Masalah Pendidikan di Indonesia

Kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia saat ini sangat memprihatinkan. Ini dibuktikan antara lain dengan data UNESCO (2000) tentang peringkat Indeks Pengembangan Manusia (Human Development Index), yaitu komposisi dari peringkat pencapaian pendidikan, kesehatan, dan penghasilan per kepala yang menunjukkan, bahwa indeks pengembangan manusia Indonesia makin menurun. Di antara 174 negara di dunia, Indonesia menempati urutan ke-102 (1996), ke-99 (1997), ke-105 (1998), dan ke-109 (1999).Menurut survei Political and Economic Risk Consultant (PERC), kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia berada pada urutan ke-12 dari 12 negara di Asia. Posisi Indonesia berada di bawah Vietnam. Data yang dilaporkan The World Economic Forum Swedia (2000), Indonesia memiliki daya saing yang rendah, yaitu hanya menduduki urutan ke-37 dari 57 negara yang disurvei di dunia. Dan masih menurut survai dari lembaga yang sama Indonesia hanya berpredikat sebagai follower bukan sebagai pemimpin teknologi dari 53 negara di dunia.Memasuki abad ke- 21 dunia pendidikan di Indonesia menjadi heboh. Kehebohan tersebut bukan disebabkan oleh kehebatan mutu pendidikan nasional tetapi lebih banyak disebabkan karena kesadaran akan bahaya keterbelakangan pendidikan di Indonesia. Perasan ini disebabkan karena beberapa hal yang mendasar. Salah satunya adalah memasuki abad ke- 21 gelombang globalisasi dirasakan kuat dan terbuka. Kemajaun teknologi dan perubahan yang terjadi memberikan kesadaran baru bahwa Indonesia tidak lagi berdiri sendiri. Indonesia berada di tengah-tengah dunia yang baru, dunia terbuka sehingga orang bebas membandingkan kehidupan dengan negara lain.Yang kita rasakan sekarang adalah adanya ketertinggalan didalam mutu pendidikan. Baik pendidikan formal maupun informal. Dan hasil itu diperoleh setelah kita membandingkannya dengan negara lain. Pendidikan memang telah menjadi penopang dalam meningkatkan sumber daya manusia Indonesia untuk pembangunan bangsa. Oleh karena itu, kita seharusnya dapat meningkatkan sumber daya manusia Indonesia yang tidak kalah bersaing dengan sumber daya manusia di negara-negara lain.Setelah kita amati, nampak jelas bahwa masalah yang serius dalam peningkatan mutu pendidikan di Indonesia adalah rendahnya mutu pendidikan di berbagai jenjang pendidikan, baik pendidikan formal maupun informal. Dan hal itulah yang menyebabkan rendahnya mutu pendidikan yang menghambat penyediaan sumber daya menusia yang mempunyai keahlian dan keterampilan untuk memenuhi pembangunan bangsa di berbagai bidang.Kualitas pendidikan Indonesia yang rendah itu juga ditunjukkan data Balitbang (2003) bahwa dari 146.052 SD di Indonesia ternyata hanya delapan sekolah saja yang mendapat pengakuan dunia dalam kategori The Primary Years Program (PYP). Dari 20.918 SMP di Indonesia ternyata juga hanya delapan sekolah yang mendapat pengakuan dunia dalam kategori The Middle Years Program (MYP) dan dari 8.036 SMA ternyata hanya tujuh sekolah saja yang mendapat pengakuan dunia dalam kategori The Diploma Program (DP).

Innovative technological advancements to improve cognitive and social skills of students with neurodevelopmental disorders

BACKGROUND: A major concern that is being increasingly addressed in modern educational environments is the ability to present equal accessibility opportunities to students with neurodevelopmental conditions and disorders as for typically developing children. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of the paper is to employ innovative technological advancements merged with evidence-based practices in order to teach, improve and generalise social skills for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) as well as children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). METHODS: The development of a personalized solution adapted to the needs of each student is proposed. The platform will be composed of three main modules (Content Management, Emotional Analysis and Personalization). The target group is students of the Primary Years Program and Middle Years Program. EXPECTED RESULTS: Improved communicational and interactional capability of people with disabilities and facilitate social innovation; more affordable technologies and products that support interactions for people with disabilities, and new generation of services that are highly adaptable and personalisable to individual contexts. CONCLUSIONS: In order to achieve the optimum output/result of the system the procedure need to be implemented and reviewed by all involved parties.

The effect of primary years program (PYP) on children’s science process skills (SPS) in early childhood education

The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of the Primary Years Program (PYP) on the science process skills (SPSs) of children in early childhood education. The study design was quasi-experimental and focused on children attending private schools in Istanbul. In this study, the Science Process Scale developed by Ozkan (2015) was used. Herein, approval for this study was granted by the Ministry of National Education, and consent was given by parents, to determine differences between their preschoolers who were attending an International Baccalaureate (IB) and Ministry of National Education school. Before implementing the PYP, a pretest was applied to the children in the experimental and control groups. After that, the children in the experimental group attended the PYP for 12 weeks. Conversely, the children in the control group attended the program of the Ministry of National Education. Following this 12-week period, the children were given a posttest. When the pretest results were compared after completing the IB program, there were no significant differences between the experimental and control groups. After the 12 weeks, a significant difference was found between the two groups with regards to their SPSs. When analyzed according to the factors, there seemed to be no differences between the two groups. However, at the end of the research, an interesting difference was found between the post and follow-up test results in the experimental group. Key Words: International Baccalaureate, Primary Years Program, Science Process Skills, Preschool Education.

The The family involvement in different early childhood curricula and approaches in the world

Family involvement, an important element of effective early childhood education programs, is crucial for children's learning processes and development. With family involvement, while families have the opportunity of participating and contributing to their children's development and learning processes schools gain unique information about children's interests, needs and experiences. A positive cooperation to be developed between families and schools helps children to integrate home and school lives. The aim of this study is to present the current situation by reviewing the literature in terms of family involvement and discuss and compare the family involvement dimension of the Primary Years Program (PYP), Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Creative Curriculum and Te Whāriki programs, which are early childhood education programs and approaches around the world. For this purpose, a review study has been conducted.

Peran Kepala Madrasah dalam Pengembangan integrasi Kultur dan karakter Akhlak Mulia berbasis Pesantren di Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Qulub Tawar Gondang Mojokerto

The low quality of Indonesian education was also shown Data Research and Development (2003) in Panjaitan (2014) that of 146 052 elementary schools in Indonesia was only 8 schools who gained worldwide recognition in the category of The Primary Years Program (PYP). Of the 20,918 junior high schools in Indonesia, there are only 8 schools that received world recognition in the category of The Middle Years Program (MYP), and from 8,036 SMA, only 7 schools received world recognition under The Diploma Program (DP). The purpose of this research is to describe the role of Principals in the Integration Development of Culture and Moral character-based Noble Boarding School in Fresh Qulub MTs Miftahul Gondang Mojokerto, Based on the discussion can be summarized as follows: 1) The model of character education in adolescents aims to develop personality traits. Character education is done by acting speech directive (advice, orders, suggestions, etc.). Character education models in adolescents are integrated into various learning activities, school rules, and extracurricular activities or media posters attached to school walls. 2) The implementation of character education in MTs Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto maximum run boarding school because the curriculum is integrated with the school curriculum, in which the achievement of values ​​in schools is a prerequisite for the achievement of values ​​in schools. In addition, students in MTs Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto are students in boarding Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto, so the location is in one place, then facilitate monitoring and evaluation. 3) Implementation of character education in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Qulub Tawar Gondang Mojokerto can be grouped into three domains namely: (l) affective. character education planting resulted in a change of attitude, through habituation on an ongoing basis both in schools and at schools to make students have certain characters such as steadfastness, good morals, self, and others; (2) cognitive linking character education into subjects give students an understanding of the values ​​of character and the importance of character in everyday life, so as to stimulate awareness of the students to practice the values ​​of characters in everyday life; And (3) psychomotor: through the learning experiences that students receive both in the pesantren and at school, they have the most embodied abilities into behavioral forms in everyday life. This practice is a continuation of the affective and cognitive spheres in the form of behavioral trends. Behavior is influenced by his learning experience through habituation that form the character inherent in him

Peran Kepala Madrasah dalam Pengembangan integrasi Kultur dan karakter Akhlak Mulia berbasis Pesantren di Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Qulub Tawar Gondang Mojokerto

The low quality of Indonesian education was also shown Data Research and Development (2003) in Panjaitan (2014) that of 146 052 elementary schools in Indonesia was only 8 schools who gained worldwide recognition in the category of The Primary Years Program (PYP). Of the 20,918 junior high schools in Indonesia, there are only 8 schools that received world recognition in the category of The Middle Years Program (MYP), and from 8,036 SMA, only 7 schools received world recognition under The Diploma Program (DP). The purpose of this research is to describe the role of Principals in the Integration Development of Culture and Moral character-based Noble Boarding School in Fresh Qulub MTs Miftahul Gondang Mojokerto, Based on the discussion can be summarized as follows: 1) The model of character education in adolescents aims to develop personality traits. Character education is done by acting speech directive (advice, orders, suggestions, etc.). Character education models in adolescents are integrated into various learning activities, school rules, and extracurricular activities or media posters attached to school walls. 2) The implementation of character education in MTs Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto maximum run boarding school because the curriculum is integrated with the school curriculum, in which the achievement of values ​​in schools is a prerequisite for the achievement of values ​​in schools. In addition, students in MTs Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto are students in boarding Miftahul Qulub Fresh Gondang Mojokerto, so the location is in one place, then facilitate monitoring and evaluation. 3) Implementation of character education in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Qulub Tawar Gondang Mojokerto can be grouped into three domains namely: (l) affective. character education planting resulted in a change of attitude, through habituation on an ongoing basis both in schools and at schools to make students have certain characters such as steadfastness, good morals, self, and others; (2) cognitive linking character education into subjects give students an understanding of the values ​​of character and the importance of character in everyday life, so as to stimulate awareness of the students to practice the values ​​of characters in everyday life; And (3) psychomotor: through the learning experiences that students receive both in the pesantren and at school, they have the most embodied abilities into behavioral forms in everyday life. This practice is a continuation of the affective and cognitive spheres in the form of behavioral trends. Behavior is influenced by his learning experience through habituation that form the character inherent in him