SELF DEVELOPMENT

SELF DEVELOPMENT

Nowadays, self development is an important thing, because it can improve our way of thinking and help us to get a better life. It is also indicating person who applies the self development in her or his self has ability to face on real life to get a job. Especially, as a teacher self development makes their skill more useful and indicates a professional teacher. Usually, the teacher that apply of self development more competence, creative than the others who not apply the self development.

There is an interview yield about self development, on Friday, 21^st November 2008 at 10.40 am, with Miss Lia Nurhasnah Octavia, a lecturer of Faculty of letters, University of Ahmad Dahlan, she had been taught about 6 years in UAD sine 2002.

According to Miss Lia Nurhasnah Octavia, the definition of sel development is an effort where someone can get a better life than before or can mean that a human effort to get or act better. In instruction self development has an important role. As a teacher self development is important to begin learn about something new that we do not have and know, do not you think that as a teacher we stop to learn, moreover, it is time to begin to more learn about everything because we face on real life in a job world. It is indicate that we are professional teacher. Whereas, as a student especially who is prospective teacher self development makes us more ready to face a real life to compete to get a job, enter into society, we can not just rely on the material that given by the teacher but we must develop our knowledge by ourselves, and we have something that called life skill that actually it get from self development. She said that somebody who develops her or his self means that he or she is better than previous.

Self development influence a general purpose in teaching, when a teacher has perspective and mission to make the student cleverer than last, the teacher will try to make something different and new to teach, try to be creative for apply a various of teaching method. So, it is not monotonous. Teaching method must appropriate with who are the learner and do not apply just one method but apply various method. And it makes the student interested with everything that we teach.

The obstacles of self development are financial. Sometime we sacrifice not only time, attention but also money. For example, we need and want to learn a book but book is nothing in our country so we must look for it to another country and of course it need mush money. But, it is different now, because now we can look for everything around of the world easily. Actually, the particularly obstacle is on ourselves. We want or won’t to develop ourselves, we can not develop if in inside of our heart is not won’t to try develop. So, we must motivate ourselves. There are many way to develop ourselves, as active in seminar, join with organization, study club, etc. Believe that it is increasing our quality, compare with the person who don not develop her or his self se or he has nothing.

For example that Miss Lia has done, she join the faculty of letter lecturer forum, look for information and news, share experience with another lecturer, etc. she always keep spirit, never be pessimistic, she has ambition to get scholarship to study in board, she also evaluate her mistake that has made and try to improve it.

She give suggest to all of prospective teacher, that be a number one and professional teacher. So, we will try to do the best.

As a person who learn and want to get success in the future should be apply self development to ourselves. Develop ourselves if we one to be a useful. It is difficult to apply self development if we want to grow ourselves, so make a plan to know what we want.