Teacher Workshops for English teachers in AIBEP schools in Bali and Madura
Kang Guru Indonesia is working with English language teachers in AIBEP schools to see what they need in the way of training to teach English. There will be 2000 schools soon built by the Australia Indonesia Basic Education program and if KGI can help just afew of these schools and their staff then we are happy. The first such workshop was held in Mataram in 2009.
AIBEP BALI
On Tuesday the 2nd March KGI gave a special workshop for AIBEP teachers here in Bali. So there was no traveling involved for this workshop as it was held at the IALF, Bali. Around 20 teachers joined in the day’s activities. After gathering some data about the teachers and their schools they completed some activities about planning a listening lesson. Then after the break they looked at KGI Listen and Learn packages and identified different types of activities. In small groups they chose one type of activity and they all planned a listening lesson around the same text. It was interesting to see the different styles of the teachers coming through. At the end of the workshop we played some games which the teachers could take back to the classrooms with them and play with their students.
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What about those 2000 new AIBEP schools?
The latest update on the 2000 AIBEP schools?
It is expected that all schools will be completed in the first half of 2010, creating about 330,000 new junior secondary school places for 13-15 year olds.
All 2,000 AIBEP schools will be operational for the new school year 2010.
Isn’t this fantastic news! Australia and Indonesia Partnership (AIP) through AIBEP are also focussing on education quality and governance by supporting Indonesia’s implementation of its national education reform priorities. These include strategies to improve teacher and curriculum quality, school-based management and improving the equitable distribution of school funding. AIP also includes activities to ensure greater equity for girls and boys in accessing and participating in all aspects of the education system with a focus on poor, remote areas.
Hang on a minute - what is AIBEP again?
AIBEP stands for the Australia Indonesia Basic Education Program. |
AIBEP Madura
On Thursday 11th of March I flew to Surabaya in the evening. I caught up with KGI Champion Suryadi who had been working in Malang. He was going to join me at the AIBEP workshop in Madura the next day. Next mornig Lan the ELTIS driver picked up Mila from AusAID, Jakarta then picked up Suryadi and myself and all the boxes! We crossed to Madura by the new Suramadu bridge. It’s very impressive. You leave the busy city centre of Surabaya and enter the bridge – at the other side you arrive in rice fields! What a difference! The roadside is lined for about a kilometer on the Madura side with stalls selling food and drinks, Madura souvenirs and oleh oleh and even pink teddy bears. Apparantly it is quite a busy place at the weekends. However it was only just 7 am when we passed so it was still quite quiet. We drove to the new AIBEP school PP Darul Munir which was near the border between Bankelan and Pemekasan. The PP was down a narrow gang and we missed it first time, but after a phone call to the school and they told us to turn down the gang with the red flags we found it quite easily. Ogi, at KGI never likes to be late and as she plans our schedules sometimes we find ourselves arriving early – as we did this morning! None of the participant s had arrived as it was only 7:45 and the workshop wasn’t due to begin till 9:00. But that was okay – we looked around the brightly coloured school and talked to the English teacher, Pak Agus. The very young headteacher – Pak Agus told us the school opened with its first intake of students on July 2009. They have 55 students- 51 are boys and only 4 girls! He told us it was hard to encourage girls to come to school because here in the village they often get married at 15 and don’t see the point of going to school.
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KGI Champions Pak Suryadi interviewing AIBEP
teachers for KGI - well done Suryadi! |
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The participant arrived and we began the workshop about 9:15 – some of them were having trouble locating the school too! The workshop was held in the science lab and Pak Hendra found us some fans as it was rather hot. I decided to follow the same workshop as the teachers in Bali had done – only to find out the level of English of most of these teachers was much lower than the Bali teachers. Only about 50% of them had had formal English training. So I adapted the workshop and we worked slowly through the activities. We didn’t get as much done as in the Bali workshop but I’m sure the teachers went home with some new ideas for teaching listening in their classrooms. There was plenty of food and snacks – the local ladies had cooked a wonderful buffet lunch for us all, and we had Madurese snack in the morning and at the end of the workshop. During lunchtime Suryadi had interviewed some of the teachers about the material they use in their classrooms. Mila had watched carefully and taken lots of notes. At 4:30 after lots of photos we climbed back in the car and crossed the bridge one more time and returned to Surabaya.
The Sumba AIBEP Teacher Workshops will be held in mid-April, 2010.
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