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MY name is Ilis Nurajizah. I am a teacher at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Ahliyah Bakanmaja, Kotabaru, Karawang, West Java. I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to participate in DBE3 training programs as the programs help teachers very significantly in improving their quality.

The training programs delivered by DBE3 are interesting and useful. I did not feel bored at all when participating in them. The training programs I followed made me wonder: if our trainers had made us enjoy the learning processes during the training, why could we not do the same thing with our students?

I have done it! I implemented the methods I learned during the DBE3 training and I could see that my students liked it. They were more enthusiastic and attentive. They loved the methods I used in the classroom. As for myself, I enjoyed teaching more.

Once there was a teacher who told me about her noisy students. She said, ”My throat was aching because I had to speak loudly to my students. It was so tiring teaching them,” she told me.

I replied that I used to be the same and advised her that she should give them lems to solve. They had to work on solving these in small groups. It worked. From what I see, most of the teachers who have

participated in DBE3 training programs have aplied the skills they learned. They have made their students more enthusiastic in learning. I believe that was because the methods taught are useful and applicable. In Karawang there are many teachers who still need DBE3 training.

We need to have program of dissemination so more teachers can improve. This can be done if all stakeholders, especially local government, support it. As a teacher who has participated in the DBE3 training program, I will continue to do my best to implement the skills which I learned from the training in my classrooms.

Adapted from an article written by Ilis Nurajizah.

HIS name is Juli Edi Sarwono. He is a Mathematics teacher at SMPN 19 Purworejo and a very simple man. We can learn a lot about him from his simplicity. Despite being busy teaching he also sells bakso (meat balls) around the area where he lives. When he gets home from school he sells bakso from 16.00 to about 23.00 in the evening. Although he is really busy, he doesn’t let his students down. In fact, he’s one of the most creative teachers in his school, SMPN 19.

One of the ways he shows his creativity is in making classroom displays, even though they only remain up for a few days because he has to take account of the other teachers teaching in the same classroom.

But all the same, when he takes the displays down from the classroom walls he makes them into a large book, like the one you can see (on the other page). Besides this he also finds time to make up trial examination

questions for his grade 9 students, who are going to do the national exams. And that’s not all! When he teaches the final periods of the day he quite often takes the students out into the school yard to learn, knowing that by this time they are often getting bored sitting in class.

And he gets good results from the SMPN 19 students in the national exams. Only one student so far in the school has ever got a perfect score of 10 and that was one of Pak Eko’s Math students.

Pak Eko, as he is familiarly called, says that he’s only able to do these things because of what he learned during the DBE3 foundation module training he took part in some time ago.

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