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Every six months representatives of MBE districts meet to review MBE activities which have taken place over the previous six months. The participants include representatives of the Local Development Agency, Education Office, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Local Parliament and Education Council.
For the first time Banda Aceh joined in to make a total of 21 districts. Each district mounted a display about MBE activities. These were very impressive. There were speakers from several districts including teachers, school principals, the Head of a Sub-District Education Office and other local government officials.
1. Mrs. Endri and Mrs. Nuzuli, MBE coordinators from Blitar and Banda Aceh working together to prepare the Banda Aceh display.
2. The displays from a number of districts: Kabupaten Probolinggo (foto 2a), Trenggalek (foto 2c), Situbondo (foto 2d), and Kebumen (foto 2b), which show the progress of schools and districts since MBE started.
3. Bpk Supanut the champion of School Based Management (SBM) and PAKEM in Probolinggo, has now been appointed as District Head of Education. He accompanied the district Secretary, Bpk Kusnadi at the opening of the Review and Planning Meeting.
4. The participants of the workshop discussing the presentations from the resource persons.
Schools in Pasuruan Impress the Participants
Pasuruan municipality joined the third phase of MBE last April. Although it only recently joined the program and the schools have been trained only once in SBM and PAKEM, there were pleasing signs of MBE and PAKEM in all the schools visited.
5. SD Petamanan is displaying children's work both inside and outside classrooms. The school development plan and budget are also displayed. The children's work displayed is varied and includes poetry, stories and reports.
6. The students of SD Bangilan enjoyed using pictures from newspapers to write about current events in Indonesia. Each student made his/her own report based on their picture.
7. At SD Bukir four schools in one site have been merged into one. The classrooms are filled with interesting students' work and the students are organized to work in groups. One idea which was evident in several schools in Pasuruan was displaying news-papers outside the class for the students to read.
Other learning resources, which we saw in some classes, were small books of clippings from the newspaper, which the students had made and were using for various lessons including Social Studies and Bahasa Indonesia.
The schools in Pasuruan feel proud of the commitment shown by their teachers and school principals in adopting PAKEM in their classes. Big changes have taken place in a short time.
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