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BANYUWANGI: School and Community United
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MBE aims to empower the community to help schools and at the same time open schools to the community. In this way schools can adapt to the aspirations and needs of the community and become responsible for serving the whole community, including the students and parents.
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The school is hidden in a densely populated part of town but has until recently not encouraged the community to get involved in the school. The community felt for the previous ten years that SD Temenggungan had been dormant without any activities, achievements and students of which they can be proud.
How ever, since the middle of 2005, when the school principal and teachers invited and encouraged the community to work together to improve the schools, results have gradually begun to show. Driven by the Head of Temenggungan Village, Bpk Drs. Sutijana and the Head of Village Council Bpk Andi Supriyadi and supported enthusiastically by a former student Bpk H. Bambang S.
Urip and the Head of the School Committee, Bpk Sentot Hariyanto they have been successful in gaining the assistance of local business people to provide books for the teachers and sports shirts for the students, most of whom come from poor backgrounds. What is more, Temenggungan, which is situated in Banyunwangi district, is known as a center of the arts, as a variety of arts are practiced there as well as many sports.
Now many prominent artists and sportsmen have volunteered to train the students without being paid. Another notable event from the school year 2006/2007 was when the school, which has 74 students, was offered free courses at 'DIO COMPUTER'for students in grades 4, 5 and 6, as well as for the teachers. Former students also managed to obtain a computer to support the school administration.
The target for 2007/2008 is to have in-school computer activities for the students at SDN Temenggungan. Besides extracurricular activities, the everyday teaching and learning activities have also received assistance from the community. For example, a Batik Center, Gajah Oling Banyuwangi, which is located near the school, has been teaching the students to do batik.
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Bpk. H. Bambang S. Urip (former student), Bpk. Sentot (School Committee) dan Ibu Barorotin (School principal ) working together with great enthusiasm to develop the school
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To evaluate progress, the school and the community (including many different sections of the village) make routine three monthly visits to the school. The aims of these visits are to draw up a prog-ram of assistance, to evaluate their successes and find solutions to problems faced by the school. The results of the evaluation are presented in form of a report entitled 'Evaluation of the Working Program of SDN Temenggungan Building for Tomorrow'.
TRENGGALEK: Dissemination of PAKEM Increasing
With the introduction of school level syllabuses and various government policies and rules in the field of education, increasing numbers of teachers agree that teaching methods involving PAKEM are most appropriate to meet the demands of the future, as set out by the government.
Many teachers who previously strongly rejected PAKEM (because they didn't want to be bothered or were pessimists) are now looking to PAKEM to satisfy the demands of the education laws and the professional and certification needs of teachers.
This is reflected in the increasing number of requests from subdistricts to be trained by MBE in PAKEM and the increasing numbers of participants in PAKEM training in dissemination subdistricts.
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The third round of PAKEM training for MBE schools in Trenggalek from 1 - 7 February 2007 was followed up two weeks later from 19 - 24 February with PAKEM training for non MBE subdistricts, Durenan (at SDN 3 Ngadisuko) and Karangan (at SDN 1 Buluagung). The training was planned for 22 schools and 125 participants per subdistrict, but the enthusiasm of teachers and schools inflated the number of participants.
In Durenan the numbers were increased to 27 schools and more than 150 participants, while in Karangan there were even more, 35 schools with 245 participants including school principals and teachers from conventional and religious primary and junior secondary schools (SD/MI/SMP/MTs).
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1. The Head of the MBE team in Trenggalek, Drs. Gandhi Priyadi speaking at the opening of PAKEM 3 training for the MBE schools.
2. School supervisors in Karangan subdistrict actively participating in the PAKEM dissemination training
3. A special class for school principals being led by one of the facilitators, Ibu Dyah during the MBE dissemination training in Durenan on 'The Role of the School Principals in Supporting PAKEM teaching'
4. One of the facilitators in the science class, Bpk Aznan during the PAKEM training in Durenan
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With the spread of PAKEM, Trenggalek Local Government, and more particularly the District Education Office, is having to consider the formation of a team of facilitators in each subdistrict (in some cases two subdistricts working together) and giving training to these facilitators to enable them to carry out their job.
This is a reminder of the large area covered by Trenggalek district and of the number of subdistricts, which is greater in number than the twelve MBE district facilitators. As well as giving training, these twelve facilitators also have duties in their own offices and schools.
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