INTRODUCING OUR NEW TEACHERS

I am often asked: “What do we look for in a SIS-PIK teacher?” One important quality is what Howard Gardner, the acclaimed Harvard psychologist and educator, calls the ‘disciplined mind’. We search for teachers who know and love their academic discipline, whatever that is, and who are themselves disciplined in continuing to learn, talk, and teach about it. Such teachers frequently think that their subject, their passion, is the most important, the fountain from which all other academic waters flow. Passion like this is often exaggerated, but most times transparent, and always compelling. 

Teachers like this care, and care deeply, about their craft and its value. They are restless and reflective about improving what they do. Their search to transform themselves continually is a mirror of their desire to model the power of education to transform, not merely to transmit. These teachers understand that their sense of themselves, and their identities as instructors, matter greatly. Teaching for them is a vocation. The Latin derivation of that word is ‘calling’. Teachers who see their work as a vocation are teachers who have been called to teach, not those who see what they do as just another job. 

Put all this together in any one person, and the idealism inherent in our hiring becomes apparent. Yet these are the teachers that we look for, each year, to grace our school.

Each week, we will introduce on of our new teachers.  This week, please meet Mr Yoga.

Mr Yoga will be the homeroom teacher for Sec 1C and maths teacher for Sec 1C, Sec 3 and JC1. He was born and raised in Bogor and his parents are from Bali. He graduated from Sampoerna University, majoring in Mathematics Education since 2015. He is interested in trying new things related to technology, traveling, photography and teaching Mathematics.