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View all search resultsNTB to empower teachers in remote areas
The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) administration has started inventorying teachers working in remote regions as part of preparations to empower them in 2011, according to an official with the provincial Education, Youth and Sport Affairs Agency
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he West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) administration has started inventorying teachers working in remote regions as part of preparations to empower them in 2011, according to an official with the provincial Education, Youth and Sport Affairs Agency.
"The administration will empower them and give them more attention," head of the agency, Lalu Syafi'i, said after opening an exhibition on teachers' innovation held in the provincial capital, Mataram, recently.
At least 2,500 teachers, according to Lalu, were currently posted at 135 elementary and junior high schools in NTB's remote regions, including 105 of the province's 287 small islands.
"We call on all parties that have the same concern on the fate of these teachers to join hands to help them, especially those working for privately run schools," Lalu said.
NTB, Lalu said, had 50,000 teachers in elementary up to senior high schools, 30,000 of who are working in privately run schools and Islamic boarding schools.
Around 150 teachers and principals have graduated from training this year, held by Putera Sampoerna Foundation, with the financial support of the Deutsche Bank.
The program, conducted since last year, offers a comprehensive training module designed to improve the teachers' skills in pedagogic and class management.
"We hope the 150 teachers can transfer their skills to others," Lalu said.
Seventeen state-run junior high schools in NTB - 14 in Mataram City and three in West Lombok regency - have been included in the teacher-development program that has been operating since May 2009.
One is SMPN 1 Lembar, West Lombok. The school now is capable of developing a compost production system that earned them the Adiwiyata Award.
"We make the learning method more fun. We provide more practices the students can enjoy while learning," a teacher of the school, Helmiyati, told The Jakarta Post on the sidelines of the exhibition.
Sampoerna School of Education director Wendy Armunando said the same program was also conducted in almost every region in the country, including Aceh and Yogyakarta, involving more than 44,000 teachers.
"Through the program, we introduce the teachers to project-based learning and collaborative learning methods that enable their students to learn in the context of today," he said.
