Rabu, 12 Januari 2011

BUILD LEADERSHIP BY SCOUTING ACTIVITIES



Children are generation of our nation, because they must build their character, their knowledge and their skill. Children are generation of this nation leader. The educator have obligation for developing them. If our children aren’t have skill for competition in the world so educators is bad.

Leadership building for children is not easy, because it need method from educator for teaching them. Leadership education can’t verbalism but leadership education must apply by student.

The leadership education isn’t only lead of the line, or lead for praying. But, leadership education is learning for universal lead. Student must lead their selves, their friend of group and they must lead society next time.

Scouting activity is a method for teaching student about leadership education. They’ll be trained about management, braveness, speak in front of peoples and taken a grip on.

There are some problems of teaching education like as:
1. Students have high egoism yet.
2. Students have high shy yet.
3. Students are not brave yet.
4. Students are not understanding about some instruction of teacher.

Some problems above can anticipation by some method of scouting activity.

Scouting Activity Description

Scouting activity is activity of Indonesian Scout. It is develop by Indonesian Scout Organization. The Indonesian Scout Organization born on August 14th in 1961. This Organization has 40 billion members now.

Member of Indonesian Scout have a principle. They mention it by Tri Satya and Dasa Dharma. All members must application Tri Satya and Dasa Darma in their life as life principle. Content of their principle is about good character, skill, society. If we look education of Indonesian scout so we can mention about scouting education is developing head, hear, and hand.

Head
In this category we can main that Indonesian Scout Education is developing knowledge. Member of this organization will be trained how they think.

Heart
This category we can main that Indonesian scout is developing emotional and spiritual. Member of this organization will be trained how managing their emotional in order to can managing their selves.

Hand
This category main Indonesian scout developing skill, this is very useful by someone for living in this world. We can image if someone don’t have skill so they’ll suffer in the world.

For creating categories of above many job must do by educator. It is:
1. Educator must have real program
All jobs if don’t have planning, so don’t hope that job will success. Then, this method of scouting activity must have good planning. And that program must have long oriented. The program of scouting must have universal development.

2. Educator must creating creative, innovative and effective activities.
Many activities give to student, but we must examine, what that activities effective for build student? Creating creative, innovative and effective activities must do by educator. If we aren’t creating interest activities so our program will dislike by student.

3. Don’t give talk very much.
Student will fill boring if educator or teacher gave them talk very much. So we must give them talk less.

4. Educator must have democracy character.
Educators aren’t commander of army or military. But, educators are someone who gives knowledge to students. We don’t give them instruction like as commander to army. But, our job is teaching and examine to them.

5. Give them a freedom for build their selves
We must give them a freedom while make a program. But, the freedom for them must have a limit. We must aim them for success program. In this context the student must can lead and be led.


This is picture while we discussion about implement 1st Scouting Group Contest.

They are leader from all students. And they are implement about this discussion. Teacher only open this meeting.
Condition while discussion

The profit of this method is:
1. Teacher isn’t needs extra energy to aim all students, because there are some students to be leader for their friend.
2. Student will be trained for their leadership.
3. Student will be trained about speak in front of peoples.
4. Student will be trained about management of an organization.

This method gave output achievement, like as:
1. The graduates of Cimangkok Elementary School get some achievement in Junior High School.
I talked at end semester with graduated of Cimangkok Elementary School by face book. His name is Ahmad Dzahby. He say to me that he get 7th rank in their class in Al – Ghazali Junior High School. And I ask to him about his leadership. He say to me that he is recruited by their friend in there be chairman of School intra student organization.

2. Some graduates of Cimangkok Elementary School be leader in their next school, although in Cimangkok 
Elementary School they is low student or passive student.
I talked with graduates while I implemented 1st Scouting Group Contest. I talked with them about quality of Cimangkok Elementary School Graduates. They say that graduates of Cimangkok Elementary School have could compete with other school graduated in achievement. Graduates of Cimangkok Elementary School usually become leader in their class. They also said that low student be high student there.

Conclusion
I can get conclusion about this method that build leadership for student correct by scouting activity. Because in scouting activity student build not only theory but also they study about one by practice. They are built their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.  So, I think this method very correctly for leadership developing.

Teacher in this method is as facilitator about student. Therefore teachers must build their selves about their knowledge, about their skill and about their emotional.

Proven in Cimangkok Elementary School the graduates get some achievement and some students in there have leadership very good.

Sabtu, 11 Desember 2010

Angin Nopember

Karya: Iwan Abdurachman
Angin yang berhembus
di akhir Nopember
Bawa kisah dan lagu
dari angin lalu


Angin yang berhembus
bawa kisah tentang dia
yang datang dan berlalu
bagai angin lalu


Lembut kau datang menegurku
Ku kira tak 'kan berlalu

Minggu, 14 November 2010

Tunas Gugur

Yth. Bpk. Idim Dimyati, S.Ag.

Tetes-tetes air hujan membasahi pertiwi
laksana tetesan airmata yang deras
airmata dari setiap jiwa yang tergugah

Merah putih di leher kini basah bersatu dengan darah
dan seragam coklat-coklat pun memerah
penuh dengan siraman darah segar

Terasa waktu berhenti
terasa angin tak bertiup
ketika engkau melepas jiwa di pangkuan pertiwi

Kini ...
tinggallah nisan berdiri di tanah merah
mengubur raga yang berjasa pada negara
ketika hidup membela nusa bangsa dan agama.

Selasa, 02 November 2010

Pidato Upacara Bendera

Assalamu’alaikum wr.wb.

Yang terhormat ibu kepala SD Negeri Cimangkok, Dewan Guru yang kami hormati, Para Orangtua, dan Anak-anak yang berbahagia.
Puji dan syukur marilah kita panjatkan kehadirat Tuhan Yang Maha Kuasa, bahwa pada hari ini kita dapat berdiri tegap di bumi pertiwi ini dengan keadaan sehat.

Anak-anak yang berbahagia, ada beberapa hal yang harus bapak amanatkan pada upacara kali ini. Pertama bapak amanatkan kepada kalian, bahwa sekolah ini akan timbul tenggelam dengan warganya. Siapa warga sekolah ini. Warga sekolah ini terdiri dari kepala sekolah, guru, penjaga murid dan orang tua siswa sebagai masyarakat. Apabila keseluruhan itu tidak ada persatuan dan kesatuan maka niscaya sekolah ini tidak akan mendapatkan prestasi apapun. Selain itu, peranan anak-anak sekalian sebagai siswa merupakan ujung tombak dalam membangun sekolah ini, mari kita lihat sebuah tombak! Jika tombak itu tidak tajam, maka tombak itu tidaklah dikatakan bagus, tidaklah dikatakan hebat atu mungkin tidak pula dikatakan berguna. Nah, oleh karena itu kalian sebagai ujung tombak hendaknya memiliki sikap juang yang setajam ujung tombak.

Anak-anak sekalian kita perlu sadari bahwa banyak sekali tantangan yang akan kita hadapi kelak di kemudian hari, salah satu di antaranya perlombaan, ulangan umum dan kegiatan-kegiatan yang lainnya yang menyangkut harkat dan martabat kita sebagai pelajar dan sebagai warga sekolah ini. Oleh karena itu, mari kita kobarkan api perjuangan dalam menghadapi segala tantangan dan ujian. Kita tidaklah boleh berdiam diri dalam kekelaman, kita tidaklah boleh berdiam diri dalam menghadapi sebuah tantangan. Tapi kita haruslah bangkit menyalakan api semangat yang berkobar. Mari, kobarkan, kobarkan, dan kobarkan api perjuangan kita. Masa depan sekolah ini adalah tanggung jawab kita bersama.
Anak-anak sekalian bapak titipkan kepada kalian, “lebih baik mandi keringat dalam belajar dan berlatih daripada mandi air mata setelah mendapatkan raport atau hasil sebuah kegiatan”. Bapak tekankan sekali lagi “lebih baik mandi keringat dalam belajar dan berlatih daripada mandi air mata setelah mendapatkan raport dan hasil sebuah kegiatan. Oleh karena itu, tidak ada lagi leha-leha, tidak ada lagi bersantai-santai dalam hari-hari kita. Kecuali kalian ingin mandi air mata di akhir nanti.

Anak-anak sekalian kita tidaklah boleh mengeluh dengan keadaan yang susah payah, dengan keadaan yang melelahkan karena emas, logam bercahya itu diterpa dilandasan dan di uji di dalam api, maka dari itu jika kita mendapat terpaan yang sangat keras maka itu adalah suatu upaya agar kalian dapat berkilau seperti emas, agar kalian dapat menjadi orang-orang yang terpadang dan berguna bagi manusia lainnya.

Anak-anak sekalian sekali lagi mari kita singsingkan lengan baju kita dalam mencari ilmu guna untuk membangun bangsa kita tercinta. Sebab siapa lagi yang akan meneruskan tongkat kepemimpinan bangsa ini kalau bukan kalian sebagai tunas-tunasnya. Kita persiapkan dari mulai sekarang bagaimana agar kita dapat memegang amanah kelak di suatu hari nanti.

Anak-anak sekalian rupanya amanat dari bapak cukup sekian, selamat berjuang.
Billahi fii sabilil hak wal ‘afu minkum
Wassalamu’alaikum wr. wb.


Cimangkok, 25 Oktober 2010
Pembina,                                

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Yana Mulyana