Schools In Aceh Research Articles

Traditional Dayah Education in Aceh in the Perspective of Perennialist Philosophy

This study aims to analyze the existence of education in dayah in terms of perennialist philosophy. The problem that will be studied is the existence of the dayah education system and its relationship with the concept of perennialist philosophy. The research methodology is library research with a descriptive analysis approach. The findings of this study are: First: the curriculum in Aceh's dayahs has led to the refinement of a more modernist curriculum; many Islamic boarding schools in Aceh have integrated the general curriculum into the Islamic boarding school (dayah) curriculum so that there is a balance between public and religious education, even though religious education dominates the implementation curriculum. Second: learning methods, dayahs, have modernized learning methods, such as attending skills and art classes, entrepreneurial learning, financial management, etc. Third, dayahs have prepared students to face the world of industrialization and the needs of the world of work. Fourth, traditional dayahs still preserve the old culture and continue to present new things that are modernist to answer the challenges of the globalization era.

Using Surface Strategy Taxonomy (SST) in Analyzing Students’ Errors in Conducting Recount Paragraph

Writing is considered as one of the most complicated skill in English that leads students to do some errors in conducting particular paragraph. This research was conducted to analyze students’ error in writing recount paragraph. A Theory on Surface Strategy Taxonomy (SST) which is proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982) was used to analyze the students’ work. There were 4 types of errors had been classified according to the theory, namely: omission, addition, malformation, and disordering. A qualitative design was administered in conducting this research. Meanwhile, as the data, a 200-to-250-word recount paragraph had written by each of 30 female students of the tenth grade of a Senior High School in Aceh. The findings showed that the most errors made by the students was in the form of disordering for 29,4%; errors in omission for 27,5%; errors in addition for 21,8%; and errors in malformation for 21,3%. As the conclusion, although errors in writing recount paragraph was something possible to be made by EFL students, to decrease them, the teachers or instructors should facilitate and expedite EFL classroom with more appropriate and various ways of recount text material learning process.

The academic supervision in improving the pedagogical competence of teachers

This study aimed to examine teachers' abilities in organizing, implementing and overcoming obstacles to implementing academic supervision programs to enhance their pedagogical competence. Using observation, interviews, and documentation studies, qualitative methods, and data gathering approaches were utilized for data collection. The subjects of the study were the principals of three high schools in Aceh and the biology professors from each school. The results demonstrated that the planning was developed through conversation with the teacher to identify problems, implementation approaches, and clinical supervision implementers. The program implementation plan incorporates all Education Office personnel, managers, and school principals. However, many teachers still do not understand academic supervision, both in terms of how it is implemented and its function, and there is a lack of supervisors to solve academic supervision problems. However, the implementation of academic supervision is facilitated by the high willingness of teachers to carry out academic supervision and their strong support from the Department of Education

CHEMISTRY TEACHER'S PERCEPTION TOWARD SCIENTIFIC LITERACY

Education has a very important role in the development of Indonesian people as a whole. Based on this, it is necessary to develop various sciences in order to improve the quality of learning and intelligence for a nation. Therefore a research has been conducted entitled Perceptions of Chemistry Teachers Against Science Literacy. This study aims to analyze the perceptions of chemistry subject teachers on scientific literacy in several high schools in Aceh. The sample of this research is chemistry subject teachers in Aceh. The approach used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data collection technique is in the form of an online questionnaire. Based on the results of data analysis and discussion in this study, of the 26 chemistry teachers who filled out a questionnaire, the majority of chemistry teachers had applied scientific literacy to the teaching and learning process after the implementation of the 2013 curriculum. Before the implementation of the 2013 curriculum teachers still often used direct learning. /lecture. Teachers in several areas in Aceh strongly support the application of scientific literacy in chemistry learning. Teachers are eager to take part in the training on scientific literacy that will be held. Professional Learning Community (MGMP) strongly supports the implementation of scientific literacy, especially chemistry lessons.

Minoritas Agama di Sekolah Mayoritas: Relasi Antar Umat Beragama pada Sekolah Umum di Provinsi Aceh, Bali dan Sulawesi Utara

This study aims to find patterns of social relations formed in relations between interfaith religious believers and their implications for religious minorities in public high schools in Aceh, Bali, and North Sulawesi. This research is qualitative research with a comparative descriptive method and data collection techniques using interviews, observation, focus group discussion (FGD), and documentation. The location of this research is in Public Senior High School (SMUN) which was selected based on the diversity of students across religions in the provinces of Aceh, Bali, and North Sulawesi. The subjects of this study were principals, teachers, and students at senior high schools in Aceh, Bali, and North Sulawesi Provinces. The results showed that: firstly, the pattern of social relations formed in public schools in three locations, namely Aceh, Bali, and North Sulawesi found that the pattern of associative social relations occurred in Public Senior Schools in Aceh and North Sulawesi Provinces, while the patterns of dissociative social relations occurred in Public Senior Schools in Bali Province. Secondly, the implications of the patterns of social relations formed for religious minorities in public high schools in the three research locations (Aceh, Bali, and North Sulawesi) can be classified into three forms of implications, i.e. spiritual, psychological, and sociological implications.

Persatuan Ulama Seluruh Aceh (PUSA) dan Reformasi Pendidikan Islam di Aceh, 1939-1952

Islamic education in Aceh in the early 20th century was in a phase of significant decline. This setback was caused by various factors such as the repressive attitude of the Dutch government which always monitored all forms of the learning process in the dayah because it was feared that through the dayah there would be more rebels. This has an impact on a rigid learning system and only studies religious issues, western science is considered something that is forbidden to learn. This increasingly complicated situation poses a challenge for reformist-minded ulama who want to reform the face of Islamic education in Aceh. The Organization of the Association of All Aceh Ulama (PUSA) was finally established as an answer to all the anxiety about the decline in education in Aceh. The reform effort carried out by PUSA is to integrate the general education curriculum with the religious education curriculum. The unification of the vision of every school in Aceh to establishing a university to produce modern teachers.

Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Android-based Mathematics Learning Media Development by Integrating GeoGebra

The utilization of technology as a learning resource or media has been widely used as an innovation to promote learning. It is expected to stimulate the thoughts, feelings, interests, and attention of students in learning. The purpose of this study is to find out teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the need for Android-based mathematics learning media on geometry transformation. This research used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data was collected using validated questionnaires for teachers and students. The subjects of this study were mathematics teachers and 2 nd -grade students at a senior high school in Aceh, Indonesia. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistical methods. The results showed that the geometry transformation subject was difficult for students. The various formulas and the material's abstractness make understanding the transformation subject challenging. Less attractive learning sources or media and a lack of variety in learning approaches are also influential factors. This study also revealed that teachers were still not optimal in utilizing the various available technological media. Thus, teachers and students need interesting and innovative learning media that can assist students in exploring abstract mathematical concepts, especially geometry transformation. These results became an important reference in the development of Android-based learning media assisted by GeoGebra Software.

Attitudes Towards Science: A Study of Gender Differences and Grade Level

<p style="text-align:justify">It should be noted that learning outcomes are not students’ only achievement; attitude is also the main output in learning. This research explores students’ attitudes toward science learning based on gender and the grade level of schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The participants are 1,023 students from the sixth grade of primary schools and the eighth grade of secondary schools. The total sample includes 16 schools spread across the province. The data have been collected using TOSRA. By using the Likert scale, this questionnaire is useful for obtaining descriptions of the students’ attitudes and assigning scores for a certain group of participants. Based on gender, the results show females reflect more positive attitudes toward science than male students do. According to the grade level of the schools, the data reflect the equality of students’ attitudes toward science between primary and secondary schools. Nevertheless, when primary school students enter secondary school, the majority of students enjoy learning science less. This fact is meaningful feedback for science teachers. This result supports the scholars seeking ways to avoid the gender gap in learning activities. Pedagogical implications are also discussed.</p>

Perception of English vowel contrasts by Acehnese-Indonesian bilingual learners of English

Previous studies have reported that second language (L2) learners filter non-native L2 sounds through their existing native or first language (L1) sounds when learning L2 sounds. The degree of similarity between L1 and L2 sounds can predict the ease of acquisition of non-native L2 sounds. In the context of English language learning in Indonesia, most learners are likely to speak two languages before they learn English at school; Acehnese is not wituout any exception. As a result, they have larger phonemic inventories to rely on when learning English sounds. This study seeks to investigate how Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals perceive five sets of vowel contrast in English (i.e., /ɪ/ - /iː/, /æ/ - /ɛ/, /ʌ/ - /ɑː/, /ʊ/ - /uː/, and /ɑː/ - /ɔː/). A special focus is given to their perception of English vowel contrasts that are new, similar, and identical to Acehnese and Indonesian vowels. A group of 31 high school students (N=31) from an Islamic boarding school in Aceh participated in this study. An AX test comprising repetition and minimal pairs of English vowel contrasts in CVC word contexts was randomly presented to the students. The data were analyzed by comparing the means of each vowel pair followed by a general linear model statistical analysis and interpreted based on speech perception and production models. The findings indicate that the Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals discriminate the vowel pairs /æ/ - /ɜː/ and /ɑː/ - /ɔː/ better than the /ɪ/ - /iː/, /ʌ/ - /ɑː/ and /ɑː/ - /ɔː/ pairs. The vowel pairs in which both vowels are novel to Acehnese and Indonesian were moderately discriminated compared to the pairs in which one vowel is similar in both Acehnese and Indonesian. It can be said that students perceived pairs with one vowel similar to Acehnese-Indonesian better than pairs with both vowels or one vowel novel in Acehnese and Indonesian. The findings reported in the paper are expected to inform pedagogic practices, particularly in the development of materials for the teaching of English pronunciation. English teachers in Aceh may incorporate Acehnese words that have similar sounds to English while emphasizing the novel sounds which are absent from the Acehnese vowel system.

Am I getting my point across? Microstructure of English classroom discourses by Acehnese teachers

For English teaching practice, productive talks that spur students’ comprehension, creativity, and problem-solving ability are vital. This research aimed at finding out the spoken discourse based on six phases of microstructure in English classrooms. The data were obtained recordings and observations of two English teachers, chosen through purposive sampling, from Islamic senior high schools in Aceh. The data were concerned with the lexical density or the ratio of content to grammatical or function words within a clause. They were analyzed through thematic analysis which consists of five steps: data familiarization, code generation, theme search, themes revision, and theme definition. It was found that the total lexical density obtained by the first teacher in Class A was 63.66% and in class, B was 66.52%, while the second teacher in Class A was 71. 74% and in Class B was 68.12%. The second teacher 2 in Class A had a higher lexical density than the first teacher even though both of them are considered to produce a high lexical density of around 60-70%. The formality of spoken discourse of the two teachers shows that the first teacher produced 172.5 while the second teacher produced 184. It means that the second teacher's spoken discourse was more formal than the first teacher’s discourse. To analyze the utterances of teachers and to find the density of language used in the classrooms during the teaching and learning process is important because they implicitly inform whether the language used is understandable for the students or not.

Implementation of performance assessment in STEM-based science learning to improve students’ habits of mind

<span lang="EN-US">This study described the implementation of STEM-based science learning and performance assessment to the improvement of students’ thinking skill in Aceh, Indonesia. The purposive sampling technique was employed in this descriptive research. The respondents were 300 students at grade 11th academic year 2019/2020 which representing five public high schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The instruments used to measure the effectiveness of the implementation of STEM-based science learning were the rubric of habits of mind, observation sheets of performance assessments, and questionnaires. The finding presented the implementation of STEM-based science learning was able to habituate and develop students' habits of mind with an average score of 0.71 which included into high category. The average value of the overall STEM-based science learning implementation for the formation of habits of mind is 95.98% which categorized as good. It can be concluded that there is the success of researchers in implementing STEM-based science learning to form students' habits of mind.</span>

Evaluating Certified Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Performance: A Case Study in a High School in Aceh

This study is entitled “Evaluating Certified Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Performance: A Case Study in a High School in Aceh”. The objective of this study is to identify to what extent Indonesia’s teacher certification program affects English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ instructional performance. The data were collected through in-depth interview and observations in a prominent state senior high school in Aceh Besar, Aceh, involving three certificated EFL teachers, fifteen EFL learners and the vice principal of curriculum affairs as participants. The data were subsequently analyzed by thematic analysis with the results distributed into separate themes. The results showed that even though all the teachers were knowledgably well-versed in their ability to devise well-elaborated lesson plans, two of them still exhibited a relatively strict adherence to the whole-class and teacher-centered instructions, with limited use of medias and varied learning sources, causing concern for both EFL learners and the school’s vice principal of curriculum affairs.

Analysis of anxiety, knowledge, and beliefs toward e-learning during covid-19: The case of science teachers in aceh, indonesia

The aim of this research is to analyze anxiety, knowledge, and belief toward e-learning acceptance, especially by science teachers in high schools in Aceh, Indonesia. About 117 teachers were randomly selected for this study. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and analyzed using the Likert scale. The results indicate that most teachers view the use of e-learning in teaching science to be positive. Despite the fact that only half of them are knowledgeable in the use of media and have concerns about some negative effects of e-learning on students, they still believed in the usefulness of e-learning in science educa-tion. Hence, more related research is recommended to further corroborate the findings of this study. © 2021, Adam Marszalek Publishing House. All rights reserved.

The Application of Social Marketing to Change Smoking Behavior of Students in Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools in Aceh

BACKGROUND: Smokers among students have increased from year to year. Various attempts have been made, one of which is by implementing social marketing to change the smoking behavior of students in Islamic boarding schools in Aceh. The lack of knowledge about health and the dangers of smoking is thought to shape smoking behavior among Islamic boarding school students in Aceh.
 AIM: To find out the perceptions of the pesantren on the use of the application of social marketing to change smoking behavior of students in traditional islamic boarding schools in Aceh.
 METHODS: This study uses a qualitative descriptive phenomenological method. Phenomenology studies in this research attempt to describe the relationship between the application of social marketing, social meaning, and smoking behavior among students. Data collection is done by observation, document analysis, and deep interviews. In-depth interviews were conducted on 25 informants who were selected by purposive sampling. Data analysis was performed using thematic content analysis techniques, a method to explain the content of findings in accordance with a predetermined theme.
 RESULTS: The results of the study show that smoking behavior among students has been carried out early on, especially in stressful conditions and having problems. The application of social marketing has not been effective because, in several Boarding Schools in Aceh, there has not been a sign of a smoking ban in Islamic Boarding Schools. Most of the students in the Islamic boarding school were not aware of the Indonesian Ulema Council fatwa and the customary rules regarding smoking bans. The Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools stated that there is no sign of a smoking ban in the Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools environment. The understanding of the MUI fatwa and qanuns regarding smoking prohibition is also lacking, and the students also do not study the Al-Qur’an and Hadith about smoking prohibition. The results of the interview also stated that the Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools agreed to intervene with the use of social marketing to Change Smoking Behaviors of Students in Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools in Aceh.
 CONCLUSION: The application of social marketing has not been effective in changing the smoking behavior of students in Aceh. The application of social marketing needs to be supported by internal and external Islamic Boarding Schools.

Teacher-student relationships: An influence on the English teaching-learning process

There are two main purposes navigated in this study; first of all, it was carried out to investigate the teacher-student relationship; secondly, it was also conducted to find out whether there was a correlation between teacher-student relationship and English teaching-learning process. A number of 14 teachers and 43 students participated in this study; they are from two publish junior high schools in Aceh, Indonesia. Questionnaires for the students and interviews with the teachers were used to discover the influence of the relationship between English teachers and students, and the problems that students faced during their interactions with the teachers. There were twenty-two items in the questionnaire and five questions in the interviews that the participants needed to answer. The collected data from the questionnaire were then analysed by using a Likert scale and the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, meanwhile, the data from the interviews were analysed by following the stages of Miles and Huberman‘s(1994) model. In the first junior high school, a significant correlation appeared between the teacher-student relationship and teaching-learning process, with the raw score of 0.745 that refers to a high correlation. The tcount was higher than the ttable (4.784≥2.100). However, at second junior high school, had no significant correlation detected between the two variables with the raw score of 0,401 that referred to moderate correlation, where tcount was lower than ttable (2.004≤2.097). This research is expected to have a beneficial impact on the English teaching-learning process especially in the areas of the two schools, where this study took place, as well as the teachers and educators from other institutions spread in Aceh and Indonesia in general.

Empowering Education: Exploring Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Vocational Schools

Teaching is indeed a complex provision, which requires teachers being competent in many respects. They should be very knowledgeable in subjects they teach; they should also acquire skills in transferring their subject matters; they need to be skillful in classroom management, and are capable of designing and developing teaching materials. For that reasons, teachers should always engage in professional development to guarantee their best performance. Understanding teachers’ ways of classroom practices is the first step for teachers’ professional development. Therefore, it is timely to conduct a classroom research to explore teachers’ performance, and thus this research explored teachers’ classroom practices in six vocational schools in Aceh. The data was collected mainly through observation of the instructional process in the classroom and in the workshop. The research found several effective attributes of teachers, such as creative, interactive, democratic, intelligent, smart, and well-prepared teachers. The study also identified ‘negative’ teachers’ attributes, such as authoritative, dominated, and withdrawn teachers.

The Early Preventive Effort of Narcotic Abuse at Senior High School (SMA) In Aceh Besar And Sabang (A study according to Islamic law)

Efforts to prevent narcotics abuse, especially for teenagers, are very necessary. bearing in mind the conditions in Indonesian society, the use of narcotics is not only committed by adults, but it’s also practiced by teenagers who are schooling. Thus, protecting young people who are still in school-age becomes an obligation that cannot be abandoned, both individuals and society. On the one hand, a lot of thoughts and efforts have been made related to the prevention of narcotics, starting from the national program that forms a special agency to deal with narcotics (National Narcotics Agency) to non-governmental organizations. However, narcotics abuse still occurs in the community, including among students. Therefore, preventive action is needed to break narcotics abuse, especially in the school environment. The High Schools in Aceh, especially Aceh Besar and Sabang, have made some efforts, such as a. urine test; b. counseling/guidance and c. school rules and regulations. These efforts have had a positive impact on students. However, environmental conditions may influence them to trap in narcotics abuse, in case if the control from the various community is not done. These prevention efforts, according to Islamic law are part of amar ma'ruf nahi mungkar.

EXPLORING THE USEFULNESS OF RICH MATHEMATICAL TASKS TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ REFLECTIVE THINKING

Promoting reflective thinking in daily teaching practice is vital to prepare students to live in a more challenging world. Rich tasks are one of the promising tasks that could be used as pedagogy trend to develop students' reflective thinking. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe the usefulness of rich mathematical tasks including how teachers use them in their teaching practice and the improvement of students’ reflective thinking following the rich tasks based instruction. This study employed a teaching experiment within a case study design. Participants were 28 Year 7 students of one the junior high school in Aceh, Indonesia. The instrument of the study is three valid and reliable rich mathematical tasks administered to the students through student worksheet. The results of the study show that rich tasks provided students with the opportunity to solve real-world problems by questioning their understanding and thinking reflectively. It also found that most students in the classroom were able to achieve the low level of reflective thinking with classroom mean score is 60. This value fairly enough since reflective thinking is a complicated concept. Subsequently, the results indicate the rich mathematical tasks approach hold potential in enhancing students’ reflective thinking ability.

EFL Teachers’ Perceptions: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Integrated Skills Approach (ISA) Implementation at Senior High Schools in Aceh

Integrated Skills Approach (henceforth ISA) is valuably considered to practice all language skills simultaneously with wide and various activities offered to expose learners to the real communicative purpose. This research aims to find out teachers’ perceptions of challenges and coping strategies in implementing ISA at their respective schools. The research participants were chosen by using purposive sampling, in which the information towards six English teachers from different Senior High School in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar by using unstructured interviews. The findings revealed that generally, most teachers had positive perceptions towards ISA. Only one teacher’s face constrains in applying ISA. Furthermore, the teachers also faced challenges in applying integrated skills approach in the classroom, those are; students’ lack of vocabulary, school environment and facilities, and teachers’ difficulties in designing activity/material. Nevertheless, the teachers have their strategies to cope with those challenges such as; enriching vocabulary through flashcards, grouping students randomly, preparing their own material and equipment, motivating them by giving interesting short movies and games and expanding their knowledge more about integrated skills approach.

The development of learning tools using treffinger model assisted by geogebra to enhance students’ creativity

The development of the Treffinger model learning tools in enhancing the creativity of high school students assisted by GeoGebra software aimed to produce valid, practical and effective mathematics learning tools. This study was development research adopted the development model of Dick and Carey. The subjects were 22 Grade 11 students in one of the Islamic High Schools in Aceh• The data was the validation results and the results of the practical and effectiveness tests. Based on the validity test, the average scores of the lesson plan, student worksheet and test of learning outcome were 3.89, 3.82 and 3.55, respectively, indicating that the tools developed were valid. Based on the results of the pilot test, the practicality criteria were met based on the results of the observer’s assessment of the learning implementation categorized as practical and the mean of the students’ activities also satisfied practical criteria. The effectiveness criteria were also fulfilled based on the scores of the group worksheet and the scores of the student learning outcome test (meeting the minimum criteria of mastery learning). Hence, the learning tools developed were valid, practical and effective.