SBM and PAKEM Training in Situbondo...

All the participants in the training appeared enthusiastic and active while attending the scheduled activities. Based upon the principle of "learning by doing" the participants only received brief and general information from the facilitators, then they discussed and shared ideas on various issues relating to school management, encouraging community participation, and facilitation of active, creative, joyful and effective learning methodology.

To gain more information about SBM and Community Participation, principals and committees of the schools visited primary and junior secondary schools in the MBE target areas, while the teachers and supervisors did teaching practice using PAKEM in the target schools.

At the end of the training principals, teachers, school committees, and supervisors made a "personal contract" that the outcomes of the training would serve as the initial step in their efforts to improve the quality of education in their schools, based upon the individual tasks, roles, and responsibilities of the respective participants.

Nganjuk District in Pictures

PAKEM 3 Training in Kota Batu

PAKEM 3 training was conducted in Kota Batu. The training was attended by 219 participants including 121 primary school and 50 junior secondary school teachers, 15 primary school principals, 5 secondary school principals, 22 supervisors, and 6 staff from Dinas.

Batu City's government is very concerned about the quality of education in its district. This could be seen from the enthusiasm of the head and members of the education committee of the local parliament, and also the Head of the Education Office and his staff when they visited the PAKEM 3 training (photo 1).

PAKEM 3 training was also conducted for non-target schools. This training was attended by 370 primary school teachers (SD and MI) and 70 principals from all non-target primary schools throughout the 3 sub-districts.

This training has produced some tangible outcomes. They can be seen in the implementation of the learning methodologies by the teachers in the target schools. At SDN Tulungrejo 04, Bumiaji Sub-district, PAKEM has been applied in science lessons in grade 4 (photos 3 and 4). Meanwhile, at SDN Punten 01 they have applied PAKEM in the Mathematics lessons in grade 2. PAKEM can also be applied in Islamic religious lessons, particularly to memorize short passages from the Qur'an as has been done by teachers at SDN 01 Beji. Each passage is written on paper petals, then the students are asked to arrange each of the petals into a flower with the correct sequencing.