CURRENT ISSUES IN PRIMARY EDUCATION (4 Credits)

Learning Outcome:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: : Identify some current issues in primary education in Indonesia (general issues, curriculum, method, and technology and internationalization); Solve some problems of primary education in Indonesia; Analyze the cause and impacts of some problems of primary education in Indonesia; Design practical steps to improve the quality of primary education.

Topics:

1. Good environmental learning;
2. The need of SMSC;
3. Students with special needs in ordinary school;
4. Why students only play;
5. Mobility program and field trip;
6. Accountability in assessment and other activities;
7. English language as medium of instruction;
8. Milenial generation and technology-based teaching;
9. Literacy movement in milenial generation;
10. The unigueness of students with multiple intelligences;
11. Discipline in education;
12. Homework for students;
13. Politics in primary education.