Penghargaan Citi Success Fund untuk Guru SMA Lazuardi GIS

Ibu Haiva Limiyya dan Bapak Abdurrahman memperoleh penghargaan dari Citi Success Fund dan HOPE Foundation Indonesia untuk metode pengajaran kreatif. Metode tersebut dituangkan dalam bentuk proposal dan berhasil memperoleh dukungan finansial. Dari 1003 proposal yang diterima panitia, 94 proposal menjadi pemenang, termasuk proposal milik Ibu Haiva dan Pak Abdurahman. Judul proposal yang dikirimkan oleh Ibu Haiva adalah "Ujian Praktek? Siapa Takut?". Sementara judul yang diajukan Pak Abdurrahman adalah
“Photo Voltaic sebagai Konversi Energi Matahari ke Listrik sebagai Primadona Energi Masa Depan”.

Berikut ini adalah cuplikan berita dari harian The Jakarta Post, hasil wawancara dengan Ibu Haiva.

Selamat membaca, dan dukung inovasi guru Indonesia!

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Teachers Honored for Innovations

National News - November 22, 2007

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Most students might agree science means cramming formulas and abstractions into their brains the night before an exam and forgetting it all the next day.

Maybe if they sat in on a class taught by Haiva Limiyya Fatimah at Lazuardi High School in Jakarta, they would have a change of heart.

"I've taught biology for three years, so I know how frightened students are of science. Their days are spent memorizing things they wish they could erase from their heads," Haiva said.

Realizing this, she suggested students work in groups that function like event organizers to design assessment tasks for practical examinations in science subjects.

Haiva's proposal, titled "Who's Afraid of Practical Examinations?" (Ujian Praktik, Siapa Takut?) was one of 94 proposals to receive Citi Success Funds (CSF) financial support for high school teachers to spur their creativity.

She said her project was a way to help make science experiments and examinations less stressful for students by involving them in the designing of the tasks and giving them the opportunity to assess other students.

"I consulted on my idea with teachers in other science subjects, like physics and chemistry. With this concept, teachers can evaluate their students' competence in three subjects at the same time," she said.

The CSF, provided by the Citi Foundation and HOPE Foundation in Indonesia, has handed out grants to hundreds of teachers since 2002.

This year organizers received 1,003 creative project proposals, almost twice the number as last year, from teachers in large cities in Indonesia, including for the first time Medan and Denpasar.
"This is an indication that teachers are continuously trying to improve the quality of their teaching and are eager to compete in designing creative projects for their students," said Charles Ham, the country director of HOPE Foundation in Indonesia.

An education expert and a member of the selection committee, Henny Supolo Sitepu, said, "Most of the entries this year focused on how to build students' interest in science subjects."
Selected teachers received a cash prize of Rp 5 million (US$560) each on Wednesday, just three days before National Teachers Day.

They will implement their projects from November through the end of March 2008, monitored by a panel of judges. Henny said the teachers were able to design creative learning activities for science subjects by making something abstract sound simple and understandable to the students.