Workshop for Elementary Teachers in Jakarta

Linking with some teachers in Jakarta area, SATA was invited by Ar-Rahman Islamic Elementary School to hold a joint workshop of Active Learning for Primary Teachers located at Ar-Rahman Islamic School. The Saturday workshop was initiated to build connection with many Islamic schools, particularly for elementary level. Jalu, the coordinator of SATA, delivered active learning best practices in the specific area of understanding learning styles of every student to optimize the students’ absorption of lessons. With other two presenters who are Jalu’s colleague from his previous school, the workshop was stresses on the creativity of teachers teaching in classroom to design learning which is more integrated so the learning is more hands-on. 45 teachers were present in the workshop and they had testified that such program was really helping them in the improvement of the classroom best practices as they also hoped for another training in the future. At the end, SATA presented 10 reusable camera packages for the participating schools to document their process of learning with their students.