Catholic Classroom Communities During Remote Teaching

In this COVID-era study, Catholic school teachers report the challenges that they experienced in supporting classroom communities during remote instruction, as well as the strategies that they enacted to address such challenges and make robust relationships with and among remote students. While teachers engaged in remote teaching, they were also studying in a Catholic Master of Arts in Teaching program, where they participated in weekly Freirian culture circles — structured dialogues designed to help teachers identify problems of equity and collectively devise appropriate responses. The teachers found that classroom community was hindered by a lack of in-person affordances, socioemotional stressors related to the pandemic, struggles to engage students, and structures of hybrid teaching. In response, teachers used the culture circles to create and/or share strategies for supporting remote classroom communities, such as classroom meetings and smallgroup collaboration. Teachers recognized that efforts to develop classroom communities were intimately connected to commitments to equity.

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN AKTIVITAS BELAJAR MATEMATIKA MELALUI MODEL DISCOVERY LEARNING DENGAN THINK-PAIR-SHARE PADA SISWA KELAS VIII.I SMP N 3 KOTO BARU

This is a Classroom Action Reserach in an attemp to improve students’ activity in learning Math subject of Grade VIII.1 SMPN 3 Koto Baru on the material of the samenes linear held from September to Desember 2014. The research is formulated in two cycles of twice classroom meetings for each cycle. Every cycle meeting drives four phases; planning, action,observation, and reflection. Instruments applied, are students’ activities observation sheets and questionaires. Analysis technique is Qualitative Descriptive and Percentage. The finding result of the reasearch in average is gained improvement to the students’ learning activity at every matter or each indicator from cycle one to cycle two; it is from 54% to 64%.