"The program is a virtual learning series to hone the educators' non-technical skills to support a student-focused learning method in accordance with the Freedom in Learning Curriculum," the Director General of Teachers and Educators at the ministry, Iwan Syahril, noted in his written statement received here on Tuesday.
The Teacher's Spirit Program was first launched in June 2021.
Syahril noted that the program was one of the proofs of successful collaboration between the government and private entity.
"This collaboration and cooperation can be (pursued) because the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry and HP Indonesia believed that development and improvement of Indonesia's future generation is being (influenced) by digital transformation, as one of the many factors," he stated.
Since 2005, HP had taken various initiatives to improve the quality of education, including by establishing the first episode of the Teacher's Spirit Program in the last year, he pointed out.
"From the data we received, the Teacher's Spirit Program assisted in improving the skills of some 160 thousand teachers," he stated.
HP also collaborated to conduct Innovative Learning Transformation in schools.
"Thus, we want to express gratitude to HP for the valuable collaboration and cooperation," he added.
Innovative Learning Transformation was a framework to prepare schools to integrate with changes in the 21st century.
The framework supported national schools with an effective and modern teaching and learning method while still taking Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Compassion, Critical Thinking, and Computational Logic (6C) into account.
Syahril reminded the teachers to utilize the Teacher's Spirit Program as a way to learn and improve themselves.
On the same occasion, the director of early education and public education of the directorate general of teachers and educators at the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry, Santi Ambarukmi, noted that the second Teacher's Spirit Program aimed to train Indonesian teachers to implement the Freedom in Learning curriculum.
"There are three expectations of this program, that is to compel teachers and educators to understand some nontechnical skills that support the implementation of the Freedom in Learning curriculum. This is also to compel the teachers and educators to (comprehend) the use of technology in teaching and learning in the classroom and compel teachers and educators to collaborate and inspire each other," she remarked.
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Translator: Indriani, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Sri Haryati
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