an innovative approach

schooling studying, she studied Physics and Mathematics in the evening during school
day. She did not quite like studying biology. “It needed too much memory”, she said.
Finally, she suggested that receiving an opportunity for sharing ideas would be better
way of the study, even though she had been unfamiliar with this way. Her biology
learning achievement score was 3.5 and her GPA was 3.42.
S04 was sixteen years old girl. Her father was an engineer, and her
mother was a housewife. S12 liked to share ideas with others, and would like to be a
dentist. However, she thought that she had no enough ability to be the dentist.
Outside formal schooling studying, she studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and
English language during the week and weekend. Her mother always picked her up
from a private tutorial institute to another one during weekend. Her biology learning
achievement score was 3.5 and her GPA was 3.36.
3. Mrs. Engka’s Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
According to the classroom observations and the discussion with Mrs. Engka
during informal interviews throughout the study, Mrs. Engka believed that teaching
by lecturing could not longer develop the students’ learning about biology. The
interaction between students and their friends, and teachers’ suggestions would
encourage the students to better learning.
Mrs. Engka was enthusiastic about the importance of students’ interactions in
teaching activities and launching group discussion and classroom discussion. She
would like the students to form their group independently and happily to participate in
the activities and discussion. She noted that the students might not immediately
change the way of learning from passive learning to active learning. The students in
her classroom was still familiar with intently listening, copying what she said and
wrote on the board, and completing activities from the worksheet.
Also, Mrs. Engka was critical of the approach used at the Border school where
her great students were usually required to participate in a large number of school
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