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After Training Supervisor's Support School's

FOLLOWING the BTL training, school supervisor's in Central Java extension district's (Kudus, Boyolali, Grobogan, Karanganyar, and Purworejo) implemented the knowledge they gained from the training, in the partner schools. Furthermore they took the initiative also to mentor dissemination school's. "BTL is suitable for all schools, therefore we agreed to support its implementation in all the schools that we supervise," said Drs. Sunarto, M.Pd, School Supervisor Coordinator for Boyolali District.

However, the implementation itself is not without challenge's. One of them comes from newly appointed school principa's, who are not familiar with BTL. To overcome that challenge, DBE3 Central Java will give training to all dissemination school's and newly appointed principal's to introduce BTL, using a modified version of the supervisor module. It is hoped that this initiative will help supervisor's in implementing BTL not just in the partner school's.

What Did The Training Material Include?

THE FOLLOWING are material's in the BTL Package for school supervisor's:

The Relevance of DBE3 Program's to the Ministerial Regulation No. 41/2007 on Learning Process Standard's
This unit discusses the extent of DBE3 Program relevance to the regulation

Reflective Journal
This unit introduces participant's to writing a reflective journal, where teacher's write reflective notes on their teaching.

Curriculum Study
Participant's learn how to map the contents of the curriculum (subject competencies), cluster them and link them up into a theme so that learning is efficient and contextual. Skills to design learning ideas are also reinforced in this unit.

High Level Questions and Worksheets
Participants are trained to formulate high level questions and to design worksheets using high level questions.

Cooperative Learning
Participant's learn how to make all group member's active during group work.

Assessment
To objectively assess student's work, participants are introduced to the use of assessment rubrics.

School Visit
'Seeing is believing' is the message that we are trying to communicate through the school visit activities. Participants visit schools that have been implementing DBE3 programs. Participants are expected to see how indicator's of program implementation are being accomplished in school's.

Mentoring
Trained teacher's need assistance from school supervisor's so they are confident enough to implement the results of training in school's. This unit teaches participant's how they can do mentoring and motivate teachers to keep on making changes.

Promoting Sustainable Change
This unit introduces participant's to ways to motivate teacher's and principal's to make lasting changes in school's.

 Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education

Edition 10 / May 2011