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MBE is spreading in all areas.
MBE program is developing models of better education in 20 target schools in each program district, including Conventional and Religious Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. The program develops School Based Management (SBM), Community Participation, and improves the quality of education through PAKEM. To support this program 12 facilitators have been trained in each district.
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Teaching models like this have already started to spread to more than 900 non-target schools in MBE areas
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The program has been running for over a year in five districts: Batang, Pati, Pacitan, Probolinggo and Banyuwangi, and each area has now started to develop the program in other schools. This expansion is being undertaken in all of the areas at their own cost with the help of our consultants.
It is not only development within the schools that is taking place but in Pacitan and Batang the school mapping model has now become the model for routine data collection in all sub-districts for all schools in Pacitan, and for Junior and Senior High Schools in Batang (continued on page 2).
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Pondok Pesantren Learn about SBM and PAKEM
Because of demand for information about the MBE program from Pondok Pesantren (Islamic Boarding Schools) in Probolinggo, the District Education Office has provided training for the four biggest pondok pesantren. All teachers in these schools have been trained in SBM and PAKEM at their own cost by the MBE facilitators.
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MBE MBE Banyuwangi Attends an Expo
Banyuwangi has a yearly event to celebrate Independence Day and the anniversary of Banyuwangi district. This event is in the form of a regional development exhibition (Expo). All government departments and some private organizations participate in this important event. It was an ideal opportunity to introduce and distribute information about the MBE Project in Banyuwangi. Visitors included all sectors of the community and local government officials.
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Left: The Bupati of Banyuwangi, Ir. H. Samsul Hadi (wearing the red hat) reading "Suara MBE" at the District Education Office stand.
Right: Information about the MBE Program at the Banyuwangi EXPO
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MBE Supports the New Curriculum
MBE has just finished two local facilitator training sessions, the first was in August in Banyuwangi for the five new districts, and the second was in September and October in Yogyakarta for all districts. The latter training was mainly focused on the implementation of the new curriculum, the Competency Based Curriculum. As an example, the teachers of the early years (grades 1 and 2) are encouraged to teach thematically, by integrating different subjects into one theme. In thematic learning students work on one theme for several days.
On the right the first grade teachers at District Facilitator Training trying out a thematic approach during teaching practice. Read more about it on page 2.
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At the opening ceremony on 5 September 2004 MBE was given the opportunity to introduce itself to the community both to local government and the general public. The expo was held for two weeks and was opened by the Banyuwangi Bupati (district head). The MBE stand was run together with the district education office and was occupied by 3 schools who shared the facility in turns, each for 5 days.
Signing of MOUs
RTI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the 5 new districts who recently joined the MBE program: Banyumas, Kebumen, Blitar regencies and Batu and Madiun municipalities.
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Walikota Madiun, Bapak Kokok Raya, signed MoU with RTI
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This MOU is effective until the end of the MBE Program in March 2007, and sets out the activities to be implemented and the responsibilities of each party. It is expected that local governments will disseminate more widely the models being developed by the MBE program.
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What does MBE do?
The MBE program currently works in 10 districts in Central Java and East Java to improve the Management of Basic Education and to develop improved models of education in 20 schools in every district, including SD/MI and SMP/MTs. This sixth edition of the "Suara MBE" consists of 16 pages that provide information about innovation in the districts.
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