SCHOOL PROFILE
TK Kemala Bhayangkari in Bengkulu is a public preschool school owned by the Kemala Bhayangkari Daerah Bengkulu Foundation, the foundation is also known for different projects and facilities relating to education. The school offers different facilities such as the library, conducive classroom, outdoor gazebo, and playground. These facilities cater to the needs of the students in their cognitive, physical, emotional, spiritual, social and moral development. This helps the students develop their independence, social behavior, and their sense of responsibility for a better future to the students. This preschool offers nursery ages 4 to 5 years old and kindergarten ages 5 to 6 years old.
academic support system
TK Kemala Bhayangkari has teachers who graduated from universities and most of them finished Early Childhood as their undergraduate study. They have been teaching in PAUD for a lot of years now. They are skilled individuals who have the knowledge to teach these young children. The school also offers facilities that would help the teachers in honing the child’s potential. They have the playground and outdoor gazebo where the students can play during their free time, the arts and crafts area where the students can develop their fine motor skills, music area where students can develop this skills in singing and listening. They also have the nature and planting area through the effort of the Bhayangkari that they let students plant on their own and the reading corner that helps the student to develop their reading skills and comprehension.
teaching system
TK Kemala Bhayangkari provides concrete materials, facilities and different books for the students to understand the lessons better. With the help of the teachers, the students learn more and they are able to understand the topics that they are being taught. In this school, they emphasize the value of religion and moral values, gross and fine motor skills, cognitive, languages, emotional, art, character, and self-development. These are the core aspects that the school wants to develop in each child. They make sure that they don't only teach their students relating to academics, but also real life skills and developing a good attitude.
materials & other learning sources
The school has a lot of materials and learning sources that are provided by the school. They have materials for the different subjects like for arts and craft, they have jarum, which is similar to a needle. Through this materials, the children get to develop and enhance their fine motor skills and also their creativity. They also have blocks that the children can play with, books located in the library, and many more. Inside the classroom, they also have the shelves that have toys that they can use in dramatic play. The school provides the students with developmentally appropriate materials that would help the students. These materials are available and free, so that the students can utilize them.
measurement & evaluation system
TK Kemala Bhayangkari has various activities such as art activities and workbooks for the students that would allow teachers to monitor the progress and development of each child. Every after class, each of the students has one on one reading session with their teacher. They are not giving number grades to the students instead they have a checklist to assess the child in every aspect of development. Their grading system in school is narrative prepared by the teacher every semester and explained directly to the parents one on one. Even if the school is kind of traditional, they don't only grade or see the progress of the children in terms of their academics, they also evaluate the children through different aspects.
curriculum
Preschool education is designed to help in developing the the different domains of development for a strong foundation and to help the child get ready for a bigger school which usually starts in the first grade. The curriculum that TK Kemala Bhayangkari follows is the one from the National Education of the Government, compared to our education in our country, it is like their Department of Education. In the curriculum, there are suggested activities that the children can do every week that is related and connected to the lesson. In this curriculum, their target is to really develop the children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills through play of small and large group activities. Children can enter school at the age of four years old to attend the nursery class. This class focuses mainly on the play but they make sure that counting skills and basic reading are taught.
teaching plan
The teachers in TK Kemala Bhayangkari create their teaching plan with different divisions such as the topic, the sub-theme of the activity, the objectives that they want to attain such as the cognitive, psychomotor and affective, and the materials they are going to use in the activity. It also includes how the teacher will execute their lesson. They have the motivation where they will engage the students in the class, the lesson proper and its development, and the evaluation to assess if the students understand the lesson. Their teaching plan is similar to our lesson plan since they also have some of the content that you usually see. The teaching plan is really important since it serves as the teacher's guide throughout the lesson. It helps keep the teacher in track so that he or she will not get lost or get off topic.
others
Our receiving university was the Universitas Bengkulu, itt was really a great university and for the short amount of time we spent in Indonesia, it became my second home. This green university helped me in making this journey possible. The people here were all nice, kind and accommodating, they made me feel as if I'm not a foreigner. They became my second family who were there all throughout my stay in Bengkulu.