The Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry is preparing a “super application” for teachers with a kind of online university that teachers can study at.
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ESTER LINCE NAPITUPULU
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Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, Nadiem Anwar Makarim (left) in dialogue with students and lecturers from a number of campuses in Medan, at the University of North Sumatra, Tuesday (26/10/2021). Nadiem asked for the Merdeka Learning program at the Merdeka Campus to continue to be improved.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Schools of the future, ones that are entertaining and relevant, are being prepared to help transform the education system with the spirit of Merdeka Belajar (Freedom in Learning). Changes must be executed in parallel while ensuring that the foundation for the transformation of the future education system is ready, solid and sustainable.
Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim said during a visit to the Kompas Daily Editorial Office on Tuesday (2/11/2021) that the ongoing five-year period was a time to determine and regulate changes in the direction of education so as not to be misdirected. In the next 10 to 15 years, changes in the education system to help it follow international standards and create entertaining and relevant schools were expected to begin.
“The changes being made in the education system need to shift the old paradigm. The approach taken is no longer imposing all the same but providing greater flexibility for teachers, schools and students to move toward achieving relevant educational goals,” said Nadiem. The education minister was welcomed by the Chief Editor of Kompas Daily, Sutta Dharmasaputra.
The changes being made in the education system need to shift the old paradigm.
Teacher movers
According to Nadiem, the regeneration of teachers with leadership, those who can encourage and drive changes in schools, is being prepared through the teacher mover program. In this program, graduates of teaching programs will be made teachers in disadvantaged, frontier and outermost (3T) regions.
In addition, the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry is preparing a “super application” for teachers with a kind of online university that teachers can study at.
The country’s future schools are also being prepared through a pilot program involving 5,000 school movers. In these schools, a pilot curriculum, which is a simplification of the 2013 curriculum, will be applied. The approach in designing the curriculum has been changed. It no longer results from the thoughts of academics, but is made by teachers, for teachers.
Curriculum Standards and Education Assessment Agency head Anindito Aditomo said that learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, simplifying the full curriculum into an emergency curriculum would be able to save students from learning loss. Students could even get 5 to 6 months of progress in learning outcomes compared to those who continued to use the full curriculum.
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