scholarly journals Children’s Tendency to be Absent From School and Their School-Life Skills : Transition From Elementary to Junior High School

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
TETSUYA IGARASHI
Author(s):  
Nurhaningtyas Agustin ◽  
Muslimin Ibrahim ◽  
Wahono Widodo

This study aims to produce biotechnopreneurship-based science learning materials that are valid, practical, and effectiveto facilitate junior high school students’ life skills. This research is development research using a 4D development model that produces Biotechnopreneurship-based science learning materials equipped with the syllabus, lesson plan, student worksheets, life skills tests. Learning materials were tested on 35 junior high school students with the one-group pretest-posttest design. Data analysis is descriptive qualitative with the results: (a) validation of learning materials with valid categories (score 3-4); (b) readability of learning materials with good categories (c) implementation of learning in good categories (score 3.7); (d) student responses were positive; (e) students’life skills generally increase (N-gain 0.71 with high category). The indicator of Life Skills that experiences the most significant increase between pre test and post test is the aspect of making a decision. Indicators of information gathering are indicators that have a low increase after learning. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the biotechnopreneurship-based science learning materials are valid, practical, and effective to facilitate junior high school students’ life skills.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Dedy Achmad Kurniady ◽  
Sururi ◽  
Suryadi

The role of the principal is important for directing school life to achieve school goals. The principal appointment is attained through formal and rational consideration, determined by procedures, requirements, and regulations. This study is concerned with the development of performance appraisal model of junior high school principals and is aimed to achieve the following aims: 1) to detect rules and system regarding principals performance appraisal; 2) to verify and describe components, process and measures results of principals appraisal, and 3) to analyse Performance Based required by principals; and 4) to generate hypothetical models of principal performance appraisals in junior high school level. In order to have principals with all standard criteria, efforts to improve principal professional capacities are needed to conduct in a well-planned manner through continuous quality improvement. These improvements are mapped out intermittently so that principals profiles based on measures results of Principals Performance Appraisal can be put into actual. Performance appraisal is designed to identify data on principals performance.


Author(s):  
Elana Maryles Sztokman

This chapter argues that schools shape communities as much as communities shape schools. It is part of an ethnographic case study of a state religious junior high school, the Levy Girls' Religious School, in Israel. The study is based on three years of qualitative research at the school, from 1999 to 2002, during a period in which it was undergoing an experiment in social and ethnic transformation. The research as a whole includes dozens of interviews with students, staff, parents, and other interested parties, as well as observations of all aspects of school life, including classes, meetings, field trips, assemblies, and countless daily interactions in corridors, courtyards, and corners of the school. This chapter focuses on the school's principal, Dr Sylvia Cohen, and is based on ten open-ended interviews and dozens of observations during the course of the research.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-199
Author(s):  
Nansee Greeley ◽  
Theresa Reardon Offerman

Now… Michael Anthony Began What Would Be His Career as a dancer when he was in elementary school. His parents had e nrolled him in both piano and dance classes. and he soon discovered his love of music. During junior high school, he succumbed to peer pressure and dropped dance to play sports. Michael's agility and conditioning from dance, however. proved he lpful on both the court and the field, and he soon became a valued member of his junior high school football and basketball team. By the time he started high school, he realized how much he missed dance. While continuing his sports, he returned to dance lessons and found the theater to be a wonderful place to incorporate dance with high school life. After high school, Michael attended the Boston Conservatory. majoring in musical theater and minoring in dance. He believes that his strong mathematic background significantly helped him in his music-theory courses and that it is an asset in his career as a director, composer, and choreographer.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Reni Rokhayati ◽  
Memmy Dwi Jayanti

Teacher in the learning process is not only required to make up the pattern of student centered learning. Teaching materials are interesting, creative, and innovative needs to be done, so that learning is not monotonous and students can apply a skill that is used when it works or not.Skills in question are life skills for someone tu run his life wherever located.This research carried out in Utama secondary schools with the number of 20 people, precisely at the semester begins March to June 2015. The goal of making teaching materials to facilitate teachers in delivering the curriculum in the classroom where the material does not expect 2013 to be receiving only. Value life skill that is found in teaching materials teacher Utama Junior High School consists of skills: Thinking Skills(8,3%), manage skills (16,7%), related skills ( 25%), care skills (8,3%) gives skills (16,7%), working skills ( 25%).


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