Kampus Pemimpin Merdeka (MOE) held again Independent Curriculum Festival on Tuesday (23/01) regularly daring and attended 596 participant. This activity was held to answer the concerns of many teachers regarding the implementation of the Independent Curriculum.
Teachers often follow suit training but only received 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.
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Explore Kindergarten Students' Critical Ideas and Actions with Projects
Critical thinking and action must be developed from an early age. 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 using 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 Character with Meaningful Feedback
Meanwhile 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.
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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 you don't understand and want to ask? feedback the?”
- Continuously convey to students that grades are not everything, but rather increasing 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)
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