No.4
November 2009

Inovasi Pendidikan
Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education

DBE3 Fulfilling the President’s Wishes

At the opening of a recent national convention in Jakarta the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said:

“I ask the Minister of National Education to change current teaching and learning methodologies. From the kindergarten the secondary school it’s not just the teachers who should be active but they have to be able to make the students active.’ (Kompas, 30 October 2009).

Since 2005 DDE 3 has been organizing training for teachers, school principals and supervisors from junior secondary schools in six provinces focused on developing lessons that encourage students to be more active in the learning processes. What DBE3 is doing is right in line with the wishes of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Examples of active learning developed under the DBE3 program can be seen in this edition. You can read news from a number of schools including SMPN 8 Bogor, SMPN 33 Makassar and MTsN Binjai.

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New Training Package for Partner Schools

A new training package has been prepared to be used with the DBE3 partner schools. The new training package addresses a number of important issues related to teaching.

These are making worksheets that challenge students to think, developing low cost learning media for use by the students and assessing students’ work using a rubric.

A team of DBE3 national facilitators was trained to use the new package from 5 to 9 October in Medan. The team was chosen from the six DBE partner provinces.

They will in turn train facilitators from the 25 DBE3 partner districts, which are implementing the whole school training program in order to raise the quality and relevance of teaching.

Training was very participative. As usual, the training finished with practical teaching in schools. Groups of two or three participants designed and implemented lessons which took into account what they had learned about worksheets, the use of media and assessment.

School Principals Encouraging Change in Schools

If we want to achieve change in schools, the role of the school principal is crucial. During the national facilitator training in Medan two school principals who have successfully changed their schools were invited to make presentations.

Drs. H. Adi Mutia, M.Pd, the principal of SMPN 2 Lubuk Pakam, Deli Serdang uses a collegial approach and does clinical supervision of his teachers every term. Most importantly, he not only asks his teachers to use innovative methods in class; he practices them himself. As he says, “The school principal must give a good example.”

Drs. Yusran Adnin, MA, the principal of MTsN Binjai normally arrives in school 20 minutes before lessons begin and goes round the school monitoring activities. He encourages his teachers by saying things such as, “…. I’m sure you can do it !!” and praises the work teachers display with words such as, “… You have done an excellent job…!!!”

You can read more about the training inside including:
- What is in the BTL3 training? (page 2)
- Practical Teaching at MTsN Binjai (page 3)
- The Art of School Principal Leadership (page 4)
- Photographs of the team national facilitators from each province (page 20)