While hanging in soft sunlight, hundreds of village boys and girls speak English in a free and playful way and manner as parrots. This sight is used in Bukik Batabuah, Agam regency in West Sumatra. This village is blessed with beautiful rice terraces and cool air. The road along the village turns into a place of learning English by hundreds of the foothills of Mount Singgalang located teenager. This intelligent breakthrough initiated by Romeo Rissal Panji Alam, a banker and a professional's English Power System while the place is named Global Village.
Global Village is designed as a center of human capital development, in which education focused on the formation of attitude, motivation, perseverance and ability. The program begins with a system to motivate students to speak English, followed by the development of their ability to provide in science and career guidance. Young people are trained to open their horizons, while other people come and stay, while various things of interest to learn and in the social and economic activities. Hopefully, the village is a cultural and educational tourism destination.
The essential approach of teaching at Global Village transformation to a fun-learning system. Teachers are not required to teach, but to manage learning with the English power system, whereby the motivation is training its foremost important aspect. Those village pay a visit it is interesting considering its uniqueness-English school without walls-Date Global Village is a great program, but the space does not increase in the classrooms in the streets of a town.
The entire program is derived from sound teaching ideas. Teachers, as princesses is known, the students perform. But the true teaching is carried out by the students themselves, known as Super Buddies. Each Super-Buddy has responsibility over a group of children and plans and directs activities.
They are individuals who are distinguished from the group in terms of learning and leadership, and are encouraged to develop activities and their own group lead by "friends" in English learning activities. They are the true teachers of the program, and therein lies the innovation. Children Children and learners learning lessons is amazingly effective and strengthened to teach the skills and knowledge for both parties. It also supports the development of leadership and other skills that these young people who take much in life, not only in English, but in their personal lives and their careers as well.
After visited
the place a few times, Jennifer Zirbes, an American and an English fellow, said that Global Village should be commended for its focus on authenticity. The program tries to use English in authentic activities and situations, by the hopes that prepare students for real life situations. It is often stated that the graduates are not able to speak a complete sentence, while English have studied during their student career, in fact all. Global Village is trying to resolve this issue through practical applications. many professional doors will open, and in the grand scheme of things is beneficial for the country of Indonesia as a whole a functional use of English to have.
Global Village
With Global village, not specialized in the classrooms, but in the streets of a city, the learning environment is exceptional. There is no classroom. Instead, the children gather in their groups along a narrow road in front of a farmhouse. The setting is natural and unforced, and adds a touch of fun, freedom and relaxation for the learning process. This need for positive reinforcement and an encouraging environment has to consider also been taken in the basic methodology of classes that train the Super Friends in. Each teacher who is worth their salt knows that the best learning occurs in an environment where negative emotions such as stress, pressure, anxiety and embarrassment are minimalized. In the global village, they have made some big steps forward in this direction with impressive results.
in its time of the search, was founded on July 7, Global Village 2012 Romeo, the father of the global village, mentioned that he actually has another Global Village in Ampalu village in Pariaman, West Sumatra. However, it is responsible for them for two teachers to achieve now a master's degree to pursue. He has a lot of requests get the same Global Village programs in Pekanbaru, Bandung and Bali set. In the past two months, Romeo and his team make preparations for the establishment of Global Village programs at Andalas University Campus, Sawahlunto-despite their attempts to seek teachers and find who are willing to work there and Talago village in Lima Puluh Kota regency.
media coverage and social media through their own members mostly done, but Romeo before and during the start of the program not only stood. The preparation began with courtesy of Mr. Stanley Harsha, US Consulate General in Medan, who helped the English Power System Start 25,2010 August with the presence of The remarkable Current tape from the United States in Padang. The teachers were trained by Mr Erans Williams of RELO (Regional English Language Office, the US embassy). Even Agam Regent Indra Cantri to the site via SMS invitation came for start officially the Global Village on July 7, expires in 2012. Romeo this program his own money so far with. He is still to find ways, as he and his team members want to help other villages.
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