SMPN 33 Makassar Delivering a Quality Education
Successfully Implementing ‘Moving Class’
Lessons are interesting and challenging
SMPN 33 Makassar is one of the schools that has recently joined the DBE3 program. Some of the teachers were trained by DBE3 in June 2009 and the rest of the teachers of all subjects (not just those tested in the national examination) were trained in August. This latter training was funded by the school itself.
The school has started implementing a system of ‘moving class’. There are special classrooms for each subject, students move class between lessons and the teachers stay in their subject classrooms. As a result the teachers can create a classroom environment suited to their subject.
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Since joining DBE3 they have already implemented lots of the innovations associated with contextual teaching and learning (CTL). Students work cooperatively in every class and use a variety of learning media. Tasks given to the students generally challenge them to think and do.
Their written work is generally of good quality and reflects their own thinking. A number of photographs which reflect the situation in the school are shown here.
Bpk Muchtar, a social studies teacher is monitoring his students, while they talk about the causes and consequences of the earthquake in Padang. They have to find information from a number of sources including books and newspapers.
This is an example of a student’s writing about the earthquake in Padang, which was displayed on the classroom wall.
This science class is taking place in the laboratory. The students are enthusiastically researching the changes that occur, when certain materials are heated. The materials include water and wax.
- These students are drawing organs of the body in a biology lesson.
Ibu Hasmawati (left) a DBE3 district facilitator for social studies, who is also a teacher at SMPN 33 Makassar, regularly helps and supports other social studies teachers. Ibu Rosmawati (right), a social studies teacher whom she has assisted, is seen standing with her grade 7 students showing the work they have done on the essential needs for life.
Since all the teachers have been trained, all the classrooms are interesting and attractive and not only the classrooms of the core curriculum subjects. There is also a beautiful display of students’ work in the handicraft classroom. One advantage of the system are moving class is that it makes it easy to create displays like this.
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Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education
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Edition 04/November 2009
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