December 2024

Commemorating World Teachers' Day, SMBC Indonesia collaborates with the Guru Belajar Foundation (GBF) and the Nusantara Learning Teacher Community held a workshop "Innovative Learning and Strong Financial Management" on Saturday (5/10) in Jakarta and Sunday (6/10) in Yogyakarta and Makassar. This workshop is part of the Financially Smart Creative Teacher bootcamp (GKCF) which has been going online for a month. In an online session, Participants learn to manage finances and create teaching media for students using design thinking principles. Meanwhile at the workshop, Participants were challenged to test prototypes of teaching media related to financial literacy. Teaching media is not intended for use by students but by fellow teachers. “This study scholarship is Bank BTPN's commitment to be a friend of teachers. We care about education and we believe that the spearhead of educational progress is teachers and we want to be with you,” said Dody Safrizal, Area Business Leader Pension Business & Area Head Jakarta in his speech. The workshop topic was born out of Bank BTPN and YGB's concerns regarding teachers' difficulties in managing personal finances. The low average income of teachers encourages them to develop a protean career so that they have various sources of income. However, This is not accompanied by financial management skills. Read too: Creating Meaningful Teaching Media Can Use Artificial Intelligence "When we opened registration for this scholarship, his enthusiasm was so extraordinary that 9000 more registrants. We are amazed at the enthusiasm for learning, Mr/Mrs teacher. I hope that those of you who have the opportunity to study here will pass on your knowledge to other teachers who have not had the opportunity," said Dody. Trial of Financial Literacy Teaching Media In trial, Participants were divided into small groups to introduce the financial literacy teaching media they had designed, which is then assessed by fellow group members. Intan Irawati, participants from MAN 15 Jakarta, expressed his feelings of gratitude because he can now create more meaningful teaching media. He narrated, after attending the GKCF online session, he has started creating teaching media with design thinking for his students. “Changes have occurred in my students, they are more enthusiastic about studying physics. The students were initially more silent, I'm starting to have the courage to express my opinion. I also feel like I have become closer to the students, Students no longer hesitate to raise difficulties," said Intan. Read too: Teaching Media Training: 3 Important Things When Designing a Prototype "Now I am challenged to create teaching media that can help fellow teachers. I hope that the media I create is useful and highly effective so that it can help improve the ability to manage finances for its users,he continued. He recounted the experience of his friend who once came crying, Turns out it was because it was entangled in pinjol. Intan doesn't want this to happen again to the people around her, so he was very enthusiastic when he received a challenge from the GKCF program. After trial, there was a learning session on creating content led by Ria Farrabila, teacher content creator whose teaching videos often go viral on Instagram. This session invites participants to always share good practices, including the practice of creating teaching media on social media. The aim is to inspire other teachers who have not had the opportunity to become GKCF scholarship recipients. (Yosi)

Anggayudha Ananda Rasa, or familiarly called Aye, Teacher Learning Foundation trainers returned to be speakers in learning sessions regarding teaching media. This session was held on Monday (9/9) online via Zoom and followed 800 participants in the “Financially Smart Creative Teacher” bootcamp scholarship program. After explaining the design thinking process for creating teaching media at the previous meeting, This time Aye explains in more depth the steps for designing a prototype. A teaching media prototype is an initial model of a teaching media that is created to be tested before there is a final version. Prototypes are generally made to test the functions or features of teaching media so that if there are things that are not suitable, can still be repaired. “There are three important things to pay attention to when designing a prototype, namely determining goals, determine how to get the data, and determine how to conclude the prototype results,” explained Aye. Read too: Making Meaningful Teaching Media Can Use Artificial Intelligence First, after determining the goal, teachers or instructional media makers need to explain what the indicators are of achieving these goals. “Nah, Here we also need to have a hypothesis or temporary guess,” explained Aye. “A good hypothesis is a hypothesis that can be tested, appropriate, and specific. For example, not 'I believe that students will like this water cycle board game', but rather 'I believe more than 50% Students will love this game because the easy way to play helps them learn the water cycle material.', it's clearer and makes it easier for us to create indicators, right??,” Aye continued. He also confirmed, Don't get caught up in forming difficult hypotheses, but rather focuses on the purpose of creating teaching media. If the goal is that students understand the material, then make sure from the hypothesis to the conclusion it is in that direction. Also read: Guru Belajar Foundation Launches Financial Smart Program Then to collect data, Aye gave an example from his experience. Data can be collected from surveys of students, direct observation when students use teaching media, provide assessments to students, to reflection. Then the teaching media developer can conclude the results of the prototype, anything that needs to be improved or is already good. "On the way to make teaching media, in this case the prototype, You need to keep remembering that good teaching media is not physically good, but which is useful for students, aimed at students. So the basic question is whether the teaching media is appropriate to students' learning needs?,” closed Aye. (Yosi)