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Stories from the Districts...
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PURWOREJO: MBE Teachers Working Group (KKG)
In February 2006 Purworejo district formed an MBE cluster in the two sub-districts (Kutoarjo and Butuh). The basic idea in forming these MBE clusters was:
To increase the professionalism of teachers and school principals, to enable them to exchange ideas, to increase their creativity and effectiveness and to develop innovations in teaching.
To develop the results of the MBE teachers working group in their own regular Teachers Working Groups (KKGs) which are already running and include non MBE schools, as part of the effort to spread PAKEM to other schools.
The MBE teachers working group program has already been drawn up and activities are planned to take place every month in each sub-district. The first activities in Kutoarjo sub-district took place on 18 March at SD 2 Kutoarjo, supported by district facilitators. The activities were divided into two sessions.
Stressing PAKEM approaches in schools: In their school groups they discussed and reviewed PAKEM activities and associated problems. This was followed by presentations, discussions and solving problems together.
A working group meeting on Bahasa Indonesia: This activity included modeling a Bahasa Indonesia lesson using PAKEM by the district facilitator, Ibu Wahyu Heniwati. The participants observed the modeling and discussed the learning scenario.
Then in their school groups they discussed what they had learned from modeling, wrote down the result of this discussion and shared the results with the other school groups as part of the learning process.
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Participants in the working group discussing PAKEM
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The working group was supported by district facilitators, Bpk Kusbandono and Ibu Wahyu Heniwati seen here modeling a PAKEM lesson observed by primary school supervisor Bpk Wahono
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An interesting aspect of this MBE cluster Teachers Working Group is that activities are scheduled to take place in turn in each of the target schools. This is so that they can visit each other's schools. Before the activities begin they can have a look round the school and look at the displays of students' work. They can give inputs and get good ideas from the schools and encourage the schools to make even more progress.
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Improving PAKEM in SD Wonorejo Kulon
There have been changes in the early grades classes in SD Wonorejo Kulon in Butuh sub district since they have been doing PAKEM. Here are examples of children's work from grades 1 and 2.
Right: The work of a grade 1 student, Sarah Samhana Alamsya, at SD Wonorejo Kulon.
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Before PAKEM, grade 1 students just drew and wrote the name of fruits. Now they are given freedom to draw several different fruits and write descriptions of them.
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Sarwanto, a grade 2 student at SD Wonorejo Kulon has written a story about a picture in his own words.
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Ibu Sumarsih, the grade 1 teacher at Wonorejo Kulon is also a district facilitator for the early grades and has made many changes in her school.
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PACITAN: Working Group (KKG) for MBE Schools
As part of the effort to raise the quality of education and to monitor the results of training, a teachers working group meeting was held on 18 March 2006 at SDN Baleharjo 1.
The meeting was attended by 116 participants, consisting of school principals, class teachers and subject teachers.
The activities started with a plenary session to agree the program of the working group. First they divided the curriculum into themes, than allocated these themes to semesters and weeks.
The working group was supported by two facilitators assisted by ten teachers who were considered to have proved their ability to implement the results of training in their classes.
Each class was observed by two of these people and the agenda was the same in each class. In future this working group is going to form part of the program of training and mentoring.
It will include planning lessons, talking about teaching methods and doing practical teaching. Activities will take place each month and include participants from all the MBE schools in Pacitan sub-district.
The schools will be closed for the day from 08.00 to 11.30. The working group also involves several schools supervisors and is coordinated by the Head of the Sub-District Education office.
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The working group is similar to training. The participants are divided into subject groups and have intensive discussions led by a facilitator.
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