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)

PT Paragon Innovation and Technology (ParagonCorp) with Guru Belajar Foundation (YGB) held the Wardah Inspiring Teacher Onboarding (WIT) 2024 which is followed by 6000 teachers from all over the archipelago. Orientation held on Wednesday (12/09) This online program begins the learning process for teachers over the next four months in the WIT program 2024. Lina Wijayanti, alumnus WIT 2023 who is also a content creator on Instagram with followers 100 thousand more, present as a resource person to provide support to participants. He appreciated the WIT program which provides teacher scholarship programs to study. “There are many challenges as a teacher, This year is just the same as last year. The science is bound to change, We can't just rely on the knowledge we had during college, or own experience, that can't be,” said Lina. “Nah, Sir/Madam here already holds the key to the journey to get the treasure, the learning that we need as teachers but previously we couldn't get the knowledge in lectures. So congratulations once again to those of you who have been selected here from 18000 plus plus registrants. It's just a matter of how to maximize it,he continued. Read too: 22 Teachers and Volunteers from the United States Share Good Practices The treasure that Lina refers to is all the WIT learning sessions 2023 and also some additional classes. He admitted that he was surprised when there was an announcement of additional classes which he thought were interesting and that he really needed. Some of the classes Lina mentioned were energy management for teachers, building a community with parents, and facilitation strategies. “Here I feel like I've been slapped, because as a teacher I sometimes put aside my own feelings, family, child, colleague. And the psychology taught in this energy management class made me know what to do. With every surprise in this material there is always an AHA moment,said Lina. Lina also delivered, There are at least three positive things he got after joining WIT 2023, namely a change in mindset to become a teacher who supports students, get a wider connection which becomes the beginning of collaboration, and the opportunity to develop a protean career. Rizqy Rahmat Hani, chairman of the Independent Leaders Campus, WIT implementing unit 2024, explain, This program will be ongoing with four stages. The four stages are: (1) change himself, (2) change the class, (3) change class activities, and (4) impact on the surroundings. Each stage will support teachers to become inspirational figures for the education ecosystem. Therefore, at the first level, one of the materials is creating inspiring content after receiving material about being proud to be a teacher and training for independent learning teachers. “When friends are proud to be teachers, frequent reflection, which we believe will be shared with other friends, will be able to inspire, so it's not just for himself,"explained Rizqy. Read too: Entering the Even Semester More Prepared, Use Backwar Design “Before it impacts the ecosystem, must be able to change himself, proud of his profession, become empowered, then start empowering the class, new to the vast ecosystem,” concluded Rizqy, reiterating his emphasis on inspiring teachers. For your information, at the end of each WIT stage 2024 There will be an assessment to determine whether the participant passes to the next stage. From 6000 teachers who take part in onboarding will be screened 3000 teachers become official WIT participants 2024 and entitled to follow the first level. Furthermore, on the second level 2500 participant, third level 2000 participant, and the last level 1500 participant. (Yosi)