A CRITICAL REVIEW

Submitted to Fulfill an Assignment of Critical Thinking Lesson Lectured by Ahmad Sofwan, Ph.D

By: YUSUF HIDAYAT NIM: 2003512120

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY STATE OF SEMARANG 2012

INTRODUCTION The text entitled For Better Schools Focus on Teachers, has the hypothesis that education will determine the nations future. The good education needs better teachers. The text was aimed at reporting better schools for better education, and better education needs better teachers. To gain better teachers, education minister, Mohammad Nuh allocates 20 percent of the governments budget to education. Through this program, all teachers across the country sit for competency test to determine whether they are fit enough to continue their job or not. In this case, the education ministers policy has appropriated to be implemented in Indonesia. If Indonesia needs a better education, Indonesia needs better teachers.

SUMMARY Regarding to the text, the writer would like to discuss that education will determine the nations future. Although this statement arises much debate, it makes the government endorsed to allocate 20 percent of its budget to education. With this budget, the government represented by education minister conducted test for teachers across Indonesia to measure their competency to determine whether they are fit enough to continue their job or not. Referring to the text being discussed, the writer wrote the text with deductive organization method. It means that the writer wants to explain from the general idea, then followed by the specific ideas to support the general idea as the main idea of the text.

CRITIQUE With regard to the text being discussed entitled For Better Schools Focus on Teachers, it normally has positive and negative point of view. As the reader, I would like to give some criticisms that the text still consists of some weakness points, first of all the text does not mention the other aspect that support better schools besides better teachers. Better teachers are not only a single aspect that is able to make better education in Indonesia. Besides better teachers, the governments control to its policy

is also important thing to support teachers to be the competence ones. In addition, curriculum, good parents and conducive environment are also imperative aspects to make education success in Indonesia. On the contrary, the text also has positive point to discuss that the government has allocated 20 percent of its budget to fund education, particularly giving certification fund to teachers who has competency. This fund also aimed to motivate teachers to be more active, innovative, and discipline in implementing their duty.

CONCLUSION In conclusion, to have better schools, the government needs better teachers. While to have better teachers the government needs a fit and proper test to measure teachers competency whether they are able to continue their job or not, besides the extra salary provided by the government. In this case, the reader recommends that the writer should also explain the weakness of governments control in monitoring teachers work in their field after they get certification fund.

REFERENCES Article Workshop 3, Reader Response, entitled: For Better Schools Focus on Teachers.