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Parents Help Students in the Classroom
Parents helping students in classrooms started in Probolinggo. Now the practice has commenced in Banyuwangi, for example, Jajag 7 Primary School in Gambiran sub-district. However, there are teachers in that school and in other areas that are not yet ready to welcome parents into the classroom.
Ibu Sri Suwarti, a teacher of class 1 of Jajag 7 is very happy and grateful for this assistance as her students previously did not receive any individual help before, but today they can get help any time they need it, and the learning of reading and writing skills has accelerated.
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Parents helping in class 1 Jajag 7 Banyuwangi (above left). As many as 11 parents help in the classroom - this is a photograph of the class 1 parents together with the teacher Ibu Sri Suwarti and the Principal, Bpk H. Suryono (above right).
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MBE Suitable for Regional Autonomy
Bpk Sugiyanto from the Directorate of Kindergarten and Primary Schools and Bpk Heru Asri from the Directorate of Junior Secondary Education at the Ministry of National Education together with Mr. Stuart Weston from MBE (Up). They are seen observing the implementation of the MBE training program during the training of the MBE Facilitators for the new districts.
"The MBE Program is very suitable for schools development, especially during this Regional Autonomy Era" This statement was made by Bpk Sugiyanto, one of the officials from the Directorate of Kindergartens and Primary Schools, Ministry of National Education, Jakarta while he was visiting the MBE Facilitator Training Program activities for the new districts in August at Banyuwangi, East Java. He continued by saying that with this MBE program for improving the quality of education and the role of the community and PAKEM, it is hoped that the development of education in Indonesia will be more oriented toward improved quality and greater accountability.
According to Bpk Sugiyanto, programs for managing basic education like MBE have already been proved to be effective with similar programs by UNESCO and Unicef running in other districts in Central Java and East Java. Further to this Mr. Sugiyanto said that we should use programs like MBE to develop a basic education program in Indonesia that is more efficient, effective, rational, accountable and transparent!!
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