Promosi Kinerja Guru Sekolah Dasar Islam Ummu Aiman Lawang melalui Penggunaan Supervisi Klinis

AbstrakKualitas pengajaran dan instruksi sangat diperlukan bagi keberhasilan pembelajaran di sekolah. Supervisi di sekolah bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kinerja pengajaran dan instruksi guru. Supervisi sebagai tulang punggung yang menentukan efektivitas sebuah sekolah. Supervisi yang baik melibatkan kegiatan bantuan untuk guru secara langsung dan menginformasikan tentang apa yang harus dilakukan atau telah dilakukan. Supervisi belajar-mengajar di kelas berusaha membantu guru untuk mengajar secara efektif belum tercapai. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan supervisi klinis ini yaitu 1) konferensi perencanaan; 2) observasi kelas; 3) konferensi umpan balik; 4) perencanaan evaluasi. Hasil kegiatan menunjukkan bahwa 1) konferensi perencanaan berhasil memberikan penjelasan kepada pihak sekolah dan guru terkait konsep kegiatan yang akan dilakukan; 2) observasi kelas dilakukan selama aktivitas mengajar yang meliputi pembukaan, main activity, manajemen kelas, dan aktivitas lainnya; 3) konferensi umpan baik dapat memberikan masukan bagi guru terkait kekurangan atau kelemahan yang perlu diperbaiki dalam proses mengajarnya; 4) rancangan evaluasi dapat memformulasi rancangan program khusus untuk guru berdasarkan hasil konferensi umpan balik. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa adanya supervisi klinis sangat berguna dalam mempromosikan kinerja guru.Kata Kunci: Kinerja Guru, Guru Sekolah Dasar, Supervisi Klinis AbstractThe quality of teaching and instruction is indispensable for successful learning in schools. Supervision in schools aims to improve teaching performance and teacher instruction. Supervision is the backbone that determines the effectiveness of a school. Good supervision involves directly assisting teachers and informing them of what needs to be done or has been done. Supervision of teaching and learning in the classroom trying to help teachers to teach effectively has not been achieved. The methods used in this clinical supervision activity are 1) planning conference; 2) class observation; 3) feedback conference; 4) evaluation planning. The results of the activities showed that 1) the planning conference was successful in providing explanations to the school and teachers regarding the concept of the activities to be carried out; 2) class observations are carried out during teaching activities which include opening, main activity, class management, and other activities; 3) feedback conferences can provide input for teachers regarding deficiencies or weaknesses that need to be improved in the teaching process; 4) the evaluation design can formulate a special program design for teachers based on the results of the feedback conference. Thus, it can be concluded that clinical supervision is very useful in promoting teacher performance.Key Word: Clinical Supervision, Elementary School Teacher, Teacher Performance.

Pre-service teachers' acquisition of scientific knowledge and scientific skills through inquiry-based laboratory activity

PurposeScientific inquiry is a leading methodology that promotes science process skills to acquire scientific knowledge. There is evidence that primary school teachers have difficulties introducing inquiry-based activities in their classrooms. Hence, adequate teacher instruction in inquiry methodology is important to apply inquiry-based activities in school science lessons. This work aims to analyse if pre-service teachers succeeded in developing scientific knowledge and scientific skills through the application of an inquiry laboratory activity.Design/methodology/approachThis article is presented as a case study developed in a group of 82 pre-service teachers. This research methodology involved qualitative and quantitative data.FindingsThe results demonstrate that pre-service teachers could improve their scientific skills and knowledge through inquiry-based laboratory activity.Originality/valueThe present study assesses not only the scientific knowledge but also if students can acquire scientific skills by doing the inquiry laboratory activity and if these skills are related to low-order cognitive skills or high-order cognitive skills.

Essential Features and Critical Issues With Educational Chatbots

Conversational agents, also known as chatbots, are automated systems for engaging in two-way dialogue with human users. These systems have existed in one form or another for at least 60 years but have recently demonstrated significant potential with advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. The use of conversational agents or chatbots for education can potentially reduce costs and supplement teacher instruction in transformative ways for formal learning. This chapter examines the design and status of chatbots and conversational agents for educational purposes. Common design functions and goals of educational chatbots are described, along with current practical applications of chatbots for educational purposes. Finally, this chapter considers issues about pedagogical commitments, ethics, and equity to suggest future work in the field.

Continuity and Discontinuity in Basic Education Learning: Causality Isolation Policy in Avoiding the Spread of COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak is a non-natural disaster and has an impact on learning continuity. This study aimed to find the reality of the continuity/discontinuity of learning of primary education students in East Lombok during student isolation in the prevention of COVID-19. Data obtained through surveys and interviews with 198 respondents representing school principals, teachers, students, parents, and the community. According to the Bayesian Approach to Learning Causal Networks, the data were analyzed descriptively through frequency distribution and causal analysis. It was found that 57.07 % of respondents claimed they did not know the purpose of the isolation policy, so it was not explained. Exactly 54.76 % of respondents admitted to isolation as a holiday, 54 % of respondents admitted to playing to their heart's content during the isolation period, 88.77 % of respondents admitted that this policy was not coordinated, and 100 % of respondents admitted that they did not maximize the function of online learning. The contextual condition of this isolation period is a causal event between a lack of understanding of the policy intent or P (A), causing unclear instructions, or P (B). Unclear teacher instruction or P (B) causes students not to study at home during isolation, or learning discontinuity occurs, with code P (C). Lack of understanding of the intent of the isolation policy, or P (A) causes this policy not to be coordinated with interested parties. Due to unclear instructions, the utilization of online learning, or P (E) is not optimal. The study results are urgent and have implications for the policy of learning from home as well as the coordination pattern of educational stakeholders in the COVID-19 phase.

TEACHER’S LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY IN MANAGING ONLINE INSTRUCTION DURING THE PANDEMIC DISRUPTION IN INDONESIA

Since COVID-19 shocked the world, all business activities experienced an enormous impact, including in the field of education. UNESCO advised the world to ease the pandemic's impact on world education continuity with distance learning policies to overcome this disruption. Since then, pandemic affected countries experienced difficulties implementing that distance learning to respond to the policy. In this regard, this paper was carried out to identify additional instructional leadership competencies for teachers in managing learning in a pandemic. Evidence from the study of education shows that learning in disruption time is closely related to teachers' management in innovating such high technological virtual learning. To find answers, we conducted preliminary readings of the relevant literature. Next, we analyzed that information qualitatively by exploring what teacher instruction management is applicable during the pandemic. Then, we found that additional teaching leadership competencies can be adopted to support students learning in virtual approaches such as reflective opportunities, increasing truth among teachers and students, keeping curiosity habits, building productive communication, initiative habit, and more listening to understand others. Those additional teaching leadership competencies are useful to any party interested in supporting students learning in the pandemic disruption.

System (In)Coherence: Quantifying the Alignment of Primary Education Curriculum Standards, Examinations, and Instruction in Two East African Countries

Improvements in instructional coherence have been shown to have large impacts on student learning, yet analysis of such coherence, especially in developing countries and at a systems level, is rare. We use an established methodology, the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC), and apply it to a developing country context to systematically analyze and quantify the content and coherence of the primary curriculum standards, national examinations, and actual teaching delivered in the classroom in Uganda and Tanzania. We find high levels of incoherence across all three instructional components. In Uganda, for example, only four of the fourteen topics in the English curriculum standards appear on the primary leaving exam, and two of the highest-priority topics in the standards are completely omitted from the exams. In Tanzania, only three of fourteen English topics are covered on the exam, and all are assessed at the “memorization” level. Rather than aligning with either the curriculum standards or exams, teachers’ classroom instruction is poorly aligned with both. Teachers tend to cover broad swathes of content and levels of cognitive demand, unrelated to the structure of either the curriculum standards or exams. An exception is Uganda mathematics, for which standards, exams, and teacher instruction are all well aligned. By shedding light on alignment deficits in the two countries, these results draw attention to a policy area that has previously attracted little (if any) attention in many developing countries’ education policy reform efforts. In addition to providing empirical results for Uganda and Tanzania, this study provides a proof-of-concept for the use of the SEC methodology as a diagnostic tool in developing countries, helping education systems identify areas of instructional (in)coherence and informing efforts to improve coherence for learning.

The Implementation of Kid’s Athletics as an Interactive Audio Visual Learning Media

This study was aimed at designing, creating, and developing an interactive audio visual learning media. This study was also aimed at examining the effectiveness of the implementation of the kid’s athletics interactive audio visual learning media on the student learning achievement. This research used a Research and Development method. The subjects of the study were 30 elementary students. The research design was the product development model. The data were analyzed by using a percentage calculation of the validation results. The validators were the expert in media and the expert in material. The result of the data analysis showed that the use of interactive audiovisual media kid’s athletics had been assessed as valid by the validators. The validity score was 85,71% from the media expert and 91,67% from the material expert. Therefore, the product was categorized as very good, which means it is applicable to use. The results of teacher instruction observation on using the kid’s athletics interactive audio visual media were 94,79% for the Kanga Escape material, 88,54% for Frog Jump material, 92, 70% for Turbo Throwing material, and 91,66 for Formula 1 material.