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find out Sheila’s aggressive behavior which is done by her using her emotional feeling.
4. Teaching Style
This research attempts to study how teaching style influences someone’s personality development. Therefore, the theory of teaching style is discussed.
According to Schoville 2004 style is “the way or manner method in which something is said or done.” Teaching style can be meant as “a set of teaching
tactics” Galton et al, 1980 which is needed in some circumstances in facing the different kinds of characteristics of the students.
Excellent teachers’ theory from Copple and Bredekamp 2009 is used to categorize the influence of Torey’s teaching styles in Sheila’s personality
development. Copple and Bredekamp 2009 aim to integrate the school with society and the processes of learning with the actual problems of life. There are
ten characteristics of excellent teachers teaching style from Copple and Bredekamp.
First, the teachers acknowledge what children do or say. They let the children know that they have noticed by giving children positive attention,
sometimes through comments, sometimes just through sitting nearby and observing. Second, teachers encourage persistence and effort rather than just
praise and evaluate what the child has done. Third, teachers give a specific feedback rather than general comments. It should be done in order to make
positive relationship with each child. Fourth, teachers model attitudes, ways of
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approaching problems, and behavior toward others, showing children rather than just telling them. Fifth, teachers demonstrate when they show the correct way to
do something. This procedure usually needs to be done in a certain way. Sixth, teachers create or add challenge so that a task goes a bit beyond what the children
can already do. In other cases, teachers reduce challenge to meet children where they are. Seventh, teachers ask questions that provoke children’s critical thinking.
Eighth, teachers give assistance such as a cue or hint to help children work on the edge of their current competence. Ninth, teachers provide information, directly
giving children facts, verbal labels, and other information. Last, the teachers give directions for children’s action and behavior. It will make the children do
something in appropriate ways. Excellent teachers can be an effective guide for the teachers to help the
students how to make the better decisions in the next time. They can make positive relationship in order to recognize children’s conflict and misbehavior as
learning opportunities.
5. Personality Development
This study focuses on the development of the main character’s personality after joining Torey’s class. Therefore the personality development theory is used
to analyze the character. It is important to understand the character’s personality development,
particularly how teaching impact each developmental. Certainly, character relates with personality. According to Hurlock 1974, “when used in connection with
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personality, character relates to behavior that is regulated by personal effort and will” p. 4. Allport in Hurlock 1974 clarifies that personality development is “a
stage in growth of a constantly changing and evoking process within an individual” p. 7. This process becomes more complex because it is related to
patterning one’s self-concept, habits, attitudes, emotional states, sentiments and motives. It determines his or her uniqueness in speech and in actions to others, in
mannerism, in fantasy, and in other ways directed toward the specific goal to adjust to his environment 8.
Many people will change their personalities when they come into adulthood. The stage of development itself will influence their basic personalities
from childhood into adulthood. There are many factors that contribute to the personality development such as their own willingness and their environment
aspect. Based on Hurlock 1972 the school influences the child’s developing personalities both in the area of traits and in the information of the self-concept.
At school, the teacher’s personality is more important than her knowledge or teaching skills. In the following, Hurlock states the direct and indirect importance
of the teachers p. 478. First, emotional climate is one of the important things to support teaching
learning activities in the classroom. This is due mainly to the teacher’s attitude toward her works and her pupils. Second, the teacher affects the child’s self-
concept by her attitude toward his academic work and his school behavior directly. Indirectly, her influence comes from helping him to develop socially
approved patterns of adjustment. Third, the discipline used in the school affects
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