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Interesting News from Probolinggo
During the orientation workshop for the new MBE districts the participants visited several schools in Probolinggo. Here are some reports about some of those schools.
Mbah "Don" Atini
"At first I brought my granddaughter to school, then I became a teacher's assistant"
When we first met her in one of the grade 2 classrooms in SDN Maron Wetan 1, she was helping a a number of class students to write their 'name cards' vocabulary in English and Indonesian. That is Mbah Atini, one of the children's grandparents who has become a teacher's assistant.
The children call her with the familiar name "Mbah Don" (Grandma), when she comes in voluntarily to help the teachers during the lessons.
"At first I just used to bring my granddaughter to school, but eventually I thought I'd like to help the teacher in class. At least I thought I could help as best I could and form a link between the parents of the children in the class and the class teacher."
Bpk. Samik S.Pd., the school principal, explained that parents (and others) helping in class is part of the program of the parents group. Their job is not to replace the teacher but to support the children's learning by giving extra assistance to the children.
They work as volunteers, and there are no set work hours, but they have a role in linking the teacher and parents. We call then 'guru ngintip', when they do what Mbah Atini and other parents do as voluntary teachers' assistants.
So that's Mbah "Don" Atini, who in the midst of all her other activities and despite the fact that she is no longer young can still spare time and energy to be a voluntary teacher.
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Auctioning the Children's Work
Some time ago all the primary, junior secondary and special schools both public and private in Banyuwangi sub-district took the initiative and trained all the schools and their communities in the sub-district at their own expense.
School principals, teachers and committee members took part in the training. In order to help a number of the smaller schools, who were short of funds but very enthusiastic about taking part in the activities, SDN 4 Penganjuran tried auctioning some of the children's work with the funds raised being used to help subsidise these small schools.
The work auctioned included painting, handicrafts, ash trays and other things. One of the class 3 children at SDN 4 Penganjuran, Tysa, acted as auctioneer.
Up:Tysa, a class 3 student at SDN 4 Penganjuran auctioning paintings done by her friends to the participants of the school and community training in Banyuwangi sub-district seen here with one of the painting she sold.
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Class 1 Children Can't Write??
We were heading for classes 1 and 2 at SD Ngepung in Sukapura sub-district, when one of the participants in the workshop asked, "Why are we going there?"
"We want to see the children's writing."
The participants replied, "But class 1 children can't write, they can only copy from the blackboard!"
We went into class 1 in this rural school where many of the children come from low-income homes. The children's own writing was displayed on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. There was lots of children's work all written neatly and made into beautiful small books. What is more some of the writing was in English!.
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Poetry written by Nuryasin, a class 2 child in SD Ngepung (up). Nuryasin with his teacher, Ibu Suliani and an assistant teacher, Titis, who is still an education student in Jember. She helps at SD Ngepung three times a week.
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Ernawati, a class 3 child at SD Ngepung, reading poetry(up) which she has written about the cold season it is true, in Sukapura, high on the slopes of Mount Bromo, they do have a cold season!
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