Blog, Monday June 17, 2013
Field trip to school:
SMA pesantren terpadu hayyatan toyyibah
School Tuition is 22 million rupiah
Room and Board: Each month 1.9 million
The government does not provide any financial support for Pesantren, an all boys Muslin boarding school about 3 hours from Cimahi.. The school is responsible for obtaining its own funding.
Pesantren is a type of Islamic school with a special curriculum, which is mostly fifty percent religious studies and the other academic disciplines. Before it was not a popular school in Indonesia. However, recently, they have developed a an interesting curriculum based on the credit system like we have in the United States. They have also created partnerships with international schools in Southeast Asia and in the United States.
On my way into the school, I met a student named Fauzi who was picking up his diploma. He shared with me in perfect English that he had spent a year in Oregon. This is a great value to the educational experience of students at the school, as they experience international perspectives in education. As we continued to walk to the hall for the welcome speech I thought about our public schools in the United States While, this international experience is available through a private Muslim school, I could not help feeling it provides a significant, distinct advantage for some students . Studying abroad while in high school enable s the student to learn about another culture and hone their language skills. This means they go off to college already bilingual!!!
Even students in Indonesian public schools are fulling the important global competency of learning world languages early. Most students start studying English and German by the 4th grade. This early exposure to language is important since we live in a global community where borders are ceasing to exist!!!
In America, this opportunity is not readily available to all our students in elementary. In the United States the average public school does not provide world languages, despite the research that shows studying a language improves student abilities in other disciplines, such as math and English comprehension. In Chicago, there are very few world language programs in schools that are in high poverty areas. The few that are available reside on the north side in affluent neighborhoods. Most studentsl have an opportunity to take a world language in in high school, but this is such a late start. The work to obtain good conversation skills becomes a mini mountain for most students. This is definitely an area public schools need to seriously revisit if we are to seriously CULTIVATE globally competent students.
INDONESIAN Cultural FACT
Traditional Martial arts in Indonesia is called pencak Silat (it is required at the Pesantren school, but offered as an option in Indonesian public school.)
Field trip to school:
SMA pesantren terpadu hayyatan toyyibah
School Tuition is 22 million rupiah
Room and Board: Each month 1.9 million
The government does not provide any financial support for Pesantren, an all boys Muslin boarding school about 3 hours from Cimahi.. The school is responsible for obtaining its own funding.
Pesantren is a type of Islamic school with a special curriculum, which is mostly fifty percent religious studies and the other academic disciplines. Before it was not a popular school in Indonesia. However, recently, they have developed a an interesting curriculum based on the credit system like we have in the United States. They have also created partnerships with international schools in Southeast Asia and in the United States.
On my way into the school, I met a student named Fauzi who was picking up his diploma. He shared with me in perfect English that he had spent a year in Oregon. This is a great value to the educational experience of students at the school, as they experience international perspectives in education. As we continued to walk to the hall for the welcome speech I thought about our public schools in the United States While, this international experience is available through a private Muslim school, I could not help feeling it provides a significant, distinct advantage for some students . Studying abroad while in high school enable s the student to learn about another culture and hone their language skills. This means they go off to college already bilingual!!!
Even students in Indonesian public schools are fulling the important global competency of learning world languages early. Most students start studying English and German by the 4th grade. This early exposure to language is important since we live in a global community where borders are ceasing to exist!!!
In America, this opportunity is not readily available to all our students in elementary. In the United States the average public school does not provide world languages, despite the research that shows studying a language improves student abilities in other disciplines, such as math and English comprehension. In Chicago, there are very few world language programs in schools that are in high poverty areas. The few that are available reside on the north side in affluent neighborhoods. Most studentsl have an opportunity to take a world language in in high school, but this is such a late start. The work to obtain good conversation skills becomes a mini mountain for most students. This is definitely an area public schools need to seriously revisit if we are to seriously CULTIVATE globally competent students.
INDONESIAN Cultural FACT
Traditional Martial arts in Indonesia is called pencak Silat (it is required at the Pesantren school, but offered as an option in Indonesian public school.)