School: General Information and Academic Administration

January 24, 2018 | Wednesday

This is it! This is the start of my work. I met again my cooperating teacher - Ibu Rosminta and I noticed that day that she doesn’t know how to speak in English, it will be difficult for the two of us to communicate. So, in case we want to talk with each other, we have an interpreter and one of that is Ibu Maderisita, an english teacher and she served as my human google translator.

With Ibu Maderisita, we walked around the school and she showed to me all the facilities, the faculties, the achievements, and the environment of the school.

I finally got the chance to know the school information through her and through my observation and now, I'm finally taking the time to sit down and immortalize the experiences I had in that school through this platform.

School Profile:

SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak was established on June 1, 1950 which is the first Junior High School in Pontianak City. It is located at Jenderal Urip Sumoharjo Street, Central Village, Pontianak Kota District, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan Province. The building of SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak which consists of 3 floors. The first floor is intended for offices, library, laboratories, media room, musolla, and canteen. While the classrooms are located on the second and third floor. The socioeconomic status of the students' family vary greatly in the level of their educational attainment. The school is equipped with good facilities which can cater students' diverse needs. This includes 27 classrooms, 2 computer laboratories with internet connection, 2 science laboratories, language laboratories, media room, library equipped with computer and internet network, musholla, sports field, and the hall. SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak City has educators and teachers as follows, 40 teachers of civil servant teachers and 10 non-permanent teachers, 7 administrative staff 2 librarians, 1 laboratory costodian and 9 other non-permanent employees .

My beloved school in Pontianak: SMP NEGERI 1 - PONTIANAK

We Students SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak Promises:

1. Being Genersi Successor Nation is virtuous, creative And Bertaqwa to God Almighty.

2. Uphold the dignity and good name of SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak

3. Implementing the Code of Conduct and School Regulation With Full Responsibility.

4. Active in following the Organization of Intra School Students, Scouts, and Extracurricular to achieve achievement

5. Enforcing Discipline, a sense of solidarity for the sake of common interests and love of the school environment.

VISION AND MISSION OF SMP NEGERI 1 PONTIANAK CITY

A. Vision of Junior High School 1 Pontianak City"Virtuous, creative, excel in achievement and cultured environment."

B. Mission SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak City

1. Increase religious activities and devotion to God YME, so that the increase of faith and taqwa and achieved the noble school citizens.

2. Improve and apply the discipline of school residents in accordance with the rules and school manners.

3. Improving effective learning, active, creative and fun through the guidance of teachers so that students are able to develop in accordance with its potential.

4. Improve academic and non academic ability of school residents who are tough and competitive through training and guidance

5. Enhance a conducive school environment, comfortable and quiet for all citizens of the school as a school adiwiyata through clean school movements.

6. Involving school residents in the prevention of environmental damage.

7. Involve schoolchildren in the prevention of environmental pollution.

8. Improving the quality of schools that are innovative, relevant, and forward-looking.

9. Improving learning facilities and infrastructure in accordance with the needs of a complete school

10. Increase means for development of school funding sources through school cooperatives, school canteen and other efforts to increase school funding resources.

11. Improve the quality of innovative learning tools for teachers and assessment of students' learning outcomes according to standards

12. Implement school curriculum relevant to the needs of all schoolchildren

13. Implementing the annual Graduation Standard Development up 0.2 for the next 8 Years and achieving the value of National Examination and School Examination above the National Standard

School informations

The head master of the school is Ibu Yuyun Yuniarti, S.Pd. M.Pd.

The garden of SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak wilh so many gold fish.

From Left to Right : Ibu Rosminta, Ibu Nina, Pak Anton, and Pak Ruzani

Academic Support System:

Various facilities are owned by SMPN 1 Pontianak to support teaching and learning activities. These facilities include:

• Classroom

• Library

• Biological Laboratory

• Physics Laboratory

• Computer lab

The school is not just excelling academically but also non academically. There are extracurricular activities/organizations or clubs in the school that supports the skills of the students. There are also workshops, mentoring and outside-of-school programs such as Volleyball, where they were always the number one in every contest, Scout (Pramuka), Paskibra, Marching band, Traditional music, Taekwondo and so on. There are times that they won so many contests and brought a lot of trophies and medals in the school. One example is the bronze medal in student-teacher workshop in Beijing and the water rocket in Manila, Philippines.

I'm so proud of my school! A lot of trophies!!

Teaching System:

Teaching responsibilities are varied depending on the teacher. They set the examinations and provides lectures and the other one is their responsibility outside the classroom. Every teacher has minimum times to teach which is 24 hours per week ( 1 hour = 40 minutes); Monday to Friday and they have midterm test and semester test.

The students will spend 3 years to finish Junior high school and at the end of the last year, they will face national examination from government. The result of their NAT exam will determine which senior high school (SMA) they can enter. If their score is good, then they can enter favorite government school. If their score is not good, and cannot accept in any government school, then they will go to private school, which is quite expensive.

When it comes to the teaching, they also use several methods like Scientific method (observing, questioning, collecting information, associating, and communicating), Discovery / inquiry, Project based, Genre based text, and others.

Materials and other learning sources:

Materials and learning sources are evident in the school. There are a lot of facilities like laboratories, library, and media room. Also, the school has internet connections! The school also provides projectors and speakers for presentation. Regarding the textbooks/ books used by the school, one thing you will observe is that the sources are written in Bahasa Indonesia.

Mathematics textbook written in Bahasa

Measurement and evaluation system:

The assessment is mostly done in multiple choice, essay and fill in the blank. In Mathematics, there are also problem-solving part. Evaluation system is more about cognitive. There are also performance tasks like cooking, etc. There are also notebooks provided by education department that support the students throughout the government. There, they will put their answer in all of the exercises and the teacher will record their scores.

Curriculum:

The curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding goals, content and the lesson materials and the methods used as the guidelines for the conduct learning activities to achieve specific education.

Usually they change the curriculum every 10 years, but right now the government change the curriculum based on the needs and the development of educational needs .

The curriculum in Indonesia named as Kurikulum 2013 Revision that had been designed by Research, Technology and Higher Education in 2013. The Curriculum setting will be students - centered where they will work on as individual or as group in every discussions they had, while the teacher will act as the facilitator that support the knowledge and guide the students to gain the knowledge.

The objective of the curriculum is based on competencies essential as an instrument to direct learners into:

(1) quality human beings capable and pro-active response to the ever-changing challenges of the age;

(2) educated human beings who believe and cautious to God Almighty, be noble, healthy, knowledgeable, capable, creative, independent and

(3) citizens who democratic and responsible national education development which is mandated in Law Number 2003 regarding the system National Education.

The curriculum is written in bahasa however, it is well-planned, organized and done with a group of people. Same as the Philippines, society plays a big role in developing the curriculum. The relationship between the curriculum and the society is natural and encompassing. The curricula should refuel and preserve the culture of society and its aspirations and it is visible in their curriculum.

The Development of SMP Negeri 1 Curriculum Pontianak City refers to the National Education Standards to ensure the achievement of national education goals.National Education Standards consist of eight standards, namely content standards, processes, competence of graduates, education personnel, facilities and infrastructure, management,financing and educational assessment. Two of the eight National Education Standards, namely the Content Standards (SI) and the Graduate Competency Standards (SKL) are the main references for SMP Negeri 1 Pontianak City in developing curriculum.

The 2013 curriculum aims to prepare Indonesian people to have the ability to live as individuals and believing citizens,productive, creative, innovative, affective and be able to contribute to life society, nation, state, and world civilization.

Teaching plan (of your major)

Teaching plan are also written in bahasa. Comparing it in the Philippines, we write it in English. For me and even the teachers there, their teaching plan is more complicated. The reason is that, it is very lengthy and very detailed. One example of that is the teaching plan for Mathematics given to me by my cooperating teacher. The teaching plan is written in bahasa and it is very lengthy that it can be more than 5 pages.

In the Philippines, we actually have teaching plan but it is more simple and we call it also the daily lesson log where is very short. Similar to us, we also consider the curriculum before doing the teaching plan.

Gosh! This is very long!

Actually, 1 teaching plan is usually for 1 chapter and they have several meetings for 1 chapter. So, they need to describe what they will teach in every meeting. For example, In chapter 1, they need 5 meetings, so they will write different kinds of activities for each meeting.

Making those long and complicated lesson plan is soooo tiring and boring and not interesting..But as a teacher it a must, because every semester the government supervisor will come to check it. If we do not do it, then they will give us a low score. 📷

- Ibu Madaresita

Based on the profile of the school, we can say that the academic support system, the teaching system, the sources, the materials, the evaluation system, and the curriculum became progressive since it became the National Standard School for it was the first junior High School in Pontianak. At the same time, the school is still progressing and still needs a lot of improvements like teacher needs, facilities, and so on

Their school and the curriculum is somewhat the same as the schools in the Philippines. We followed learner-centered approach. We just differ in their culture, religions, and language.