November 2024

Kampus Pemimpin Merdeka (MOE) Collaborated with Peace Corps (United States Government Independent Agency which sent volunteers to work in various countries), held an independent curriculum festival (FKM) at the Yello Hotel Surabaya on Monday (26/08). This activity is a learning celebration for 22 English teacher and volunteer Peace Corps who for two months received assistance from KPM. Online, Teacher from East Java, West Java, and East Nusa Tenggara received training in the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum. "FKM is aimed at celebrating the learning process of participants, celebrate it by sharing good practices teaching them. So what they learned with us and they have tried to apply can also be an inspiration for other teachers out there,”Explained Rizqy Rahmat Hani, chief of the MoE. Although held luring in Surabaya, FKM participants come from various regions. The reason, KPM and Peace Corps provide live streaming whose participants are stable in numbers 250. "Thank you for Peace Corps who want to be involved in improving the quality of Indonesian education. I am very happy to hear the good practice of teachers and volunteers today. Learning English which is not only fun but also meaningful,"Said Rizqy, read too: Learning Teacher Competency Assessment: Teachers need the right training and Roman, Peace Corps Indonesia Program Manager explained, This project wants to support the current priority of the Indonesian government's education. Therefore, The teachers are given assistance to implement a Student Center and P5, found in the Independent Curriculum. "We hope this program can have an impact on teachers and students to remote areas," he said. "Sometimes the teacher has difficulty translating the concepts in the Merdeka curriculum, what is practical contextual, which is suitable for the students, Therefore this program exists,he continued. In total there are eleven good practices distributed, Some tell her experience teaching with games, instructional Media, to various technologies on the internet. One of them is good practice from Sefti MTs Guru in Kediri with Volunteer Peace Corps with Sarah, who distributed card learning media called The Rising Cards. Read too: Festival Ready for Independent Curriculum: The right profile project The Rising Cards is a card that can help students check their own learning progress. Every meeting, Students get questions and who succeed in answering will get a star to be attached to the card. Students who have ten stars can not answer anymore but rather give questions to other friends. This method is expected to cause feelings of wanting to help between students. (Yosi)

Campus of Merdeka Leaders held the Merdeka Islamic Boarding School Festival on Monday (29/01) online. Seven Teachers of the Nurul Chotib Al Qodiri Islamic Boarding School Foundation Jember shared good practices at the event. One of them is Farij Qusayyi who tells his experience using performance -based assessment while teaching mathematics. He is a math teacher at the junior high school level. As the name implies, Performance -based assessment allows students to show competency based on their performance. Thus, The teacher will more easily judge the extent to which students understand a concept. Farij decided to use this assessment so that he could not only assess student learning outcomes but also the process. Therefore, This assessment also avoids the possibility of students cheating on their friend's work. Read too: Independent Curriculum Festival: 22 Teachers and volunteers from the US shared good practices "when I first heard about performance -based assessment, There are immediately many questions arise. The difficulty is that there are still a few concrete examples of applications on the internet. Therefore, I am currently sharing here, so that my practice can be one of the references. Mr/Mrs the teacher does not need difficulties like me before in the beginning,“Kata Farij. Performance -Based Assessment Material Farij Numbers first tried performance -based assessment for class 8 In the number of number patterns. He invites students to make a number pattern booklet. The booklet must at least have a title, Illustration of number patterns, NUMBER DESCRIPTION, and concept explanation. "To carry out visualization, Students are free to use the materials around them. Some use used cardboard, Wrap the liquid soap, foliage, sapu people, straw, and many others,”Explained Farij. Before the student starts making a booklet, Farij explained his assessment criteria, namely creativity, illustration quality, draft, and presentation. After making a booklet and making a presentation, Students do reflection. Read too: Independent Curriculum Festival: Practice both Kindergarten Teachers to Vocational School "Students tell stories, the most challenging is his presentation because of shame. Here I know what is lacking from students and how I help in the future so that the competence continues to rise,“Kata Farij. Students also express their pleasure in learning mathematics that is not monotonous. When usually they just do questions, with performance -based assessments they undergo other activities such as cutting and sticking. "They are happy because they are challenged to be creative. Not just thinking about the numbers. Mathematics is not scary for students. For me, I came to know how far they understood the concept of number patterns,"Close Farij. (Yosi)

Kampus Pemimpin Merdeka (MOE) back to hold the Merdeka Curriculum Festival on Tuesday (23/01) online and attended 596 participant. This activity was held to answer the concerns of many teachers regarding the implementation of the Independent Curriculum. The teacher often follows training but only gets theoretical material so it is difficult to imagine its implementation. This makes them confused about whether what they do in class is in accordance with the essence of the Independent Curriculum. Therefore, twenty teachers who are alumni of the Curriculum Ready program share good learning and leadership practices. They come from different teaching levels and regions. Two of them are Murtiningsih, Al Muslim Kindergarten teacher Waru Sidoarjo, East Java, and Hotdiana Nababan, State High School teacher 2 Northern region, Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra. Read too: Lisna Nurjanah: Century Teacher 21 Not only fluent in the ideas and critical actions of kindergarten students with project thinking and critical actions must be built early. This is what encourages Murtiningsih to always invite his students to be involved in learning as a whole even though they are still in kindergarten. One of his experiences was when implementing project-based learning. Murtiningsih started by giving several trigger questions to the students. The questions asked invite students to pay attention to the school environment. Various comments appeared and most of them said the same thing, namely about the school yard being dirty. At that time, The condition of the Al Muslim Kindergarten yard is that there are lots of dry leaves scattered around. “I keep asking questions to get children to think. Like, What can we do with this leaf waste?? The child's chatter was beyond my expectations, very varied. Some say it's possible to learn, made a hat, Some say their parents once told them that the leaves could be used as fertilizer,” said Murtiningsih. Then he invited students to watch a video with the theme of earth and waste. After that, give the task to discuss further with the parents at home. When we return to school, students make mind map ideas for utilizing dry leaf waste. There are some students who cannot write yet, then Murtiningsih will help him. "Children's actions are varied and they are all the result of their own ideas, not because of orders from me or his parents. Their ideas after joint discussion. There are those who carry out environmental cleanliness campaigns, make compost and then sell the fertilizer to teachers and parents, and others, all kinds of things,he explained. Build student characters with meaningful feedback while Hotdiana, telling stories about their experiences provides meaningful feedback that can build students' good character. Previously, he is worried because students like to cheat. He tried to trace why student actions like this continued to occur, even though students have often been reprimanded. “It turns out that students' orientation is still on grades. To achieve high scores, Students will justify various methods, including copying his friend's assignments. This is also because the previous assessment culture was value oriented,” he said. The feedback given is in the form of what is good about the student's work and what parts can be improved. However, Change certainly doesn't happen immediately. Initially, students still don't care and mostly ignore the feedback given. Read too: Cikal Teachers Campus Webinar, P5 Success Guide Nevertheless, Hotdiana still keeps doing it, but with additional strategies: When providing feedback, students will be asked to read in front of them. Next, students are asked questions, "Is there anything that is not understood and wants to be asked from the feedback?"Continue to convey to students that value is not everything, but rather increase competence at the end of the semester, students will get a certificate. The certificate is related to changes in a student's attitude and character during one semester, not academic achievement. Slowly, there is a change in Hotdiana's student. Students are getting used to reading feedback and responding to it. Some even wait for feedback when submitting assignments. “Emotionally it also became close to me. Then students become more independent, aka they don't cheat because they already know, oh I'm missing here, so whatever needs to be done. Although yes, there are still people who cheat, but reduced. The important thing is that I am consistent because students' character and culture need time to change,” concluded Hotdiana. (Yosi)