kang guru indonesia march bulletin 2012

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Through the Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership (KFCP)Indonesia and Australia are working together to support interna-tional efforts on REDD Plus (Reducing Emissions from Deforestationand Forest Degradation in Developing Countries). On 13 February,2012 in Kapuas, Central Kalimantan, Kang Guru observed thesigning of a declaration by 7 village heads whose villages haverecently joined the Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership(IAFCP).

Pak Dahlan, the Kepala Desa of Mantangai Hulu explained why this was important for hisvillage: ...karena kelihatannya kegiatan ini sangatmenyentuh masyarakat langsung dan melibatkan beberapalembaga yang ada di masyarakat di desa. Jadi kemungkinanini berjalan dengan baik dan sukses.

See the full story of the KGI trip to Banjarmasin, the KGIFOKUS teacher workshop in Bati Bati and Sues visit to MTs AlAmin on the KGI Travel Page on the KGI website -http://www.kangguru.org/kgretravel.htm

Indonesia Australia Forest Carbon Partnership

Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange in RiauAustralian and Indonesian participants of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program

(AIYEP) spent eight weeks, starting lateDecember 2011, living and working in

communities in Pekanbaru and Rokan Hulu inRiau province. During their time in Riau

province, the participants lived with hostfamilies in the village of Rambah Hilir Tengah

and worked with them to develop and implementcommunity development activities. They also presented

interactive cultural performances and English teaching andsporting activities with local school children. Do you know that

the Indonesian participants lived and worked in Australia fortwo months in late 2011 before returning to Indonesia with

the Aussie participants? This involved a two-month homestay and work placementprogram in Adelaide and on Kangaroo Island just south of Adelaide, in South Australia. AIYEP is

an annual program promoting people-to-people links between Australians and Indonesians and ismanaged by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Indonesian Ministry of Youth and Sport.

Check out the KGI website for a full report and video of AIYEP 2012.


In February this year, the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. Greg Moriarty, visitedan Australian-funded gymnastics program for Indonesian youth in Yogyakarta (see frontcover). The IndoGym program is conducted by education foundation Tunas CerdasGempita and provides gymnastic training to 100 girls and 25 children with special needsfrom local communities. The Australian Government has granted $19,500 as part of itsAustralian Sports Outreach Program to provide 20 weeks of free training for allparticipants of the program. The program is a Gymnastics for All initiative designedfor children below the age of 10 years and is adapted from an already successful programoperating in the state of Victoria, Australia.

The Ambassador said, This is an excellent example of a program that promotes socialinclusion, healthy behaviours and education and leadership opportunities for young menand women. It is important for Australia to support programs like this in Indonesia.Sport is an excellent vehicle for bringing together people of our two countries andbuilding stronger links at all levels of society.

IndoGym in Yogyakarta

Australia Indonesia Education PartnershipIt is important that all schools in Indonesia provide the highest quality programs to theirstudents and that the teachers who work within their classrooms are of the highestquality possible. Islamic schools are an important part of the Indonesian educationsystem. In Indonesia, there are thousands of schools and a significant percentage ofthese institutions are Madrasah. The new $500 million Australia Indonesia EducationPartnership is working with the Ministry of National Education and Culture and theMinistry of Religious Affairs (MoRA) to help improve access to schools, improve thequality of schools and support accreditation for Madrasah.

The Australia Indonesia Education Partnership provides technical assistance to theMinistry of Religious Affairs via the Directorate of Madrasah Education to supportMoRAs program of preparing Madrasah to apply for National Education Standards (NES).Up to 1500 Madrasah across 21 provinces and in 72 districts will be supported by amixture of capacity development activities and block grants assistance. MoRAs goal isto have a majority of Madrasah accredited to the NES by 2014-15.


International Womens Day

On March 8th, AusAID and Australia Awards joined together to present a full day programentitled Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures at the Taman Ismail Marzuki Theatercomplex in Jakarta. Activities included a forum where Australia Awards alumni mettogether to listen to keynote speakers talking about building the capacity of, andovercoming the challenges faced by women as they take up their roles in thedevelopment of Indonesia. In the afternoon participants were joined by 150 female highschool students to enjoy a Talk Show moderated by radio presenter Sarah Gadrie.Panellists included news anchor and Australian Development Scholarship recipient NajwaShihab, singer and writer Dee Lestari, Suzy Hutomo, the head of Body Shop inIndonesia, and Sara Moriarty, Climate Change Counsellor from AusAID Indonesia. Theinteractive Talk Show was designed to create an environment where female secondaryschool students were encouraged to dream big.

This International Womens Day, inspirational and successful Indonesian andAustralian women will be sharing their career successes, challenges and lessons learntwith young Indonesian women about to embark on their careers, said the Head ofAusAID in Indonesia, Jacqui De Lacy.

Other activities included a photography exhibition of Indonesian women involved inAusAID projects including Australia Awards and Kang Guru Indonesia.

What do all these well-known Indonesians have in common?Denny Indrayana Ikrar Nusa Bakti Chusnul Mariyah Kusmayanto Kadiman

Najwa Shihab Marty Natalegawa Boediono Hermanto Dardak

Thats right - they are all alumni of Australia. They all studied with a scholarship from theAustralian Government. Maybe you are eligible to do the same? Applications for the latest

round of Australian scholarships open on 12 March and close on 17 August, 2012.http://australiaawardsindo.or.id/


Teachers, have you ever wished you could improve your English classroom or the way you teach?

Be sure to listen to KGI radio, Series 7700 beginning in mid April for Sues Tips for Effective

Teaching in the Classroom. Listen to Sue Rodger presenting her special tips on preparing

yourself before the term begins, what to include when planning your lessons (see examples

below) and ways to motivate your students. There are more suggestions for you about using

textbooks, why it is so important to review and revise both grammar and vocabulary, and also

hints to improve your classroom management skills. Try them ALL and why not write to Kang

Guru with a tip that you would like to share with other teachers - [email protected]

Planning LessonsPlanning LessonsPlanning LessonsPlanning LessonsPlanning Lessons Planning is essential not just individual plans or short term plans but long

term plans too. There are many reasons for this, including achieving aims,

good timing, covering all skills, giving a variety of tasks and activities,

reviewing and giving preparation for exams.

Timing is an important aspect so you are not rushing either at the end of individual lessons to completeyour daily lesson plan but also in the long term so that all topics have been covered adequately by the

end of the term before the exam. Dont forget to leave enough time for review.

As you are planning, check that you arecovering all the skills equally and not having

too many lessons where perhaps writing

or reading is the main skill.

As you plan you can also check that a variety of activities are presented. If you always give studentsthe same type of task they will get bored and you are not giving them the opportunity to stretch

themselves.

Try to make the topics as interesting aspossible - include the students in some

aspects of planning the lessons sometimes.

Include games, songs and quizzes from time to time. Make thema reward or treat rather than in every lesson.

Include a mixture of activities where students work alone, work in pairs and work in groups. Studentsneed time to work alone sometimes to test themselves. Working in pairs helps

students with self-correction and take some responsibility for their own learning.

Group work gives students time to explore topics together and talk with confidence.


During April and May why not listen to

Kang Guru Indonesias weekly radio

programs to improve your

pronunciation. KGI has written some special

Quick Fix segments about pronouncing words

which contain tricky, silent letters. Letters such

as k and p and t which are there when we spell

the word but not when we pronounce them -

knowledge, psychology and fasten. This is a

great opportunity to hear how these words

should be pronounced. Hopefully there is a KGI

radio station near you. If there isnt a KGI radio

station near you then please tell us! Maybe you

can help us get one for you in your area.

www.kangguru.org/broadcastschedule.html

Quick Fix and .. shhhh pronunciation

KGI In The ClassroomHave you ever visited the KGI website?

What did you look at? Many of you

already visit and learn from the Quick

Fix, Idioms Inggris, Different Pond

Different Fish, and the Joeys Pages.

But what about KGIs In the Classroom

Page? There are many, many ideas for

teachers including MP3 podcasts and

PDF activity sheets complete with

teacher notes and answer keys. Have

you tried them yet? They are easy to

download yourself and use in the

classroom. Have a look today and try

them. KGI is here to help, ok?

Whats a podcast? It is a typ

e of MP3 file you can

download to your HP or com

puter. Did you know

there are bilingual podcasts

available for free on

the Kang Guru website? That

s right! Free, bilingual

podcasts to help you with yo

ur English. Listen at

home, on the bus or at scho

ol. Listen in Indonesian

and make notes about the t

ext in English then

listen to the English and

see if you had the right

ideas. Or listen to the Englis

h version and write

about it in Indonesian. Chec

k your notes by

listening to the Indonesian v

ersion. Teachers, why

not set some questions for y

our students as they

listen to one of the podcasts

? Go to the KGI website

www.kangguru.org and cli

ck on the podcast link.

There are lots of interesting

topics to choose from

and more are added every f

ew months. Free

bilingual podcasts from

Kang Guru Indonesia

what a great idea for all Eng

lish language students.

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What is ambition? Ambition is the desire for personalachievement. It provides the motivation and determinationnecessary to achieve a particular end or condition.

Ambitious people are characterised by their strong desire for attainment, power, orsuperiority. Do you have an ambition in life? Are you an ambitious person?Look at the Joeys. Can you guess what their ambitions are? What are your ambitionsfor the future? Send your responses to Ayu at [email protected] before April 27th.


Neologism is a combination of two ancient Greek words neo (new) and logos (word). Basically, aneologism is a new word that is being used by native speakers in conversation and text, but hasntappeared in a dictionary yet. In fact as soon as it appears in dictionary, it is no longer a neologism- just like bahasa gaul in Indonesia. An example: to tweet (to send messages using Twitter), NEET(acronym : not in employment, education or training), etc. But remember not all native speakersknow/use these new words. Now can you give examples of a neologism in our language?

The KGI team is happy to announce that the Kang Guru Indonesia Facebook FansPage membership has reached over 12,000 people. Can you believe that? And thenumber is increasing every day. KGI would like to say thank you for being one of ourfans on Facebook BUT dont stop now. Please keep promoting the KGI FacebookFans Page to your friends, ok? Thanks for your posts and your responses!

Have you ever watched Asing Star on TRAN

S TV? KGI was in Jakarta a few

weeks ago to meet one of the star participant

s, Jeremy Stringer from

Australia. Jeremy is currently working for Aus

AID in Jakarta. Here is little bit of

his interview.

KGI : Your Bahasa is very fluent. Where did yo

u learn your Bahasa?

Jeremy : In about 1992 I went on the Austral

ia Indonesia Youth Exchange

program (AIYEP).We were one month in Mage

tan and one month in Madiun

with a host family. Luar biasa pengalaman

itu nah. That was really the foundation for

me to become so interested. Aku mau bisa

lancar bahasa Indonesia supaya aku bisa ber

komunikasi,

berbicara dengan orang Indonesia. If you wan

t to read and listen

to Ayus special interview with Jeremy String

er go to the KGI

website and also be sure to listen to KGI radi

o during April and

May, 2012, on over 180 radio stations all over

Indonesia.


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