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Ulasan Buku Teacher & Child oleh Dr Haim Ginott:

ACCEPTANCE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Teachers are told that children need understanding and acceptance. What they are not told is how to convey it under difficult classroom conditions. Communicating acceptance and understanding is a complex art with a unique language. Here are some guidelines:

In communicating with children there is a crucial difference between critical and uncritical messages. In making demands on children an uncritical message invites cooperation, a critical one engenders resistance. Examples:

A child interrupts his teacher.

TEACHER A: I Would like to finish my statement.

TEACHER B: You are very rude. You are interrupting.

Two boys are conversing while homework is being assigned.

TEACHER A: I am assigning homework now. It needs to be written down.

TEACHER B: Don't you have anything better to do than to talk? Why don't you start writing this down?

Scene: Monday morning. Class is in disorder. Children walk around, talking noisily.

TEACHER A: I Would like to begin.

TEACHER B: Stop the noise. Sit down. All of you. The weekend is over. This is not a discotheque.

A boy answers a teacher's questions without raising his hand or waiting his turn.

TEACHER A: I Would like to hear answers from many children.

TEACHER B: Who gave you permission to talk? You are not the only one in the class. Stop monopolizing the discussion. It's rude and unfair.

Do we want to be Teacher A or Teacher B? Which one our students deserve?