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Practical teaching at SMPN 4 Karanganom during the training.
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“Be Better Facilitators after Training”
THAT was what Kepala Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Karanganyar, Drs. Sri Sunanto, emphasized during his speech at the opening of DBE3 District Facilitators Training on March 29, 2009, at The Sunan Hotel Solo.
He also added that participants should consider the training as a means to improve their quality and skills in teaching. Furthermore Drs. Sri Sunanto extended his appreciation to DBE3 which has worked to improve the quality of education in Central Java.
He expected that everyone involved would support DBE3 programs. As for the participants, he asked them to apply the skills they learned in the training in their own schools.
The training which was facilitated by National Facilitators, took place from March 29 to April 1, 2009, involving 95 people consisting of District Facilitators, officials from Dinas Pendidikan, officials Mapenda of MoRA, and lecturers from Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNES – State University of Semarang).
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Jepara Finalises Plans for Dissemination
A MEETING was held between DBE3 and the Jepara District Education Office on January 22, 2009 to plan for the dissemination of DBE3 interventions in 2009. The meeting was attended by 7 persons from MoNE and MoRA, Bappeda and the Education Board.
At the end of the meeting, all participants agreed that dissemination will start after the national examination. Dissemination will include 15 SMP and 15 MTs from 4 sub districts in Jepara (Keling, Donorojo, Kembang, and Bangsri) and participants will include 90 teachers of Mathematics, Civics and English.
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The Profile of Pak Taqim
HIS full name is Drs. H. Mustaqim. He was born in Jepara on December 9, 1957. He works at the Ministry of Religious Affairs Office in Mayong, Jepara as a counsellor for religious affairs with the rank of Ahli Madya. Pak Taqim, that’s what people call him, joined DBE3 at the end of 2006 as a District Facilitator. He is res-ponsible for assisting five nonformal education (NFE) partners in the district of Jepara.
Pak Taqim always put the learners’ interests as his top priority. He visits the NFE partners twice a week, despite the distance between the NFE partners. The regular visits made by Pak Taqim are in addition to his duties as a District Facilitator. He does it out of his concern for the learners.
He said that the closer he is to the learners and tutors the better for him to work with them. For him, the students or learners should master a technical skills such as sewing, embroidery, computer and printing before graduating from Pondok Pesantren or PKBM. The skills will be very much useful for them living in the community, later on.
Besides his routine activity in assisting tutors, Pak Taqim also regularly meets the leaders and managers of Pondok Pesantren and PKBM to help them understand life skills activities which they should take more seriously, since life skills activities have not figrued much in Pondok Pesantren.
Pak Taqim’s efforts in assisting tutors and learners and also in approaching the leaders and managers of Pondok Pesantren and PKBM has paid off. Three Pondok Pesantren have introduced courses for sewing, embroidery and computer as mandatory activities for their santri. With these skills it is expected that those santri will get something that they can be depend upon. Well done, Pak Taqim!
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Sewing courses, one of the activities at PKBM and Pesantren, which Pak Taqim provides for young people to learn.
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