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Stories from the Districts...
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BATU: Disseminating PAKEM
Dissemination of PAKEM in primary and junior secondary schools is continuing. Dissemination at primary school level is taking place mainly through the Teachers Working Group (KKG) for each subject - Science, Social Stu-dies, Mathematics, Bahasa Indonesia, Early Grades, Islamic religion and Sport. Meetings take place for each subject in turn at district level.
The participants in the meetings consist of one teacher from each of the 86 state and private primary schools in Batu. The same thing applies at junior secondary level via the Subject Teachers Working Groups (MGMP) for Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Bahasa Indonesia and English.
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The District Social Studies Working Group (KKG)
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Guru Subjects Advisory Teachers (GPMP)
Batu district has 65 subjects advisory teachers (GPMP) at primary school level and 15 at junior secondary level. The GPMP for primary schools come from the 13 clusters in 3 sub-districts, covering the whole of Batu (6 clusters in Batu, 4 clusters in Bumiaji, and 3 clusters in Junrejo).
Each cluster has five GPMP, one for each main subject, whereas for junior secondary schools there are three GPMP for each subject, The recruitment of the GPMP is done by the facilitators, Heads of the Sub-District Education Offices and school supervisors, based on observation of teachers working group (KKG/MGMP) meetings, as well as the commitment and competence of the teachers in implementing the results of the KKG/MGMP in their schools.
The GPMP are trained for three days. The material for the first day covers the curriculum and its characteristics (using the draft curriculum 2005), analysis of the curriculum, and strategies to improve the quality of teaching; the second day covers making and developing PAKEM lesson plans and mentoring techniques at the KKG/MGMP.
The third day covers identifying problems in teaching and drawing up a program for the Teachers Working Group (KKG/MGMP). The GPMP together with the School Principals Working Group (KKKS) then form a team which is responsible for implementing PAKEM in their cluster.
Replicating the Implementation of Activities
The Office of Education and Culture in Batu is replicating the style of implementation of MBE activities in the district, as it is considered both effective and efficient. This is being tried for a number of activities, including making practice questions for the national examination, whose questions are kept secret. You can see the active-ties in the picture. The result was very satisfactory.
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Making examination questions in Batu
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Innovations in Education
Not only that, the education and culture office in Batu has introduced other innovations. The 'Fluent in English' program has been launched by the Education Office in order to motivate teachers to prepare their students to speak English actively.
The Education Office in Batu is awarding Rp.1,000,000 in cash to teacher coordinators, who are judged by a team of assessors to have successfully trained their teams. In addition the education and culture office has successfully launched a magazine Sari Suara.
To date two editions have been published, in January and March 2006. The magazine includes writing from teachers about innovations in teaching using PAKEM and reports on MBE activities organized by the education office in Batu.
SUKOHARJO: Dissemination Training in PAKEM
SMPN 3 Tawangsari Has Great Potential
Who would think that a school in a relatively remote area in Sukoharjo district would have a high level of commitment to change its pattern of education. That is what we have seen at SMPN 3 Tawangsari, Sukoharjo.
It appears that MBE with its PAKEM teaching model has caught the imagination of the school principals and teachers. While other similar schools are sticking to conventional models of teaching, the school asked MBE to train its teachers in PAKEM.
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Top: Bpk Muhammad Najid, MBE consultant (standing wearing a batik shirt) stimulating the participants in a group discussion.
Above: Bpk Joko, a Social Studies facilitator (standing) helping the participants make lesson plans.
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With the help of one MBE consultant and five MBE facilitators from Sukoharjo, 50 teachers from SMPN 3 Tawangsari took part in training at their own expense on 25 March 2006. The teachers took part in the training enthusiastically and were very active.
Then the school princepal ordered all the teachers to immediately apply models of PAKEM teaching, starting the following day. SMPN 3 Tawangsari is ready to change and ready for the next round of training.
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