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AMINEF American Indonesia Exchange Foundation Intiland Tower, 11th Floor Jalan Jend. Sudirman Kav. 32 Jakarta 10220 Tel : (021) 579 39 085 / 086 Fax : (021) 579 39 089 If you would like to have more information Visit us at about Fulbright ETA Program, please call us at (021) 579 39 085 or email us at [email protected] Best of Fulbright ETA Monthly highlight 2017 Special Edition Best Articles Special Edition, May 2017 Foreword Welcome to the Best of ETA Monthly Highlights. The ETA Program, one of US State Department- We hope that you will enjoy reading the funded Fulbright programs carried out in many compilation of the Fulbright English Teaching countries throughout the world, places recent Assistants’ (ETA) activities at their sites across the college graduates and young professionals archipelago from September 2016 through May as English teaching assistants in primary and 2017. secondary schools or universities overseas. The program helps improve foreign students’ English- This special edition contains stories which are language abilities and knowledge of the United divided into in-classroom activities, afterschool States while increasing the US student’s own activities, WORDS National Competition, and language skills and knowledge of the many host promoting cultural exchange. ETAs came up with countries around the world. creative activities to deepen students’ English skills. After school ended, they got involved in In Indonesia, the Fulbright ETAs are placed in various student and teacher clubs at school and high schools (both SMA and madrasah) where in their local neighborhood. In April, ETAs flew to they assist local English teachers. The program Jakarta with a student representative to compete has now been going for 12 years and has affected in National WORDS Competition where everybody many thousands of Indonesian students and went back home with unforgettable memories and their communities across the archipelago over new friendship. To promote the spirit of cultural that period. AMINEF, in charge of the Fulbright exchange, ETAs also participated in Indonesian’s program in Indonesia since 1992, works closely Hari Guru, Hari Kartini, and other local celebrations with the Indonesian ministries of Education and while introducing American celebrations among Culture and Religious Affairs to administer the ETA others Valentine’s Day and Halloween. Some program in Indonesia. ETAs were also excited to explore Indonesian rich cultures by visiting batik workshop, learning The Highlights recount in an informal way the to cook their favorite Indonesian dish, dancing stories and experiences of the ETAs, their co- traditional dance, and many more. teachers and students, and the people in the communities where they are placed. We hope they ETAs returned to the US in mid-May after joining are informative and capture the special value of End-of-Year Conference held at AMINEF Office. this program. We welcome your feedback. It is indeed saddening to say goodbye, but at the same time AMINEF are ready to welcome the new batch of ETAs who will arrive in Indonesia in July 2017. We’d love to get your feedback. learn from Americans and vice versa? We’ll post your feedback in the next newsletter and you may For ETAs: please share with us your favorite win a special thank-you gift from us. Email us at: stories: which teaching method is most fun or [email protected] you’d like to apply, or which activity you’d like to hear more of, or what is happening in your Many thanks to all of the ETAs for their wonderful community? stories and photos. Be sure to get next month’s newsletter! For Indonesian teachers, students and the general public: Send us your reactions: which stories struck you as interesting, which experiences are AMINEF American Program compatible with your own, how can Indonesians and Communications Teams 1 Special Edition, May 2017 Greetings from Jakarta: An Introduction Twenty nine Fulbright English Teaching Assistants After arriving in Indonesia, ETAs gathered again (ETAs) have recently begun their assignments in Bandung September 1-18 to participate in an assisting English teachers across Indonesia. This orientation held by the American Indonesian year, ETAs will be assigned to 16 different cities Exchange Foundation (AMINEF). During the throughout the archipelago: Pangkal Pinang, Bandar orientation, AMINEF equipped the ETAs with Lampung, Semarang, Kudus, Salatiga, Magelang, various skills, such as intensive Indonesian language Malang, Sidoarjo, Surabaya, Kendari, Makassar, training, historical and cultural understanding, as Gorontalo, Manado, Kupang and Labuan Bajo. They well as teaching techniques, so that upon arriving at will live, assist English teachers, and learn at their their sites they are better prepared for their role as sites for nine months. an ETA; during the later portion of orientation ETAs were joined by their co-teachers for training and ETAs first gathered for a Pre-Departure Orientation practicum teaching, to better prepare for their nine (PDO) in Washington D.C. June 9-13, alongside months together. Guest speakers at the orientation Fulbright Student Researchers and Scholars going included several Indonesian experts such as Ibu Itje to Indonesia and several other Southeast Asian and Chodidjah and Ibu Irid Agoes, a selection of former East Asian countries. All grantees participated in English Language Fellows, and the current Charge informational sessions regarding living and working de Affairs, Brian McFeeters. (First published on in their host countries, and ETAs remained in D.C. September 2016 Edition) for an additional two days to engage in sessions specifically catered to their role in the classroom. Special Edition, May 2017 2 In-Classroom Activities One of the first topics MAN 1 Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi of the year in the 10th grade is to learn how to give and receive compliments. ETA Mackenzie Findlay decided to teach about compliments at MAN 1 Kendari by letting the students compliment one another. After learning related phrases and vocabulary, Mackenzie gave each student one sticky note. The students wrote their name at the top and then passed the sticky note to the person beside them. This person wrote a compliment to the person whose name was at the top and passed it on. Once every sticky note was full of compliments, the students pasted them to a poster board and hung it in the classrooms. The students were so proud to have something lasting to keep in their classroom students had giving compliments. A great first and Mackenzie was thrilled by all the practice the lesson! (First published on September 2016 Edition) The week of January 23, SMAN 2 Model Makassar, ETA Ayat Abourashed did South Sulawesi some spring cleaning and found sheet protectors in one of her binders. She decided to make these sheet protectors into “whiteboards” and create a lesson plan using her new tool. The students were learning about present perfect tense. Ayat put the students in pairs and each pair received a “whiteboard” and a marker. Ayat would write a sentence on the board with a blank where the verbs would go. The students had to come up with verbs in the present perfect tense and write them on their boards. The whole lesson was a success. The students in Grade 10 IKA loved the homemade boards so much they started dabbing in class! (First published on January 2017 Edition) 3 Special Edition, May 2017 In-Classroom Activities This semester, 10th and teacher), to create engaging English lessons SMK Stella Maris Labuan Bajo, 11th grade NKPI (Nautical and English Club activities related to maritime East Nusa Tenggara Program) students at SMK ecosystems and sustainability using English. Here, Stella Maris in Labuan students participate in an activity designed by Bajo are focusing on the marine ecosystems in Pak Stefan in which they are learning fish anatomy Komodo National Park. ETA Sam Geary is working terms in English, and practice actively identifying together with fellow teachers, Pak Stefan (Maritime and locating the body parts. (First published on English teacher) and Pak Iren (NKPI Program January 2017 edition) Special Edition, May 2017 4 In-Classroom Activities ETA Kelly Fitzgerald has greatly enjoyed teaching a storybook, comic book, play, or film. Students at two different high schools in Indonesia over the chose a project based on their talents and interests course of two years. From all of the lessons she and Kelly was amazed at the results. No matter what has taught during this project students chose to do, Kelly was impressed SMA Wachid Hasyim 2 time, one of her all-time by the outcome. Some of the highlights from this Taman Sidoarjo favorites was a final project were some truly spectacular drawings, Sidoarjo, East Java project she assigned some very creative stories, some cinema-quality to her students during films, and some well-rehearsed plays which even the month of April. The students were put into included a wayang kulit [traditional shadow puppet] groups of 4-6 and instructed to write a short story performance in English. Kelly is so proud of all of her in English as part of the Narrative Text unit. Then students’ hard work and is sad to be saying goodbye the students were given a choice in how they would to them next month. (First published on April 2017 present the story to the class. Students could make edition) 5 Special Edition, May 2017 In-Classroom Activities On April 3rd, ETA Matt SMKN 2 Bandar Poissant tried an activity Lampung, Lampung that he learned at the MidYear Fulbright ETA Conference, which he called speed reading. At MidYear it was demonstrated to the ETAs by Ibu Harumi from the University of Indonesia who had the ETAs pair up with a co-teacher and work together to answer a set of questions about a reading posted on the wall.