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Training was held from 19 - 21 December 2005 at the Kartika Hotel in Pontianak. The participants came from 16 WVI target schools North Pontianak sub-district. There were a total of 75 participants. They were made up of the school principal, 1 teacher, and 2 school committee members from each of the schools.
The training was opened by the Head of the Primary School Section at Pontianak Education Office with a welcome address from Erickson Sidjabat from WVI. The training materials used was the Training Package 1 developed jointly by MBE and CLCC. The participants worked on the SBM and the community participation units.
From the first day they were very enthusiastic and eager to know more about SBM and community participation.
On the second day they started making school vision, mission, and school goals / expectations state-ments. Then they continued by making tables to help them make their School Development Plans (RIPS). On day three they finished producing their RIPS and agreed to display the results on their school notice boards.
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Suyitno, one of the MBE facilitators, helping the participants plan a citizenship lesson. You can also see Erickson Sidjabat (standing wearing a white shirt) watching the discussion taking place
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The last activity involved discussing monitoring indi-cators related to their follow-up plans for monitoring the impact of the training over the next six months. After sharing information with the other school groups they agreed that the results of their discussions would be written on sheets of large manila card and displayed openly at their schools.
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The classroom before its reorganization.
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The training activities which focus on SBM and community participation should have finished on 21 December 2005, but the WVI team extended the training activities for a further three days from 22 - 24 December 2005 with new participants and different training materials.
The teachers and principals in North Pontianak were so keen to learn that the WVI team found their enthusiasm difficult to contain. Finally the WVI had to limit the number of participants from the schools to 1 - 2 teachers per school with a total of 30 participants.
The training materials focused on PAKEM. To create a good learning environment teachers need materials that are interesting. Having identified facilities and other things that should be available in their classrooms, they reorganized their classrooms. It was called 'scanning the classroom'. The participants experienced for themselves how a class could be reorganized to support PAKEM-style learning activities.
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The participants made displays of student work, reading and clean corners, etc.
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The participants planning the classroom reorganisation.
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After the teaching practice the training participants make an exhibition.
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The teaching practice was followed up with a post-teaching expo. This activity was attended by teachers, principals, and supervisors. Many schools asked WVI for more training of this kind. The response was well received and WVI will have a follow-on program in 2006.
Congratulations North Pontianak, Congratulations WVI!
By: Suyitno, Primary School Supervisor/MBE Facilitator from Probolinggo.
Training Impact Evaluation in Makassar
A number of districts in South Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, North Sulawesi and South Kalimantan which receive funding from the World Bank through the 'Kecamatan Development Program' will conduct SBM, Community Participation and PAKEM programs like those being implemented in the MBE and CLCC programs. Training of the target schools will be managed by the Ministry of National Education.
The NGO, Save The Children UK, has been given the task of monitoring the program impact, including its impact on students. At the end of July 2005 Bpk Hadi, an MBE consultant from East Java and Mr. Stuart Weston, the MBE Program Director trained a team from South Sulawesi to implement the tests used by MBE to evaluate the program's impact on students. Mr. Hadi is pictured on the right together with Karin Johnson from Save the Children UK and a number of members of the team of testers.
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