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PACITAN: Visit to Multigrade Schools
Pacitan is one of the MBE partner districts. In order to increase effectiveness, efficiency and quality, the District Education Office, sup-ported by the MBE program, has introduced "multigrade teaching". This model is applied in remote schools, which have small numbers of pupils and only a limited number of teachers.
With this model of teaching neighboring classes are taught together in the same room, using the same theme but with different tasks.Many schools have fewer than 60 pupils in all. But they are situated along way from other schools, so that is impossible to merge these schools to make larger schools.
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1. The MBE consultants explaining the results of their visit to the field to the Head of the Education Office, Bpk. Fatoni SH
2. Group work in a multigrade classroom
3. Early grades students learning using teaching aids
4. A display in a multigrade classroom
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In Pacitan district there are several remote schools. Six schools have already been trained and district facilitators have mentored and supervised them. Of course there are many problems in implementing this system. This is why the activity described below took place.
On 21 - 22 September 2006 MBE consultants, Lynne Hill and Angie came to observe directly lessons in multigrade schools. The aim of the visit was to see how far schools are able to apply PAKEM teaching methods in multigrade classes and to get feedback about the problems teachers are facing in order to design future training and facilitation activities.
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SD Sidoarjo 2 , SD Punung 2 SD Tambakrejo 2
Three schools were visited: SD Sidoarjo 2 in Pacitan Subdistrict, SD Punung 2 in Punung Subdistrict and SD Tambakrejo 2 in Arjosari Subdistrict. During the visit Lynne Hill was impressed by the enthusiasm of the teachers in the multigrade schools. In SD Sidoarjo 2 and SD Punung 2 there were a number of voluntary teachers who have not yet received training, but were very keen to ask questions of the MBE consultants.
The three schools that were visited agreed to be pilots of the multigrade program to implement following activities:
Hold special teachers working group (KKG) meetings for multigrade schools supported by district facilitators;
Take part in another training organized by the education office and MBE;
Visit each others' schools and hold discussions between the multigrade schools;
Create special multigrade facilitators;
- Make multigrade training modules.
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SEMARANG: PAKEM Spreads to Several Clusters
Since being implemented in the partner schools, MBE activities have started to spread to various parts of Semarang district. On the 28 September 2006 training to introduce PAKEM took place in Patimura cluster in Pringapus Subdistrict. The MBE facilitators were asked to pass on their knowledge about PAKEM. In the photograph above the teachers are modeling PAKEM activities for the early grades during the training.
Besides this, there have been many requests from schools in several subdistricts in Semarang for dissemination at the schools' own expense. This has been programmed for after the fasting month so that the training will be more effective.
MAGETAN: Busy Spreading MBE
Training in CTL in Maospati and Magetan
Training in contextual learning (CTL) for all junior secondary schools in Maospati Subdistrict took place from 22 - 24 July 2006 and for Magetan Subdistrict from 22 to 24 August 2006. This was part of the training to change secondary schools.
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The aim of the training was to:
Improve teaching processes;
Introduce active learning (PAKEM/CTL);
Help teachers to implement lessons according to the curriculum using PAKEM/CTL.
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After teaching practice the participants are busily displaying the students' work and their reflections.
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The training was facilitated by MBE. Besides the MBE partners schools SMPN Magetan 1 and 3 took part in the PAKEM/CTL training in Magetan subdistrict.
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