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Teaching Practice at SD Kedungdalem 1

Creativity can be developed through all subjects. Student of grade 6 SD Kedungdalem 1 were asked to make some pictures on squared paper and then write the coordinates of the corners of the pictures.

Mereka menulis koordinat sudut-sudut gambar tersebut

Another example: instead of giving pictures to fill in values of fractions, students of grade 3 made various pictures of their own to show one half (1/2).

Their own words Their own words 		Some graphics drawings (1) The work of Putri Rahayu
Ibu Gunarti from Banuwangi during the teaching practice ob-serving the work of one of the students, Putri Rahayu.
Some graphics drawings (2)





Children of Grades 1 and 2 can write sentences, using their own words.

Children in Class 2



One of the key factors of success is the role of the Office of Education

The Future Program

Socialization of MBE program
There need to be meetings to explain the MBE to key persons in the target districts. Meetings will be organized in every district involving more or less 50 participants from the target two sub districts. This is scheduled for October 2003.

School Mapping
Activities for school mapping will be carried out in three phases, firstly a workshop on school mapping, secondly data collection, and thirdly a workshop to analyze the data. The workshop on school mapping will be carried out at province level in October, 2003 in East Java and Central Java.. The actual data collection and school mapping will be carried out in October-November. The workshop for analyzing the data from school mapping will take place in November.

School and Community Training
The district trainers that have been trained in Probolinggo have been asked to try out in their own schools what they have learned in the workshop. This will be followed by school training for principals, teachers and local community members from 20 target schools in December 2003. The training will be done by the trainers from each district and will be supported by national trainers.


Visit by USAID
During the training of trainers in Probolinggo, we were visited by Theresa Tuano from USAID as the donor agency that is financing the MBE program. She is from United States, but her father is from the Phillippines. She has been in Indonesia for one month, but already speaks Bahasa Indonesia well. She enjoyed visiting a number of schools, including convential primary schools, Madrasahs and junior secondary schools, as she wanted to find out about the real conditions of basic education in Indonesia. At schools that have been practicing MBE program she was impressed to see changes happening including open financial management, community involvement and especially innovative teaching learning activities. The students were doing active learning and showed self confidence in talking with her. The quality of the children's work was in general very impressive.

A pupil from SD Ngepung, Sukapura welcomes Theresa Tuano from USAID Pupil from SD Ngepung welcomes Theresa Tuano
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