thank you because of this project many people become aware to join some global projects. My Hero always provides sources that I need. It really help me so much.

BTW, have I sent you some photoes I took on Montage Exhibition? Here they are

I am looking forward to having My Hero's material.

Best regards,

Dedeh S

Margaret Dean wrote:
Hi Dedeh,Yes, I remember you. I am glad you have found the MY HERO DVDs to behelpful. We are putting together a package of more DVDs, flyers andstickers for you. We will be sending the package to you in the nextcouple of days.You mentioned that some of your friend's students' hero stories were notpublished. If you could send me a list of the students whose stories werenot published, I would be happy to do a search to find out what happened.We would be very interested in receiving some stories about people whohave been involved in the tsunami relief effort, as well as more storiesabout local Indonesian community heroes.We look forward to reading more of your students' stories!

Best regards

Margaret DeanThe MY HERO Project

GLOBAL WATER SAMPLING

2006-03-13T17:56:00.000-08:00

A COMMENT FROM GLOBAL WATER SAMPLING COORDINATOR

Date:
Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:11:36 -0500
From: "Liesl Hotaling"
Subject: RE: The global Water Sampling from SMAN 24 Bandung-Indonesia
To: "'dedeh suatini'" dedeh_suatini@yahoo.com
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Thank you very much and we hope that you can join us for another run of the Global Water Sampling Project or participate in one of our many other projects. It is always a pleasure to have such high caliber teachers and students involved with our projects.
Liesl
Liesl Hotaling
Assistant Director
Center for Innovation in Engineering
and Science Education
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
V (201) 216 - 5019
F (201) 216 - 8069
lhotalin@stevens.edu
http://www.ciese.org

Some comments from Project Coordinator

2006-03-13T17:48:00.000-08:00

The comment given by Flat stanley Project coordinator

Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:58:22 -0500
From:"Dale Hubert"
To: "dedeh suatini"
Subject: Re: Flat Asep from SMAN 24 Bandung-Indonesia
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I have published the latest Flat Asep to http://www.flatstanley.com/mainpage.htm There was already a title in the Picture Gallery called "Flat Asep" so I renamed it to "Flat Asep from 24 Senior High School" and called this one "Flat Asep from Bandung."I must say I was very impressed with the way you sent your latest contribution. Usually I have to spend a great deal of time adding pictures but the way you sent them this time allowed me to simply add two files.I hope you like the way it looks. Thank you for supporting the Flat Stanley Project. You have made many wonderful contributions.
Dale

Dale Hubert, M.Ed.
Creator and Facilitator, Flat Stanley Project
www.flatstanley.com

Date:
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:13:19 -0500
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To: "dedeh suatini"
Subject: Re: Fwd: Flat Stanley from Bandung--Indonesia
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Congratulations on your recognition from CitiBank.I have made the changes you requested and I hope the names are all correct now. As for the Bogor images, do you mean an entire article or individual pictures from within an article? I still have several articles to add to the Flat Stanley Project that have been sent to me by other participants in the world, but I don't see any from Indonesia still waiting to be added. Please resend the Bogor ones and I will look after publishing them.I am very pleased that we have made this connection and I hope the Flat Stanley Project and students from Indonesia will enjoy a very long and successful relationship.
Dale

Dale Hubert, M.Ed.
Creator and Facilitator of the Flat Stanley Project
http://www.flatstanley.com/

London, Ontario, Canada

Date:
Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:17:04 -0500
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To: "dedeh suatini"
Subject: Re: Fwd: Flat Stanley from Bandung--Indonesia
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Thank you for the reminder. I have added the items to the Flat Angela sections of the Indonesia Flat Stanley section http://www.flatstanley.com/picture_gallery.htmlI really like the artwork of the flat character.
Dale

Dale Hubert, M.Ed.
Creator and Facilitator of the Flat Stanley Project
http://www.flatstanley.com/

London, Ontario, Canada

Date:
Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:10:52 -0500
From: "Dale Hubert"
To: "dedeh suatini"
Subject:
Re: Flat Asep from SMAN 24 Bandung-Indonesia
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I very much appreciate your enthusiasm and support. I realize it sometimes takes me longer than expected to publish contributions. I recently returned from a holiday in Mexico and found 1150 e-mail messages in my inbox.I am very impressed with the quality of the contributions from Indonesia and I hope you will keep sending them to me.
Dale

Dale Hubert, M.Ed.
Creator and Facilitator, Flat Stanley Project
http://www.flatstanley.com/
London, Ontario, Canada

Date:
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:19:20 -0500
From: "Dale Hubert"
To: "dedeh suatini"
Subject: Re: Flat Asep from SMAN 24 Bandung-Indonesia
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Thank you for your note.It is not necessary to register before taking part. I post pictures and notes from unregistered classes as well as those that have registered.I have had a wonderful response from Indonesia. Thank you for spreading the word about the Flat Stanley Project.
Dale

Dale Hubert, M.Ed.
Creator and Facilitator, Flat Stanley Project
http://www.flatstanley.com/
London, Ontario, Canada

dedeh suatini wrote:
Dear Dale Hubert,
I would like to ask you some questions. Having taught some teachers in Bandung, There are some of them who will join Flat Asep but they haven.t registered yet or registered it a long time ago, such as Mrs.Musdiyanty from SMAN 23 Bandung.She has sent you her students work. And Miss Vivin from ST.Angela will send you too.
Should they register first? could they register later?
I have been spreading Flat Stanley project in Bandung to some teachers and there will be many of some schools in Bandung will join it.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Dedeh SDale Hubert wrote:
I have published the latest Flat Asep to http://www.flatstanley.com/mainpage.htm There was already a title in the Picture Gallery called "Flat Asep" so I renamed it to "Flat Asep from 24 Senior High School" and called this one "Flat Asep from Bandung."I must say I was very impressed with the way you sent your latest contribution. Usually I have to spend a great deal of time adding pictures but the way you sent them this time allowed me to simply add two files.I hope you like the way it looks. Thank you for supporting the Flat Stanley Project. You have made many wonderful contributions.

2006-02-22T18:34:00.000-08:00