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. Story continued...

Training & Good Practices

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. Story continued...

New DBE 3 Program Focus

DBE 3 is working in 44 districts in six provinces. For the final two years of the project DBE3 will focus on implementing an extended program including in-depth whole school training for junior secondary schools (SMP and MTs) in 25 of these districts. A map of all the districts where DBE3 is working can be found on page 16.

These 25 “extension” districts have selected district facilitators to support the planned series of whole school training activities. There are three district facilitators for each of the core curriculum subjects: B. Indonesia, Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies. You can read more about the training of district facilitators inside. Story continued...

Greeting to everyone ! Hello. It is our pleasure to bring you the first edition of Inovasi Pendidikan, a newsletter published by DBE3 Jakarta. This is the newsletter where you can get information about DBE activities in the area of junior secondary education in Aceh, North Sumatra, West Java-Banten, Jakarta, Central Java, East Java and South Sulawesi.

As you can see in this first edition, there are sections with information from the provinces about our activities. There are also columns, profiles, and interviews. In this first edition we also would like to introduce you with our new Chief of Party (CoP) Stuart Weston. Story continued...

SEAMOLEC and DBE3 USAID are working in collaboration to conduct a series of workshops on e-learning.

The first workshop was a three-day workshop conducted at the SEAMOLEC building on the 18-20 of May 2009. The second workshop was conducted at Bandung between the 21st and 31st of July 2009. The objectives of the workshops were to develop common perceptions related to quality in e-learning, and to develop standards for production of quality e-learning, and included discussions about the Most Critical Challenges and Creative Pedagogical Strategies. Complete Story...