Coach: Umi Syifa Khusnuzon School: Sinar Cendekia Islamic School, Tangerang Selatan

EduLEAD Benchmark: 21st Century Leadership

Indicator: 1.1 Engages with forces that drive school change and transformation and manage the change process , 1.4 Identifying, managing and engaging other stakeholders

Umi Syifa Khusnuzon is the Vice Principal (Student Affairs) at Sinar Cendekia Islamic School. As the school plans for the migration from classroom-based teaching and learning to online learning, the SLT developed a strategy for improving student attendance in online classes.

Since the start of the new school year, attendance to online classes at Sinar Cendekia averages above 80%.

Ms Umi shared four conditions that she believe contribute to a high engagement in online learning at her school:

1. A morning routine that creates predictability. At 7am every morning, students perform Dhuha prayers at home and at 7.30am students meet with their homeroom teacher.

2. An emphasis on making lessons interesting. Teachers are all trained to use a variety of online learning applications. Reduced lesson material to reduce student ‘online’ fatigue.

3. An emphasis on ‘readiness’. The school places emphasis on the readiness of teachers to teach (lesson planning, preparing materials), readiness of students to learn, and readiness of parents to support learning. Teachers use Google Classroom to make announcements about upcoming classes.

4. An emphasis on data collection and sharing. Attendance to online classes is taken at the beginning and at the end of every lesson. Each day teachers submit all data, which is then shared with parents on a daily basis. At the end of each week, SLT team reviews all attendance data.

5. An emphasis on student reflection. Students do reflections on their learning at various stages of an online class. Through the reflections, teachers also help learners develop gratitude (for being able to still learn, despite COVID19).

Coach: Rustiyani School: Iqra’ Islamic Integrated High School (SMA IT Iqra’), Bengkulu

EduLEAD Benchmark: Leading Learning

Indicator 2.1 Leadership of Learning

At Iqra’ Islamic Integrated High School in Bengkulu, online learning is done via Zoom Meeting. To increase student engagement, the ‘break out’ room (BOR) feature available on Zoom Meeting is used. In her presentation, Ms Rustiyani spoke about a few advantages of using the BOR feature:

1) Host may broadcast messages to all rooms. Teachers may use this for announcements while students are discussing in individual break out rooms.

2) Host may visit each break out room to monitor discussions. Teachers need to do this often to ensure all discussions are productive.

3) Students in break out rooms may share screens. This allows students to present their work to peers and get feedback.

4) Students may use the ‘annotate’ function in break out rooms as tools for collaborative learning.

Some activities that teachers at SMA IT Iqra’ regularly using break out rooms on Zoom:

1. Group Discussion

2. Think-Pair-Share

3. Show & Tell

4. Role-Playing

5. Problem Solving

6. Peer Feedback

(Note - this is in Bahasa Indonesia, translations will be available later)