Summary of Activities
•Sat in Mrs. Yohana, my partner’s class
Intro to Teaching Methodology: Elements for a lesson plan
Etiquette & Personal Development
speaking & listening etiquette
telephone etiquette
giving & handling criticism
General English: Dressing and Grooming
•Taught in class
Intro to Teaching Methodology: how to write a lesson plan
Etiquette & Personal Development: Chinese Etiquette( history, addressing, greeting, giving gift, dinner etiquette, seating, Chinese cuisine )
•Workshop for Lectures
Scientific Paper Writing and Publication
Textbook Compilation and Reflection
•Joined in the workshop on graduation paper writing held by Teaching team( Nabilla, Dewi);
•Communicate with Teachers and students
Manager of department journal :Ghifari
The head of PU: Mr. Hotma
OIA: Mrs. Andri
Faculty: Siwi, Tika, Alfelia
Students from
Archive ,English, Tourism, IT and Mandarin Project
•Attended Table Manner courses offered by Aston Hotel;
•Sat in the international forum held by Civil Engineering Faculty: “ The Opportunity for developing Sustainable Infrastructure for a Better Indonesia”
•Join research
Etiquette Lesson in Indonesia and China
A Comparison Study on Vocational College English Education system in China and Indonesia
•Made good use of the library and collect relevant data and materials for the join research
•Exposed to a variety of students activities
Book fair
English entrepreneurship Expo 2017
•Paid a visit to a Tri-lingual education group: 日惹崇德三语国民学校
•Cultural Explore
1. cultural attractions: Candi Mendut; Borobudur; Karton, water castle; Silver Craftsman’ store( kota Gede); Chocolate Monggo store
2. Weekend excursion to Beaches ;( Andri, Tyas; Shinta
3. Puppet shadows play:
4. Indonesia food culture
5. Shopping Mall:Jogja city Mall; Ambarukmo Plaza; Malioboro Mall, Galeria Mall,Mirota batik
•Met with old and new friends: Cisya, Wati, Inung,
Reflection
•The project is a real success, from which both teachers and students raised their awareness of cultural similarities and differences.
•The project is beneficial from inspiring us teachers and students to explore cultural diversity. Consequently, the project will be beneficial for us to become globally aware.
•The project promoted the participants to learn from each other. For me, your achievement in community service(from dissertation to book), students’ hands-on activities, teachers’ devotion and students ‘active involvement in class are all quite impressive.
•It’s advisable for us to do critical reflection is upon the project(activities and its outcomes ),which is necessary the for the perfectness of the following project.
Acknowledgments
All the reported activities could not have happened without the help and support of your distinguished and nice people. My heartfelt thank especially goes to :
•the UGM-CDTC program and those people who have been devoting and supporting this Faculty Exchange; especially the Dean, Mr. Wikan, and the Head, Dr. Endang, and Vice dean, Mrs Dr. Sylvi; The head of the civil engineering, Mr. Suwardo
•People in OIA, Andri, Tyas, Dhemas, who arranged every thing well and sacrificed their weekend to go to the excursion with us;
•the invitation from the Civil Engineering Faculty, which was quite helpful for me to learn more about the college and the city of Yogyakarta.
• the faculty members, who is always helpful and nice, and who enthusiastically offered me help whenever I came across troubles in Wi-Fi access or other difficulties;
•the library assistants , who are friendly to me and who are patient enough to wait until my late leave;
•the volunteer students, who made my life here more convenient and comfortable
•Mrs. Yohana for her unconditional support in every aspects of this faculty exchange project; Rizky, who, with Mrs. Yohana, accompanied us here and there, and worked as a qualified tour guide for both Tim and me;
•Dr,Endeng, who is so careful and patient and who spent a lot of time with me having dinner, chatting, going to SPA, visiting to Borobudur, trying to establish relation with the famous private school in spite of her tight ;
•the remaining colleagues with whom I interacted and discussed a lot;
• Finally, my colleague, Mr. Tangmeng, who showed much care for me; and all our student, who are good team players and self-disciplined.
Conclusion
•The reported Faculty Exchange had several important results that largely potentiate the further collaborations with faculty at UGM-SV & CDTC.
On one hand, the joint teaching and research is novel and very challenging . Hopefully, the project will be more fruitful with their publications and scientific achievements;
On another hand, more collaborations emerged to other areas, such as students internship, which is also highly interesting and have potential to generate further cooperation in the coming future.