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BANYUMAS
There's a Big Man in the School!!!
The students at SDN 3 Kalisalak were surprised when the independent team came to their school.
As the end of the MBE program approaches, an independent team visited several districts. One of them was Banyumas. Their visit coincided with the first day back in school after the holidays, 29 January 2007. The team divided into two to visit each of the MBE assisted subdistricts, Ajibarang and Kebasen.
In photo 1 David Evans can be seen greeting the students at SDN 3 Kalisalak. Together with David Evans is Bpk Basri Wello. In photo 2 you can see Bpk Basri visiting a class at MI Bentul. At the time of the visit a member of the parents group was helping in class. The members of the group take turns in helping with the teaching.
In Photo 3 the independent team accompanied by Bpk Ferdy, an MBE consultant are seen having discussions with parents group members and a teacher from SDN 3 Kalisalak.
MALANG
On 13 February 2007 the independent evaluation team visited Malang. Photo 4 shows the leader of the team, David Evans watching a lesson in MI NU Wadung. Using PAKEM approaches, the grade 3 students were confident enough to practice their English by talking to the native English speaker who was visiting their school.
Mr. David appeared very pleased at how active the students were in their lessons. With Ibu Furaidah translating he said, "This is the first time I have seen a madrasah which is able to teach in this way. Furthermore, I am amazed how well the school management has been able to mobilize the community to help with the teaching in class."
At SDN Wonokerso 3 in Pakisaji subdistrict, Malang, the grade 5 students were able to ask David Evans to have their photos taken with him and many of them asked more difficult questions - not just "what's your name?" and "where do you come from?". They asked about why he was visiting the school, what he was doing with MBE and so on.
Photo 5 shows the independent evaluation team, accompanied by the school principal, Ali Dinar Harahap, holding discussions with members of the class parents group to find out what form their activities take, as they support the educational processes in the school.
The independent evaluation team was very impressed with the impact of the MBE program on the partner schools. The team was able to observe directly the high level of involvement of the various stakeholders in raising the quality of education, including the school principals who were applying SBM democratically and transparently; the teachers were organizing the classrooms creatively and constructively; the school committees and parents groups were participating intensively in the learning process is; and the students were enthusiastic about learning.
PROBOLINGGO
The information we received from the evaluation team indicated that they were very satisfied with the performance and success of the program in Probolinggo.
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They even recommended that other USAID funded programs should implement programs similar to MBE.
ACEH
Photo 6 was taken during the visit to Aceh.
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