“It is hard to say, but it real to see” –Ahmad RA-- Teaching and learning are the processes that needed in the aim of improvement and development. The things that become the top level concern in teaching and learning process are the development of students’ knowledge and or ability, commonly called skill. Students are the object of the teaching learning process in old pareadigm of teaching. In the new paradigm of teaching, the students are becoming the subject and object of the teaching and learning process. In this kind of learning paradigm, the students have more activities in the classroom than only listen to the teachers’ explanation about materials of the lesson. This paradigm of teaching model commonly called Student Centered Learning or rephrased as SCL. Nowadays, teachers and all education stakeholders become more concern to the result of the education. As mention before, education and educational process is conductued in the aim of improvement and develpment of the students/learners. The terms improvement and deveopment become a great words such kind of magical words that able to hypnotize many or even most of the teachers work hard and harder to reach both improvemenr and development. The thing that must be the highest concern is about the understanding of the teacher and educators about the term of improvement and development. Improvement and development relate to the quality and the ability of the outcome of the schools. Students ao learners are hoped to have better ability and quality in their knowledge and skill after they graduate from the school. Those terms are a little but to measure by using SCORE or the masrk of the certain tests. But, it is really ironic to see the fact that our education till nowadays still focus to the quality of the outcome by focusing to the improvement and develoopment of the students’ score. Whatever the technique and method are used by teachers, thay only focus on the students’ score without considering the students’ ability, skills and knowledge that basicly those are more important than only a score. There are many ideas and opinion that score represents quality, that is true for several certain condition. But, this idea becomes something dangerous for learners because in the next level of their live does not relate to the score itself, but skills and ability are more needed then. The educational system in this country seems turns to create a new learning model which is called Score-centered learning (SCL). The fact says that, since the National Examination becomes the last requirement for the graduation and determination whether the students are success or fail, the teachers seems loose their orientation in giving their maximum ability to improve and develop their students. Score becomes the biggest thing that they must consider in order to claim that their students are success. In every level of education in this country seems to be influenced and hypnotized by the power of SCORE. It is really ironic, in other side the Education aims to create a great generation with their ability and skills, but the fact shows that the EDUCATORS are only focus on the SCORE that does not represent the QUALITY, SKILL and ABILITY perfectly. The Government has chaged the curricullum for amny times, we have remembered about the Competency Based Curricullum (CBC) in 2004. It was such kind of a nice atmosphere for Educational sysytem in the Country, because this curricullum is based on the competency development and improvement of the learners. But the fact is really ironic, the assessment system that was used by the government is the same with the previous curricullum, that was only focus on the Cognitive aspect, not on the Psicomotoric aspect as the base of the Competency. The Design of the curricullum is great, but the appliation of the curricullum still keeps many problems in many sides. We can imagine, though we change till a hundred times, the curricullum and the result of the education will still fight each other, because the problem actually is not on the curricullum but on the Application on the Curricullum. Since the Curricullum nowadays is changed to KTSP, the school with all educators has more right to be craetive in improving the basic curricullum that has been given by the Government. But The last moment we see, everywhere in this country, before and after the National Examination, always become the shocking moment for The Minister of National education, every schools, teachers/educators, students and or even their parents. They only care and worry about SCORE, and no worry about the FUTURE. When the percentage is good the country seems in a great happiness, but when the percentage is not satisfiying, the Government will try to find the Solution HOW TO INCREASE THE STUDENTS’ SCORE, and not about HOW TO INCREASE THE STUDENTS ABILITY AND SKILLS for their future. What do you think about this?
Ahmad RA
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