Festival Ready for Independent Curriculum: The Right Profile Project

Kampus Pemimpin Merdeka roll out Festival Siap Kurikulum Merdeka pada Jumat (17/11) afternoon online. The festival aims to expand the good practices of Curriculum Ready program participants, such as the application of profile projects, differentiated learning, and the use of teaching media.

From 324 batch participants 1-4, selected 12 teachers from various regions who have the opportunity to share their good practices. Among them Alia Yovica, State junior high school teacher 29 Sijunjung, and Dewi Handayani, State elementary school teacher 13 Sanggau.

Profile Project “Stop Bullying”, Tingkatkan Empati Murid

Pada projek sebelumnya, Alia and her fellow teachers still misunderstand the application of the profile project. The profile project that Alia held three months earlier still required students to produce a product. This has an impact on students, many say they are bored.

After following the Curriculum Ready program, Alia just found out the main purpose of the profile project, yakni menjadikan murid bagian dari problem solver atas masalah di sekitarnya. From that understanding, the result of the project is a product, not an obligation.

"We, the coordinator and facilitator sit together first. We agree on the flow of activities, namely the introductory stage, contextualization, action, reflection, and follow-up. According to what we learned in the Curriculum Ready program,"explained Alia.

They agreed, P5 learning every Tuesday to Saturday, every day 2 lesson hours. The first activity is to provide project outreach to students so that they understand why students need to do the project.

For ten weeks, the activities carried out are, analisis video bullying, mencurahkan bentuk-bentuk bullying yang pernah diterima, convey what you like and what you don't like in friendship, collaborate with social parties and the police to deepen knowledge, campaign anti bullying di sekolah, and finally creating a drama script.

“In our activities we often give people the freedom to choose according to their interests. For example, when creating and performing a drama script, students have the freedom to choose whether the play is about verbal bullying, physique, or relational,said Alia.

In the last session, Alia invited students to reflect on what they had learned and what they wanted to improve. Students stated that learning was fun because of the variety of activities. They also said that they became more aware of what actions were called bullying and determined to love his friends more.

Collaboration between Mapel to Introduce Sanggau Culture

Meanwhile, Dewi shared her experience of combining social studies and Indonesian subjects to introduce Sanggau culture.

At that time, The social studies material being discussed is about the culture of ASEAN countries. Meanwhile in Indonesian language lessons, Students are expected to have the competence to present conclusions verbally and in writing from the results of observations and interviews.

After inviting students to discuss, Dewi invited students to watch various Sanggau regional dances. The reason, from the results of the discussion, Many people don't know anything about the regional arts and culture in West Kalimantan.

“Only after that did I take them to Dekranasda, Regional National Crafts Council, then to the house of a Sanggau typical Kangkang embroidery craftsman. Students prepare questions for conducting interviews,"explained Dewi.

From the results of the interview, the student concluded, The best-selling souvenirs are key chains. They also agreed that they wanted to make a typical Sanggau key chain to be entrusted to Dekranasda.

Students discuss what kind of key chain they want to make. Dewi helped by showing videos of typical Sanggau handicrafts. Students agreed to choose key chains made from leaves, some are dried banana leaves, fern leaves, jackfruit leaves, and rambutan leaves.

“We then went to the grocery store together. Students learn to communicate with sellers. Each student gets a role, for example, someone is in charge of recording production, count material items, and others,explained the class teacher 6 That.

Dewi revealed, This learning makes students more enthusiastic about going to school. Students also learn to give and develop ideas. Besides that, students become more sensitive, help each other.

"I also appreciate it when after they finish they clean and tidy up the equipment themselves without any orders from me,” concluded Dewi. (Yosi)