Happy Teachers Day

Happy Teachers Day

We all celebrated teachers’ day all over the world on a certain date. In many countries, Teachers’ day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers, and may include celebration to honor them for their contributions in a particular field area, or the community in general.  While us in Indonesia specifically in Jakarta we celebrated on October 5^th 2015 in Bina Tunas Bangsa School.

A teacher plays great role in student’s lives. Teachers are real shapers of future of the students which can never be ignored. Teachers make their own lesson plan to make education more effective and interesting as well as facilitate students learning. The role of teachers is very significant, therefore on this teacher’s day celebration we pay our utmost respect and gratitude to them as a day of special teacher- student bonding.



Singing and band performances

                                  

On this day our grade 11 students arrange and perform various types of programs as a token of love and respect towards our teachers. I am the one who is in charge of this teachers’ day. I planned everything and divided the tasks to all of my friends who will do what and what’s their role. I also got some helped with the arrangement of the performances from our music teacher, Mr. Jimmy. The performances include singing and having a band. Those who participate in the performances are not only from my class but also from lower classes.

Outstanding teachers are also given prizes such as chocolate and certificate for their contribution in the development of schools and bringing good results from students. We involve all the students to give chocolate to their teachers. Our class involve in giving cookies to the teachers. Students also give personal gifts to their favorite teachers to express their affection and gratitude. Teachers also feel special at their hard work and honesty is recognized on this day.

The main objectives that we would like to achieve are:

(1)   To let the students appreciate the important role of teachers on the journey of their learning

(2)   To let the teachers feel their significant in the life of the students

Learning outcomes: 

• Increased your awareness of your own strengths and areas for growth 
• Undertaken new challenges 
• Planned and initiated activities 
• Worked collaboratively with others 
• Shown perseverance and commitment in your activities 
• Developed new skills





Decorating the assembly hall

We planned this activity for 3 weeks before the event of teachers’ day. We started to decorate the assembly hall 3 days before the day and we started informing the class about the upcoming event of teachers day a week before. We are raising the fund by asking the middle and high school students to donate 5 thousand rupiah each for the sake of buying chocolate and the ingredients to make cookies. We don’t force the students to donate because we told them this money is served as our gratitude towards the teacher.

We got little time to do everything done in 2 weeks time because we cannot do the program and activities in school since there are lots of teachers who are monitoring us what we are doing. We prepared all of the things needed by consuming our time at home.

Cookies making

Preparing the teachers day event is really complicated because we need to involve all the students to participate in these activities. Also making the event we do it secretly to surprise the teacher. We make sure no teachers will know about the program as well as the sequence that we are doing for them. The risks that we must take are that accept those who cannot be trusted not to tell to any teachers who they are close with. We also need to consider the risks if the students didn’t distribute the chocolate evenly whereas some of the teachers wouldn’t get the cookies as well as the chocolates, by that we need to apologize for that.

During the day of teachers’ day, we work together hand in hand and divided each tasks. We divided our tasks with our friends in giving the certificate, giving chocolates, giving cookies, being the emcee and the sound system controller. We have someone who is assigned to inform and give directions when to give the teachers the chocolate.

The activity wasn’t that successful because it didn’t go according to our plan. In the middle of the program after distributing the certificate to the teachers, we are being stopped by the principal and the vice principal because we are told that we are being unfair in giving the certificate because we don’t give to all of the teachers while some of them were being called up on stage twice to receive the certificate. Giving this certificate to some of the teachers is based on the voting’s from middle school to high school students. We don’t want to be bias and being unfair. Those teachers who didn’t receive any certificate they felt bad, as if they are unloved and ignored. However, I tried to talk to the vice principal, Ms Paul, to allow us to finish the program because the program isn’t finished yet and chocolates haven’t been distributed to all the teachers where all students will be participating in these activities. I want to make sure that every teacher must receive chocolates. Since the program is stopped all the sequence is not in order. Students just give the chocolates to whomever and whenever they like without the instruction given to them. Seeing the program all messed up, we decided to end the program because we felt sad, ashamed and disappointed. The program didn’t go as smooth as what we expected. After the distribution of the chocolate we ended the program even though there is still performance that is waiting for. To avoid this incidence, teachers should have leaved the program to the students who they have assigned and whom they trust. Let them run the program with the assist of the teachers. Trust is an important role to run activities like this. We have to trust one another in order to run the program as smooth as possible.

This Teachers’ day event was very disappointing to the eyes of many students and some of the teachers, but we are thankful that they appreciated what we have done and they can understand the hard work that we had made and what we are trying to imply for them. This program is a meaningful activity for me where I can feel the joy of the teachers and yet it makes me happy as well. It is an interesting thing to do where we can work together as a friend and make enjoy the fun together. This activity has taught me a lot of things such as working collaboratively with my friends though we are exhausted but at the same time we enjoyed a lot. Don’t bring stress while we are working just enjoy and have fun. Bring happiness and do it heartily. I hope that we can do this activity again in the future where we can share the happiness together.