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BANDA ACEH: Training Must Use PAKEM
Training given by MBE always uses PAKEM in its activities. The role of the facilitators is to challenge the participants to think and do. The focus of the second training in Banda Aceh in August was on "questioning skills, class organization and cooperative learning". The participants also had to plan and implement a lesson in school, incorporating these three elements.
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1. During the teaching practice, Ibu Mariaulfah, one of the MBE national trainers is helping a grade 1 child at MIN Mesjid Raya, Banda Aceh to make simple sentences using word cards made by the teacher.
2. After returning from teaching practice in school to the training, the participants make a display of the students' work. Here the early grades teachers are making their display.
3. Johan, a grade 4 student at SD 63 Banda Aceh is making a list of the price of the items in his pencil case and adding up the total cost.
4. Learning from each other: members of other groups looking at the mathematics group display.
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PURWOREJO: Training in Madrasah Sets a Good Example
In Butuh Subdistrict in Purworejo PAKEM training took place at MI Lubang Indarman, even though the school is situated in a rural area and difficult to get to. The school was chosen because the stakeholders, including the principal, the foundation members and the teachers have all worked hard since MBE started, to make progress in school management, community participation and teaching and learning.
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The School Principal, Ibu Sri Mutri and Head of the Foundation, Bpk KH Abdullah Maksum are pictured in one of the classes.
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The training took place at , so that the participants could learn from the examples to be seen in the school.
MAGELANG: CTL Workshop at a SMPN 4 Magelang
SMPN 4 Magelang, one of the MBE partner schools in Magelang, held its own workshop on 9 August 2006 on contextual teaching and learning (CTL) in order to refresh the teachers and go in greater depth into the issues covered in the MBE training.
There were 40 participants in the training, including the school principal, teachers and laboratory staff. There were trained by Bpk Masjudi, the MBE Central Java Coordinator and the District Facilitators.
The school principal of SMPN 4 Magelang has made the commitment that eventually all his teachers should be able to teach the students using CTL, so that lessons improve and the students become more critical.
After Bpk Imam, a science facilitator (photo above) had modeled a lesson using CTL, all the participants did micro teaching to discover which of the foods they had been given contained vitamin C. After that, the teachers held a discussion led by the facilitators.
At the end of the workshop each of the teachers taking part made follow-up plans for the implementation of PAKEM/CTL in their subject. This will be monitored by the school principal.
PURBALINGGA: Komisi C Make Study Visit to Batu
Komisi (committee) C of the Purbalingga district parliament made a study visit on 19 - 21 September 2006 to MBE partner schools in Batu.
The group was led by the chairman of Komisi C, Bpk Drs Mustangin and aimed to increase the knowledge of the members of the committee, which is responsible for education. The group also drew on the management expertise of the principals of the more advanced schools in Purbalingga, who accompanied them on the visit.
The group was received by the Head of the Batu Education Office, Ibu Mistin, accompanied by the chairman of the Batu Komisi C in the meeting room of the Local Development Agency office. The schools visited were SDN 1 Punten, MI Bustanul Ulum and SMPN 2 Batu.
At each of the three schools the school principals felt that they increased their knowledge of school management and will be able to apply what they have learned in their schools in Purbalingga.
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