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Making up a Conversation
Photo 1: Grade 3 students at SD Turen 2 are role playing a telephone conversation they have written, using old telephones and observed by their teacher, Ibu Yamini.
Pak Asari Teaches Fractions
During a visit by the MBE team, the grade 3 children at SD Tumpuk Renteng 1 were learning about fractions by shading in a number of shapes (see photo 2). Bpk. Asari, MBE Provincial Coordinator for East Java wanted to discover in more depth how far the children understood that fractions consist of parts of an object which are the same size. He drew number of shapes on the blackboard and shaded fractions which were the same size or different sizes in order to assess the children's understanding (photo 3).
Grade 1 Students Making Up Their Own Story Problems
Photos 4 & 5 (above): Galuh, a child in grade 1 at SDN 2 Purbalingga Lor, being watched by his teacher, Ibu Esti Widiastuti, has made up his own story problems. This activity develops the children's understanding as well as their creativity - and remember this is just grade 1 !
Simple teaching aids
In grade 1, SD 69 Banda Aceh the children are learning about triangles using matchsticks as simple and cheap teaching aids.
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Working Alongside a District Facilitator
Based on our experiences in the MBE program, teachers working alongside other teachers in the classroom is a very effective form of training in helping teachers to develop PAKEM lessons. Teachers are placed for a period of several days in the classroom of a teacher who has already mastered PAKEM. He or she helps in the class and learns about a good teaching and learning processes.
The program of the district facilitators in Pati district was overloaded, as they were training teachers in their own district and other districts as well. So the Pati district facilitators decided to change their program of mentoring in the MBE schools. Instead they invited the teachers to work alongside the facilita-tors in the facilitators' own classrooms. The program was agreed between the principals of the MBE schools and the primary school facilitators and lasted for three days for each subject. During this work experience, a number of lessons were learned:
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It increased the teachers' experience and understanding of the material in the curriculum.
It improved their lesson planning.
It gave them experience in facing children other than those in their own classes.
They learned different forms of assessment.
They learned a lot of other lessons from the school were working in.
The practical teaching in the school increased their understanding of PAKEM.
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1.Bpk Sutaji science teacher at SD Tamabahmulyo 02 working at Bpk Kabullah Daim's school
2. Bpk Kabullah Daim with Bpk Sulistyono
3. Bu Narni from SD Jakenan with a teacher from SD Kuryokalangan
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Developing Simple Technology
The children of grade 5b at SDN 2 Purbalingga Lor made pinhole cameras. A picture is projected on the screen at the back of the camera by the rays of light that enter through the pinhole at the front.
Below: Ibu Sutiyah, grade 5b teacher together with Amelia and Dani, two grade 5 children, holding their cameras.
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