Mr. Rudi is a young and energetic teacher who has been teaching for 15 years. Mr. Rudi never thought that one day he would become a teacher. He started his career as a network engineer in an Internet Service Provider (ISP) company in Indonesia. One day his former teacher asked him to help set up a computer lab in his former school, State Vocational Secondary School 1 Cimahi, West Java province. While setting up the computer lab, his teacher told him that he should teach in the school too. So, he did and has fallen in love with teaching since then.

Mr. Rudi said that his students are teenagers. It is quite challenging sometimes to get the students to pay attention to the subject in class. His teaching technique is to capture the students’ interest by asking the students questions in order to find out what they like. After that, he would link the content in the class to the students’ interest individually.

For example, he started his lesson by asking what the students like to do or to be in the future. One student answered that he liked music. Mr. Rudi then searched on the Internet to look for an example of a role model. He found, Mr. Budi Rahhardjo, a famous network engineer who is also a famous digital musician in Indonesia. With real-life examples, he encourages his students that they can learn about network and become musician too. Another example is that he asked the students what sport they like to play. Several of the students said that they like to play football. Mr. Rudi team them up and worked with them on a project to develop a Football Game App on mobile phone. They students enjoy very much his class because it links to their interests and hobbies.

Mr. Rudi said he likes to make the lessons fun. He will go all the way to help his students when they face some difficulties in learning. He helps them overcome the challenges. He would tell them the goal and work with them to achieve the goal. He said that it is also important to inform the students what they can do with the skill and knowledge.

Mr. Rudi has won three significant National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture. One of his outstanding work is the “Peppermint Model” for Computer Network teaching and learning process. The model stands for plan, explore, practice, perform, enquiry, reflect, memorize and Internet.

Mr. Rudy never stops learning. He continuously improves himself by attending technical courses to be certified for networking instructor.