Adapting Materials & Enhancing Motivation in Manokwari

June 13-15, 2006, RELO Assistant Kun Herrini and Laurentia Sumarni, a lecturer from Sanata Dharma Unviersity Yogyakarta, teamed up giving a 3-day workshop on Adapting Materials & Enhancing Motivation in Manokwari, Papua.

With diversed attendees: 7 highschool teachers, 6 lecturers of UNIPA Language Center, and 13 non-English lecturers who were preparing themselves to teach their subjects in English, what the team had prepared to present did not match the situation.However, with plan B and C in hands composed on site, the workshop went well.

The 1 set of Books-in-a-Box brought from RELO Center was a great complement to the Adapting Materials session. Lecturers from different departments and faculties came up with brilliant creative ideas in utilizing the collection. For example, the ones from Faculty of Forestry came up with the relationship between environment with climate, culture, lifestyle etc from Children: Just Like Me; and the group from Animal Husbandry came up with a cerative use of the Picture Dictionaries.

The Second Day was more on Motivating the Unmotivated students. The VCD of Jeremy Harmer giving presentation in RELC Conference was the main source of discussion. Then, when teachers worked in groups to have a kind of teaching simulation, the 5As principles were really applied.

The third day was more on information about TOEIC and TEOFL and what teachers should consider when teaching them. The activities we had in the efforts of increasing competence were all challenging but applicable and fun.

(Pictures are coming up)