“𝗣𝗿𝗲 – 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮” 𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 - 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝟯
𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐈𝐊𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐀
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia is one of the top public universities in Bandung , Indonesia. It is ranked #1201-1400 in QS World University Rankings 2024.
Location: Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229 Bandung 40154 Bandung, Indonesia
Year of foundation: 1954
Number of students: more than 40 000
Telp. 022-2013163
Fax. 022-2013651
E-mail: sekuniv_upi@upi.edu
Indonesia University of Education (UPI), formerly a teacher education college, is now a universal higher institution that offers to study pedagogical sciences, religion, humanities and social, applied sciences and other various fields.
- 58.33% of UPI programs were accredited with BAN-PT PRedicate A
- 7 programs received an excellent predicate
- 16.67% of the curriculum received the predicate B.
- In 2020, UPI entered the TOP-300 universities in subjects of education based on the QS World University Rankings.
VISION
In line with the direction of development, identity and future challenges, the formulation of the vision of the Indonesian Education University is Pioneer and Excellent (Leading and Outstanding).
MISSION
1. Organizing education by fostering and developing educational disciplines and educational scientific disciplines, as well as religious scientific disciplines, social sciences, natural sciences, formal sciences and applied sciences proportionally to strengthen educational scientific disciplines and educational scientific disciplines;
2. Develop Professional Teacher Education that is integrated in academic and professional education for all educational pathways and levels; and
3. Disseminate experiences and innovative findings in educational science disciplines, educational science disciplines, religious sciences, humanities sciences, social sciences, natural sciences, formal sciences and applied sciences for the betterment of society.
OBJECTIVES
The Indonesian University of Education has the following objectives:
1. Produce educators, educational staff, scientists and experts in all types and programs of higher education, who are devoted to God Almighty and have global competitive and comparative advantages; and
2. Produce, develop and disseminate science and technology to improve the welfare of society.
For more info, you can visit https://www.upi.edu/.
𝐀. 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋 : 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
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School Profile
School Name: Labschool UPI Senior High School Bandung Indonesia
Status: Private School
Address: Jl. Senjaya Guru (Kampus UPI) Tlp. (022) 2004404 - Bandung 40154
Contact Number: +62 22 2004404
Email: sma_labschool@upi.edu
Number of Students
Grade 10 : 188
Grade 11 : 139
Grade 12 : 166
Number of Faculty and Staff
42 Teachers
11 Staffs
Vision
SMA Labschool UPI is a leading school in innovation, education service, teaching and learning process in national level and South East Asia level in 2025.
Mission
- Develop internal model schools implement national standards and/or standards international.
- Developing various educational and learning concepts and practices through collaborative research.
- Develop theories, research results and learning innovations collaboratively between lecturers and student teachers and teachers in laboratory schools.
- Develop models for partner schools in management practices, guidance and counseling services, inclusive learning, as well as innovative, creative, effective and fun learning that can maximize students' learning potential.
- Develop model schools based on local wisdom, caring for the environment, literate and literate in information and technology.
Academic and Teaching Support System
SMA Labschool UPI, Excellent academically, socially and religiously. On August 4, 2003, there was a crucial moment in which SMA and SMP Korpri became part of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. The name of it was also turned into SMA Labschool UPI and located right in the heart of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. On October 20, 2003, SMA Labschool UPI was officially opened by the education minister of Indonesia.
The School director, Dr. Prayoga Bestari, M.Si said that SMA Labschool is a teaching school or demonstration school for Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Therefore, it is expected to make it as one lab meaning that it will have one management, one system, one curriculum and one bank to manage it well.
SMA Labschool UPI has also three different programs such as Tauhid, Bilingual and Regular program. Tauhid Program is a collaboration program with Daarut Tauhid to provide teaching and learning processes focusing on religious matters preparing students to compete in this globalization era. Meanwhile, the Bilingual program offers an international science curriculum combined with a national curriculum. It also offers the mastery of English and Japanese literacy helping students to compete in a 4.0 digital atmosphere especially with the mastery of language. The last one is a regular program using a national curriculum enriched with an enhanced curriculum set by the school. It is intended to get students ready for the future that they will face soon when they graduate.
Apart from the program that the school developed, it also has many great facilities such as a representative and strategic location of the school which is conducive for teaching and learning process, comfortable classroom completed with air-conditioner, impressive computer laboratory, science laboratory, digital laboratory, library, indoor field, consultation room, mushola, lift, lobby, canteen, pool, cctv, hot spot area for internet connection.
SMA Labschool UPI supports the development of students' creativity with many extracurriculars from various fields such as science, sport, art, religion, and skill.
SMA Labschool UPI made some collaborations with educational and non-educational institutions at national and international level. As a teaching school, SMA Labschool UPI offers outstanding educational services with the positive feedback from people for the better quality of the school. Media socials are also used to give valuable and accurate information about all activities held in the school so that people will be informed well.
The collaboration of SMA Labschool has also been built strongly with all stakeholders such as the school committee, parents, students, teachers and school staff to achieve the vision and mission of the school which is becoming an excellent school academically, socially and religiously.
With all the innovation and program that the school has, the alumni of SMA Labschool have been accepted in many universities in Indonesia and abroad.
𝐁. 𝐏𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒
Teaching methods of the teacher that observed
Since it is already my second time to be in UPI SMA Labschool, I didn't had a hard time coping up with the school's system, I am already comfortable with the people around me, though I already have a different cooperating teacher from before, I now have Ibu Lia as my new cooperating teacher. Furthermore, I was again assigned to the X Bilingual classes so I already have some knowledge on how is the setup or management inside the classroom works. Though I still need some time to adjust, on the first few days of the week, I had my class observation first, since it's been months since my last visit, there might be changes happened, and it is a new semester, in a different season, and that is a factor we need to consider in this situation.
During my observation, the class undergo this process of teaching method: first the teacher will ask something about an idea or any related issues about to the lesson, just like the Corona Virus or other viral disease as an introduction for virus as what we observed. With this students will share some of their knowledge and experience about it that shows a collaborative and interactive learning. Then the teacher will show a short video clip to students regarding the topic, adjusting to the level of thinking of the students. Since the class is a Bilingual class the video is in English with subtitles. After the video, that's the time where the formal discussion begins, and the teacher will continuously engage students to the discussion by asking them several questions that also aim to acquire knowledge.
Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge how the teacher adjusts for the comfort of the students' learning environment, in terms of groupings and even in the process of learning itself.
The learning materials and innovation
I actually envy the students and I'm amazed by the school on how they run their academy. Students have their own hardbound book of the latest and good quality books for today's learning. Also, I've been to several classes during my stay in SMA Labschool UPI, and each class has a locker where they can put their personal belongings. Another thing is that in a classroom there are only 20-25 students, fully airconditioned, with an elevator in each floor, and students have free access to their laboratories, computers, literary works, library, publications, and even a school-wide free internet connection.
Sources of learning and technology used by the teachers
I was informed that Indonesia is practically above average when it comes to technology, and I witnessed it with my own eyes. Each classroom has an automated LCD Projector, speaker, and computer monitor used by teachers during lesson proper. The faculty room is even equipped with shelves of books, and each faculty has a monitor where they can use it for gathering and preparing lessons. In addition, when unavailability or dysfunction of equipment occur, the teacher provides alternative instructional materials like printed copies or QR codes for students to access using their cellular phones connected to the internet of the school premises.
Authentic assessment used by the teacher
The teacher mostly used a collaborative way of assessing student's learning through groupings, reporting, role play, projects, and experiments. Since there are just 20-25 students per classroom, students are able to fully adhere and authentically show their potential and capabilities in different aspects or fields of assessments.
𝐂. 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍
Curriculum
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Curriculum 2013 has been implemented since it is nominated as the national curriculum in 2013 in Indonesia. The curriculum then has been enriched with enhanced curriculum which makes it different from other schools.
SMA Labschool UPI has implemented curriculum 2013 enriched with enhanced curriculum preparing students to be competitive and ready to be part of 4.0 global citizens.
Teaching plan related to your major
This is the sample teaching plan used by my
cooperating teacher.
𝐃. 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄
Procedures of teaching
Based on the lesson plan I prepared and approved by my mentor and cooperating teacher, I first had an attendance, then a little conversation and greetings with my students, since I'll be teaching in pure English, I need to comprehend and understand how they internalize things inside the classroom. Then reviewing the previous lesson and learning.
Before proceeding to the lesson, we first had a sing and dance exercise, since my class is being held early in the morning, I need to ready them physically with my lesson, so we performed the "Every Single Cell" song. After readying them physically, I then made a little game called "Who Am I?", in here I prepared riddles that has something to do with the different professions or job found in the society, this is for students to be aware of the different roles/jobs in a certain community - just like in cell. There are different organelles found in a cell and each organelles has their own characteristics and roles in maintaining and sustaining every cells needs. With that kind of motivation, students actively participated and collaborated, and the last riddle I gave was about cell, and they just answer it easily as cell is define as the basic building blocks of all living matter, and that's how I start my lesson proper.
During the discussion, the students are attentively listening, since the lesson is kind of unfamiliar to them, and there are too many organelles for them to intake, I made learning easier for them to understand. Since I have given them societal roles during the motivation part, I used those roles/jobs as an illustration on how different organelles work inside the cell. Just like for example, the nucleus as the president, the mitochondria as the electricians, and such, for them to easily remember and internalize how cells work, and I think they got the catch on it. Though, there are questions arising in the middle of discussion, asking the strange, and new terms, and with all the knowledge I got, I think I answered them respectfully. I ended my lesson by asking some reflective questions that they sincerely and honestly answered, like what if one organelle malfunction, what will happen to the cell, or in your own opinion, what is the most important organelle and such questions for them to deliberate their own perspective regarding the lesson.
Right after the discussion period, I handed them the "Cell Crossword Puzzle", wherein students need to answer a specific question for them to tic/fill the boxes with the correct word that are positioned vertically and horizontally. Before the end of the class, the students finish it in a short span of time, and with that I can conclude that they learn something from the discussion as the puzzle became an assessment of learning for students.
Lastly, I ended the the class by summarizing the lesson by asking them random question in review to the learnings we had. Also, I ask them to have some readings about our next discussion as their assignment for us to have a more collaborative discussion on the next meeting.
In addition, before the start of a new lesson, I am giving them a quiz as a refreshment of the previous lesson. First we will play "The Boat is Sinking, Group Yourselves Into....", wherein they need to group themselves depending on the lead person's command, and I saw how they had fun doing it. As I took the last command, I asked them to group themselves depending on their number divide them by four groups, and to surprise them, that became their group for the quiz. Since they already had an activity worksheet individually right after the discussion, I decided to make a group collaboration for their quiz, and that's it, a group quiz bee in which I will flash a question on the screen, and then they will raise their boards as their time for answering stopped.
Time management and organizing activities
What I like about SMA Labschool UPI is that they are really into the students welfare, no pressure, just taking the time. Each subject has an allotted time of 80 minutes twice a week, so I really had a smooth time to execute the lesson properly, organizely, and clearly. From the introduction, up to motivations, lesson proper, generalization, assessment and evaluation still involves a collaborative and interactive method of learning that is much needed to 21st century learners.
Classroom management
Since there are just 20-25 students, and it's my second time around to be with them, I didn't have a hard and long time connecting and catching up with them. I was familiarized with their names, faces, and personality for a short period of time. Additionally, SMA Labschool students are respectful, disciplined, and thoughtful to their elders, especially to their teachers. They call me Miss Joy, and whenever I enter the classroom they will immediately go back to their seats and even help me with my things and setting up my instructional materials. Even though I am a foreigner to them, they still share their warm smiles, ideas, thoughts, and trust with me.
Problem-solving while teaching and staying in the designated school
𝐄. 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
Purposes of Practicum
SEA Teacher Project or Pre – Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia is a one big privelege for aspiring educators in Southeast Asia, and below are my personal purpose or objective as a SEA Teacher Project Participant:
A) Enhance my teaching skills to better engage and educate my students, fostering a more effective learning environment.
B) Cultivate a genuine interest in the social and cultural aspects of my students' lives, allowing me to connect with them on a deeper level and create a more inclusive classroom.
C) Strive for global competitiveness by continually upgrading my knowledge and skills, ensuring I stay at the forefront of educational trends and practices.
D) Embrace the opportunity to explore and adapt to the diverse global perspectives and interests that students bring to the learning environment, making the educational experience more enriching and inclusive.
Procedures of Practicum
I first heard about this program when my senior educator had an overview about it, and since then I committed myself to joining this project. Below are the actual procedures I have been through for my whole journey as a SEA Teacher:
1) I submitted my application form to my respective college.
2) I had an interview with the school administration.
3) I submitted the necessary documents to the receiving school in order to obtain a letter of acceptance.
4) I embarked on a month-long journey to Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, where I engaged in activities such as class observation, teaching assistance, teaching practicum, and evaluation.
5) I composed this blog as part of the requirements for this project, fulfilling all necessary criteria.
Outcomes of Practicum
A) My exposure to intercultural activities has enriched my understanding of the diverse cultures in various nations, enabling me to appreciate the differences.
B) Through my experiences, I've acquired effective strategies to address students' unique learning preferences in a more efficient manner.
C) This journey has taught me the importance of continuous learning in my chosen career. Stepping out of my comfort zone has revealed that there's always more to discover and a greater appreciation for what I have right now.
D) I've cultivated greater independence and resilience, learning to stand firmly on my own feet amid the ever-changing nature of life, as change remains the only constant in this world.
The Challenges of Practicum
Though it is already my second time in UPI, we can't change the fact that I am still a student teacher, it will remain as the first challenge I need overcome. Being away from home, doing the things you're not used to do, trying new things, exploring the unknown, but now that the program ended, everything was worth the while. Taking this first challenge is the best thing I ever done, and I think I did a great job overcoming this undeniable exciting journey I had.
Second, we can't change the fact that language
is a big barrier we need to overcome wherever we go. At first it is not easy
since not most of the people can understand what you are trying to say, but
with the most common denominator that gives understanding to this undeniable
problem, we have respect, people will respect you whoever you are, whatever you
are. With the warm smile in the midst of misunderstanding is a clear view on
how people respect you despite your differences in races and beliefs.
Lastly, this is the greatest challenge I had for the second time around. The attachment I had in the people, in the place I've been to. Since it's already my second time in Indonesia, same place, same people, but now better to best experience I had in my entire life, especially as a student teacher, this lingering feeling will be the hardest challenge I need to take for the rest of my life.
Overall Impression
At first, I thought teaching was plain, boring, but now I am more than satisfied, more than fulfilled by this program, and now I can't get enough. It's been a week since I went back to my country, but here I am still curling with the memories I had on this program. Thank you SEAMEO for this very unforgettable and memorable experience I had, this is something I will hold onto forever as an educator. Now that I have taken another footstep, I am again fully determined to 'lead through learning' with the knowledge, experience, and wisdom I gained, in all possible ways that I can.
Suggestions for Future Improvement
If I were to borrow one of the SEA Teacher's
mentors in UPI, "I think one month is not enough to fully adhere to this
program, let's make this program longer for a more enjoyable and fruitful
experience for our SEA Teachers", and I think I would be seconded.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!