ABSTRACT

INCREASING THE STUDENT WRITING SKILL BY USING NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMA BANYUWANGI

Writing is an interactive process for student to increase English and most important aspect to learning English. They improve interpersonal relationship and learn how to share about knowledge, feelings and opinion about something. Writing skill is one of the skills that is very difficult and makes the student bored because writing must has more experience and more knowledge. This study purpose to find out the problem the Students in making simple past tense in narrative text. The teacher has to be creative in teaching and learning writing. So it makes interested to study more. And then the teacher give motivation to the students to be more relax in learning English especially in writing skill and English is easy to learn, do not be afraid to make mistake, because it is a process to reach a success

To meet this need , The purpose of this classroom action research was to improve tenth year students’ writing achievement  at SMA BANYUWANGI in the 2014/2015 academic year. By using narrative tex, The researcher took the tenth year students as the subject of classroom action research. this classroom action research had  two cycles which consisted of four main stages in each cycles. They are preparation, implementation, observation and reflection of the action.. In this research, the test was a written test in which the teacher asked the students to write a narrative text. From the result of the study, it could be stated that used of narrative text with small group work could improve the tenth grade studets writing achievement test at SMABANYUWANGI in the 2014/2015 year.

Essay: What It Takes To Be A Good Teacher?

What it takes to be a good teacher?

At this time, especially in Indonesia, become a teacher is one of good occupation. If ten years ago a teacher  is identict with low sallary, but now, teacher do not have to be worry about their life, because they have enough money from become a teacher. Thats why the number of young people who have a dream to become a teacher are increase lately. But, in fact, good sallary of a teacher still not deal with their good quality. There are still many teachers who teach with old fashion style. So, what it takes to be a good teacher?

In order to become a good teacher, a person must have a strong passion at first. It is very essential part if people want to be a teacher. Passion is when people loves what they do. Once they have a strong passion in teaching, another positive things which will help them to be success as a teacher will follow after. A strong passion also could make people to survive in any condition, no matter how hard the situation will be.

The other factor is dedication. There are so many teacher, but not all of them have enough dedication in ther job. A teacher is not just come to the class, explain the material, giving score to the students, then leave the room. Absolutely not. No matter how smart a teacher, thats will be useless if they cannot make sure that  their students be able to understand what they said. This is the point that commonly teachers forget about. Teachers have responsibility to make each students getting new knowledge every time they come to the class. Thats why dedication is nedeed. When teachers have dedication, they will give their time, their power, and their mind to make their students success in learning.

The last thing that people need to be a good teacher is Creativation. Become a teacher is not all about what will they give to the students, but what students need from them. Each students has different ability, capacity, and characteristic. It is not easy to make aech student feel statisfy in class. It is depend on how creative the teachers to creat a fun class for their students.

Finally, as precious as become a teacher, it brings big responsibility. Then, three contributing factors to a successful career as a good teacher are passion, dedication, and creativation.