Ministry Evaluates 2013 Curriculum

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The Ministry of Education and Culture has monitored and conducted an evaluation on the 2013 Curriculum covering three issues including books, learning method, and the teachers’ capability.

Minister of Education and Culture, Mohammad Nuh, said the monitoring and evaluation process is necessary because the books are still examples and the monitoring and evaluation process can help improve the Curriculum for the next semester or year.

The Minister said the results of the monitoring and evaluation will be announced by the end of September.

Moreover, Minister Nuh said the implementation of the 2013 Curriculum has gone well so far and the Government will continue to guide the schools.

Ministry Evaluates 2013 Curriculum

Kemendikbud Evaluasi Kurikulum 2013

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Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan melakukan pengawasan dan evaluasi terhadap pelaksanaan implementasi kurikulum 2013 yang meliputi tiga hal yaitu buku, pembelajaran, dan kemampuan guru. Pengawasan dimulai pada bulan September

Menurut Mendikbud, pengawasan dan evaluasi itu diperlukan karena buku yang digunakan masih bersifat model sehingga dengan adanya pengawasan dan evaluasi dapat dilakukan perbaikan untuk semester berikutnya atau tahun mendatang.

Hasil dari pengawasan tersebut dpat diketahui pada akhir bulan September. M. Nuh juga mengatakan, pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013 terbilang bagus dan pemerintah terus melakukan pendampingan.

The Positive Side of the 2013 Curriculum

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On many occassions, Minister of Education and Culture Mohammad Nuh stated that the 2013 Curriculum was designed to help students reach their highest potential competence, which include attitude, knowledge and skills. This competence is hoped to be able to help students obtain a balance of soft skills and hard skills.

The 2013 Curriculum’s benefits differ according to the level of education. For elementary school, the Curriculum implements a learning method that is thematic-integrated. For junior high school, the basic competence of the Curriculum was created considering the sustainability among classes and harmony among subjects. The structure of the Curriculum was simplified resulting in fewer subjects. For senior high schools, there was a specialization test. The specialized subjects were grouped into the following main categories: Math and Science, Social, and Language. Students were required to choose their preferred field of study from tenth grade. Aside from that, they had an additional 2 hours of school per day.

Although some have criticized the new curriculum, some still support this as a way to help Indonesia grow.

Head of Research & Development at Santa Laurensia, Jeane Budiwati Tjandiagung, says the 2013 Curriculum has a great strong foundation, which can be seen through its contents that develop competence of skills and character. Jean says that in the future, Indonesia needs children who have strengths in 4C, which include critical, creative, communicative, and critical thinking. Therefore, teachers are hoped to be able to convey these messages through various sorts of media in appealing ways.

The Positive Side of the 2013 Curriculum

Mengupas Sisi Positif Kurikulum 2013

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Mulai 15 Juli 2013 kurikulum 2012 resmi diberlakukan di 6.326 sekolah dari jenjang SD hingga SMA di Indonesia. Meskipun masih ada pro dan kontra, visi luhur dari kurikulum 2013 menarik kita cermati. Apalagi ini merupakan upaya bersama demi memajukan pendidikan Indonesia yang lebih baik.

Dalam berbagai kesempatan, Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Mohammad Nuh mengenukakan bahwa kurikulum 2013 dirancang agar siswa mampu meraih kompetensi utama, yaitu sikap, pengetahuan, dan keterampilan. Kompetensi tersebut diharapkan dapat membekali siswa dengan kualitas yang seimbang antara hard skills dan soft skills.

Keunggulan

Untuk jenjang SD/MI, pembelajaran dilakukan dengan metode tematik-integratif. Pada jenjang SMP/MTs, kompetensi dasar kurikulum dilakukan dengan mempertimbangkan kesinambungan antarkelas dan kejarmonisan antarmata pelajaran. Jenjang SMA/MA, terdapat tes peminatan yang terdiri atas, Peminatan Matematik dan Sains, Peminatan Sosial, dan Peminatan Bahasa sejak kelas X.

Evaluasi

Dunia pengajaran adalah dunia yang dinamis, untuk itu sebaiknya setiap sekolah melakukan evaluasi pengajaran secara berkala. Seperti yang dilakukan sekolah Santa Laurensia yang melakukan evaluasi kurikulim secara berkala dibahas per tahun.

Schools Complain against Online Data System

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Schools have been complaining about the online data system that has been repeatedly requested by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Some are confused because they were required to fill in the same information on different pages.

During the first semester of 2013, state and private schools have been busy filling out school data (teacher data, students, alumni, etc) up until the financial data of their schools. However, there is no link among websites, so schools must fill in their own data by themselves. As a result, many schools have been in frenzy just trying to fill out this data.

Many schools also question the security of this system. Some suspect this online data system is just a way to create a business project that will use up a lot of funds.

Schools Complain against Online Data System

Pendataan Pendidikan Daring Dikeluhkan

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Sekolah-sekolah mengeluhkan berbagai pendataan daring yang berkali-kali diminta dinas pendidikan ataupun Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. Ada kebingungan di sekolah karena harus mengisi data berulang kali di laman berbeda.

Pada awal semester pertama tahun 2013, sekolah negeri dan swasta mulai sibuk mengisi data sekolah (data guru, siswa, alumni, dan lain-lain) sampai soal laporan keuangan setiap sekolah. Namun, antara situs web tidak ada link yang jelas.

Akibatnya, banyak sekolah kalang kabut mengisi data. Administrator sekolah yang kebanyakan pegawai tata usaha yang kurang menguasai komputer pun kalang kabut.

Yunita, kepala SD swasta di Sulawesi Utara mengatakan, sekolahnya belum mengisi pendataan daring di data pokok pendidikan (dapodik).

Selain itu, muncul tuntutan mengisi data lengkap di laman http:/padamu.siap.web.id/ yang dikatakan lingkupnya nasional. Laman ini dibuat Badan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia Pendidikan dan Penjaminan Kemendikbud.

Promoting Curriculum 3.1

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Although many were doubtful, history has recorded: Wikipedia managed to wipeout Encarta, the digital encyclopedia, officially in 2009. Previously, Encarta managed to replace the manual encyclopedia Britannica years before. The message behind this encyclopedia paradigm: the big idea of the people nowadays is sharing; a person can be a user and a contributor at once.

The shift in the development of the nation’s curriculum was similar to that of the encyclopedia above. In the conventional curriculum, described as Curriculum 1.0, teachers convey knowledge prepared by the Central Government to the nation. All schools and students passively absorb this information. Sometimes, the Central Government even created the lesson plan. The paradigm of the conventional encyclopedia can be used as an analogy for this. In Curriculum 1.0, neither students nor teachers are involved in the development of the curriculum.

However, Curriculum 2.0 offered a new paradigm: schools created a curriculum based on the standard issued by an independent body or profession. Schools independently designed their own curriculum. Teachers and students arranged the program together.

Then there was Curriculum 3.0. Here, students independently arranged their own study program, aided by the teacher. Students determined what they intended to study and when. In this paradigm, students were responsible for what they needed to study and how they were going to study. However, this Curriculum was still considered to be flawed.

In order to fix the Curriculum 3.0, Curriculum 3.1 was made. The Government, in this paradigm, can be said to be similar to the administrator on Facebook or Wikipedia. It guarantees the functionality of facilities and the how intensive study sessions are so students can optimally develop themselves.

Based on the above analogy, the nation’s curriculum can be considered to have reached the level of Curriculum 2.0. According to the Sisdiknas Law, schools are independently allowed to create their own curriculum based on the national standard created by the National Education Standards Board (BSNP). However, with the new 2013 Curriculum, the nation’s curriculum seems to have regressed to Curriculum 1.0 because the Government has taken on the role of creating the curriculum again. Students, teachers and schools have become mere objects again.

Like the dead Encarta and the developing Wikipedia, the authoritarian Curriculum 1.0 will be neglected by the learning community while Curriculum 2.0 and above will develop naturally. Whatever policies or services made in the future must absolutely involve the people.

Promoting Curriculum 3.1

Menajuk Kurikulum 3.1

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Artikel ini ditulis oleh Iwan Pranoto

Pada 1993 Microsoft menggagas Encarta, sebuah ensiklopedia digital. Awalnya Microsift mengajak Britannica namun, menolak. Setelah adanya Encarta dengan keindahan multimedianya, tak memakan rak buku, dan harganya terjangkau, masyarakat tak tertarik lagi dengan ensiklopedia konvensional.

Encarta telah membunuh Britannica hanya bersenjatakan keringkasan dan kecantikan tampilan, hanya memindahkan ensiklopedia kertas menjadi informasi digital.

2001 muncul gagasan revolusioner membangun sebuah ensiklopedia daring berparadigma baru : Wikipedia dengan layanan gratis. Tiap pengguna diharapkan aktif berkontribusi menulis atau membantu mengoreksi berdasar kepakarannya.

Mirip ensiklopedia

Pergeseran paradigma yang melatari kurikulum pendidikan mirip dengan paradigma   ensiklopedia. Kurikulum konvensional 1.0, guru menyampaikan pengetahuan yang disiapkan pemerintah pusat sama secara nasional. Murid, guru, dan sekolah tidak terlibat mengembangkan kurikulum.

Kurikulum 2.0, sekolah membuat kurikulum berdasarkan standar yang dibuat sebuah badan independen atau profesi. Kurikulum 3.0, murid mandiri menyusun program belajar dan kurikulumnya dibantu guru. Mau belajar apa dan kapan ditentukan sendiri oleh murid. Sistem 3.0 belum cukup, maka dikoreksi menjadi 3.1, pemerintah dalam paradigma ini mirip administrator di Facebook atau Wikipedia. Misinya menjamin berfungsinya fasilitas serta intensif belajar agar siswa dapat mengembangkan dirinya seoptimal mungkin, tapi tidak turut menentukan apa yang dipelajari murid dan bagaimana mempelajarinya.