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On-the-Job Training for Schools in Pacitan
The MBE program in Pacitan district is already entering its second year. Dinas Pendidikan in Pacitan and their schools working together with RTI have carried out a lot of activities, especially implementing training. There have been at least three kinds of training, first SBM and community participation training, second PAKEM training and third training in drawing up School Development Plans.
The targets have been the schools represented by their teachers, principals and school committees. The aim of the training has been so that the school staff, especially the teachers and principal together with the school committee can improve the management of their schools. The teachers should also have mastered the skills and teaching methodologies which give the children the opportunity to explore their maximum potential. In the MBE program this is called PAKEM.
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In order to ensure continuity each school receives and implements each of the three kinds of training. District facilitators who are ultimately responsible for the success of the program give on-the-job training at each of the target schools. In this district the on-the-job training started in March 2004, two months after the implementation of PAKEM training.
To ensure the effectiveness of the on-the-job training the facilitators agreed the following conditions:
A set of indicators as a measurement of success
To divide the area up geographically (two facilitators responsible for on average 3 - 4 schools)
q The training took place at least twice a month and there was one trainer coordination meeting per month to discuss findings from schools, to use these as input for future training and to give advice and find solutions to problems.
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The results of the on-the-job training for the period April - May 2004 showed that in general most of the target schools are already doing PAKEM, but the nature and amount of it varies, while some schools are showing a large amount of progress.
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But more important were the problems identified in the field which we are working to solve. Some of the problems included:
- Inefficient use of learning resources
Conditions not conducive to children expressing their ideas and opinions freely
When group discussions take place, the teachers does not actively assist each group
- The teachers find the lesson scenarios (prepared during training) to difficult
To minimise these conditions various solutions have been tried in Pacitan, such as:
- Simplifying the lesson scenarios
Increasing teachers discipline - when the children are working in groups the teacher has to monitor and direct them
The school principal schedules a meeting each week to evaluate the implementation of PAKEM and discuss other matters
- A forum of MBE target schools has been created
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Using the various methods described above it is hoped to create a conducive atmosphere to make it is easier for teacher to implement PAKEM in class.
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