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News from the Provinces
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Teacher's in Karanganyar participating in BTL 2 replication
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Let's Support Replication!
FOLLOWING replication of DBE3 training modules, learning activities in the classroom are more lively with student's having discussions, expressing their opinions, presenting their work and expressing their appreciation of other student's work. After the training, teacher's work to facilitate student learning. Another story came Let's Support Replication! from Dra. Sri Supanti Nurhayati, M.Pd, who began to revitalized the school level MGMP (teacher's
working group) after the teacher's in her school had participated in BTL 2 and BTL 3 training.
That forum helped in improving the quality of learning in her school. This has been shown by the Science MGMP which successfully developed their own lesson plans, assessment rubrics, student worksheets, as well as designing simple learning media. A success story also came from Munawaroh, M.Si, a social studies
teacher from Purworejo. She said, "It is delightful to see student's having discussions with their group mates and then presenting their work with confidence. Teacher's here try to make learning relevant to student's daily life." As an example, Munawaroh took her student's to a teak forest near her school to learn about the relationship between plants and types of soil.
In the implementation and replication of an education program teacher's play a strategic role to improve quality of learning. With support from principal's, who are also key players in improving the quality of learning, schools have been able to fully implement better teaching and learning. As of March 2011, DBE3 Central Java recorded that 782 schools with 5980 teacher's had participated in replication programs. Districts contributed Rp. 808.997.700 for this program. Additionally, each district has their own sustainability planning for this replication program. Let's support replication!
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Learning through Poetry
"POETRY not only enriches Bahasa Indonesia lessons, but it also stimulates student's to express what they learn through the use of their vocabulary and sensitizea them to their surroundings." This statement came from Drs. Heru Purwata, M.Hum, a Bahasa Indonesia teacher, who sometimes uses the environment as an inspiration for writing poetry. However, this involves more than just getting out of the classroom, seeing nature and then writing the poems.
Student's get bored with this kind of activity fairly quickly.
The following is a way to write poetry with nature as the inspiration:
- Take the students outside the classroom or anywhere with a wide space. Ask the student's to sit in a circle with the teacher sitting in the middle. Ask the student's to observe the natural environment.
- Divide the student's into several groups according to the number of objects to be used for inspiration, such as "rice paddy", "coconut tree", "garbage", etc. Then ask the student's observe the object thoroughly and decide the most interesting part of that object, they describe it and turn the description into lines of poems, and finally polish them to make a beautiful poem.
- When student's work in small groups, the teacher circulates around the groups to motivate them. One thing to remember is that all poems are good, none of them is bad or wrong.
- Following that, the student's read their poems to their small groups. Ask each student to assess their peers and decide who will represent the group .
- Student's then gather in a large group and the teacher asks about their experience when writing and reading their poems in the smaller group.
- After sharing their experience, the teacher asks represenatives from each group to read their poems. To make it more interesting, each student is asked to assess the other groups and the group with the best poem wins a prize.
- Ask student's opinions on the winner, how the poem was read, was the content interesting, etc.
- Lastly, ask student's to put their poems wherever they like, on the ground, on a tree, etc.
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The teacher guides the student's to observe the natural environment and make a poem out of it
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Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education
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Edition 10 / May 2011
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