Scientists have tirelessly researching a variety of important factors that contribute to the success of life. They are interested in looking for a deciding factor that significantly can be used to predict the success of life.
From research it's virtue of important factors that contributed to success of a person. Determinants of success were finally translated by experts of education into the curriculum and instructional program.
In short, with the discovery that determinants of success, education world also vying and contemplate to formulate the philosophy, paradigm, strategy, and methodology of the study. In turn, the formula was used to mengonstruksi the curriculum which is able to give science and knowledge to prepare learners for climbing success.
A significant factor that has received widespread attention to predict a person's success, such as intelligence quotient (IQ, intelligence of the brain) and emotional quotient (EQ, emotional intelligence). The latter's intelligence, by its discoverer, Daniel Goleman (1995), named for emotional intelligence, not emotional quotient.
The birth of a new direction of education making EQ extensively. Because, in most research proven IQ will no longer be the only predictor of successful learners in the future.
Before appearing EQ, IQ was the one which deified the educational world to ease the job of learning in giving stock or virus successful learners or students even though. By implication, curriculum development is almost worldwide in the era through IQ always oriented in how efforts Pack the learning programs that can give the brain the most intelligence to learners.
After the EQ was discovered by Goleman, curriculum immediately and absolutely have to pay attention to the factors of non-cognitive, such as social intelligence, spiritual intelligence, emotional control, and understand other people's emotions. In fact, Goleman claimed IQ only contribute 20 percent of learners success after their life in the community. Turned out to be 80 per cent determined by other factors thus beyond IQ, where EQ enter in it significantly.
Therefore, if a nation wishes to create a curriculum that can bring learners so successful people, the curriculum must also provide a menu that covers aspects of learning other than intelligence, such as attitude, behavior, personality, keberagamaan, manners, and the intelligence of the muscles (muscle memory).
In fact, Praxis education in Japan include memory and intelligence aspects of muscle in its curriculum since the class I and II ELEMENTARY SCHOOL through the activity of muscles (skills) in the form of origami activities intensively. Origami is capable of imparting to students the nature of creative, innovative and attitudes, as well as build muscle memory/intelligence of students.
"Adversity quotient"
Lengkapkah Predictor of success already can be packaged in the curriculum after the discovery of IQ, EQ — also the intelligent spiritual (SQ, spiritual intelligence), and the intelligence of muscle? It turns out yet! Science world keep doing research to make a success of the Predictor has a more robust predictive power, the smaller the gaffe until it reaches 99 percent confidence level. Or alpha coefficient 0.01 level if we borrow the terminology of statistical significance test inferensial. New Predictor is the adversity quotient (AQ).
Two years after Daniel Goleman came the AQ EQ discovers that was discovered by Paul Stoltz (1997). Application in the process of education does AQ have the application of EQ and SQ. currently, AQ much applied in large companies for the purposes of recruitment and training of employees.
Education should also make use of the findings of Paul Stoltz. Why is this so? Because AQ is in fact a person's capacity to confront various forms of pressure and discomfort of living in certain situations.
Person who has high AQ will hardiness, in the sense of physical, mental, and clarity of thought. More importantly, he could soon return to a normal state after dealing with a wide range of pressure and challenge. Conversely, people who would always blame low AQ environmental when he failed so he could not take the decision to head for success. AQ fields supported three main pillars: psychoneuroimmunology, neuropsychology, and cognitive psychology.
People are living there is nothing free of pressure and challenge. The doctor had the pressure while on the operating table, journalists have the pressure and challenges when it must face the news deadline, the Minister and the President are always facing pressure from the expectations of society. The students were always facing pressures and challenges when learning new material should be that much more difficult, come and go home on time, and handed the task of individual as well as groups. If all the pressure was successfully passed, sukseslah them. If it fails, will reduplah the mood and thoughts at the time.
Life is a challenge
Therefore, the capacity to be able to face different pressures to be taught and trained since they were in school. Students need to experience for yourself the various procedures and processes of science and knowledge. Because of that, observing the activity, asking questions, others are allegorical;, bereksperimentasi, as well as the experience of building the networks need to be accommodated in a curriculum.
That way, students will be able to respond to a wide range of possibilities and the pressure of his life later after living in the community. A positive response to the pressures faced by the students will give way to later life success.
Learn not only which is pleasant enough, but must also be challenging for our students. Why is it so? Because life is identical to the challenge.
Curriculum and the learning process needs to give a pretty place so that students can perform observation, analysis, hypothesis, synthesis, and to find solutions to the challenges faced in their learning process. So, in time, to borrow the concept of Jerome Brunne, the students will perform what he calls the transfer of learning and principles in real life.
So, learn not simply by the sheer fun approach. Moreover, it must be challenging so that students can practice to build his AQ. Let's hope so.
Suyanto, Professor State University Of Yogyakarta
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