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| Group Photo in front of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Administration Office |
This is a review of my today's experience as a companion teacher for my students
Today we visited Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Jakarta, as one of the program for students in Tour & Travel Department.
The main objective of this "Airport Visit" is to introduce and to open the insight of the students about Airport Administration, Airport passenger flow, Airport facilities, particularly Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. And together with that, this trip is also as the way to map student's basic skill in guiding performances.
We started early in the morning about 06.45 am from school in Kali Malang, East Jakarta. We passed Kali Malang Street until Kebon Nanas area and took the Cawang-Priuk Toll Road, continue to Pelabuhan Toll Road and go straight in Airport Toll Road to get to Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Traffic was pretty bad as usual this morning along the Kali Malang Street (I will blog about it someday!). According to the rules set by my dear colleague Mam Sri Suryani, MPd, all the students must have their turn to do Guiding activities in this trip. They will called randomly to step forward and did about 10-15 minutes guiding practice on the bus in front of the audience.
And so, one by one they stepped forward and did the task, meanwhile me and my colleagues were observing and gave necessarily opinions and instructions about guiding technique and additional information needed.
We arrived about 8.15 am in the Head Office of Soekarno-Hatta Airport Administration under the management of PT. Angkasa Pura II. After about 20 minutes waiting, we met by the representatives of the management and started the Airport Visit to Terminal-3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
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| Egia - Tanti - Vani - Indah - Shahnaz - Nofriza - Bella - Amanda |
And so, the students were introduced to the procedure and the standard flow of the air flight departure passenger. Started from the security procedure in the main entrance of the terminal, check-in counter, waiting lounge, gate and also the reversed flow of the arrival passenger.
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| Departure Gate |
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| Check-in Counter Area |
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| Departure Lounge |
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| Arrival Gate |
The students also viewed some activities in front of the Apron, to see the process of the refueling of the airplane. Passing by the Baggage Claim area for flow of the arrival passenger.
All the Airport Visit activities ended at 10.15 am. Group then went back to the school by different route from the departure. On the way back from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, we took Airport Toll Road continue to Jakarta Inner Ring Road all the way to Cawang area, and descended in Jatinegara Fly-Over to make a u-turn back to school at Kali Malang. And same like departure routing, the students were also doing the guiding practice along the way.
When we arrived at school, all the 39 students finished the guiding practice. And here came the evaluation by me and Mam Sri about the today's trip.
Overall, from 39 students only 3 students were considered "okay" and that was very disappointing!
Let's talk about it now ..
In my opinion, many of my students don't prepared themselves well for this guiding activities. Basically, they always think Guiding as a scary and intimidated subject. And that's the reason why they are so depressed and not doing it well.
So, I think there are 3 things that they should really really pay attention to make the guiding such a fun activity to do :
1. MINDSET
In the 12 years of teaching experiences, the most problematic thing regarding the guiding task for students is the mindset. Most of them not consider Guiding as a fun and happy subject, it's more like a monster under the bed that makes them so afraid to look down. Every time they hear "guiding" word they automatically shrink they spirit in to an atomic size .. and that only make them worst in performing guiding task.
Passion .. is all you need to enjoy whatever activities you want to do, including guiding task. You must bring the passion up to the maximum level that you can do, without passion you will just get the uncomfortable feeling in everything that you do .. and that's not good
I started my carrier as a guide around 13 years a go with a big big passion. I enjoyed telling stories and histories to my guests. I liked to show them places and cultural activities, and I did it with happy feeling and passion. And until these days I don't stop to learn, to read, to find out, to improve my skill and knowledge because I have passion inside me .. !
Change your mindset is the basic and maybe the most important thing to do if you want to success in whatever you do. So you might start now or it will be too late ...
2. ENGLISH IMPROVEMENT
I remember back in my school days .. I introduced to English Lessons in Junior High School, and from there I keep on develop my English even until now ..
These days, English has already thought in Elementary School (for some even in Kindergarten School), so the possibility fro students now a days to have skill in English is actually bigger than my era.
English is a language that you have to study. And you can do it in many ways. One example, you can try to get the meaning of your favorite song lyrics so that will make you add your English Vocabulary more often. Don't be a shame to speak English among your family and friends, and don't be scare if you mess up with the grammar .. the more often you speak English, the more comfortable for you to use it as a guiding language. Don't stop learning, don't stop trying ..
3. INFORMATION GATHERING
Now a days, the world is become smaller and smaller, thanks to the internet era. Internet brings a lot of changes and shape the world as a one planet instead of divided in to peaces. And it means that you can get any information you want, in any place and in any time. The information can appear in seconds just directly to your palm. Handphone, Android, Blackberry, Tablet and many other gadget make your search for information easier than ever. So, why don't you get the advantages from this situation to help you improve your guiding skill??
Have you ask yourself, how many hours you spent in a day to use the internet? How many times you change your status in Facebook, or twit in the Twittter, posting photos in the Instagram, record your voice in the Soundcloud? How many? 3, 4 hours a day? maybe more?
So, can you imagine? If from those 3 or 4 hours you can use at least 1 hour to browsing data and information about guiding material, then it will be extraordinary for you to have update and crack-up your knowledge about guiding material ...!!
It start from you and from you only ..
Alika .. Out !
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