No.3
August 2009

Inovasi Pendidikan
Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education

A School to Visit!

If you want to see examples of good school management and good teaching, you need to visit schools. One school to visit is SMPN 2 Lubuk Pakam, Deli Serdang, North Sumatera. This school has been involved in the DBE program for three years. You can see how the school’s involvement in DBE programs has had a visible impact on the management and the teaching and learning. You can find more information about this school on page 3.

DBE3 Website

DBE3 has its own website at, www.inovasipendidikan.net, where you can find all the information in this newsletter and much more. You will also soon also be able to enter your own comments on the website

DBE Good Practices Workshops

Entering the fifth year of its program, DBE organized a workshop on the dissemination of good practices. The workshop events took place in each of the DBE provinces: North Sumatera, West Java, Banten, Central Java, East Java and South Sulawesi. The events involved all three components of DBE (DBE1, DBE2 and DBE3), local partners and education personnel and were intended to show the results of DBE programs and activities which have been implemented together with a variety of stakeholders in the DBE partner provinces and districts.

By demonstrating the positive results of the programs in the workshop, it is hoped that the stakeholders in the provinces and districts will continue to implement and spread the programs after DBE program has finished.

In addition to presentations from the DBE project teams, education practitioners including principals, teachers and facilitators talked about their experiences of working with DBE. The presentations by these practitioners aimed to give a comprehensive and detailed explanation of the DBE program to the workshop participants, who included staff from the provincial and district Education and Religious Affairs Offices, representatives from universities and other local partners.

There were also exhibitions of DBE materials, students’ work and the results of the community-based organizations supported by DBE. On the last day of the workshop in each province, participants were given a chance to visit partner schools during which they had the opportunity to watch lessons taking place. The participants also had the opportunity to talk to the principals, teachers and school committee members.