{"id":2463,"date":"2024-10-19T16:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2024-10-19T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:58:53","slug":"team-ssm-and-seeds-partners-training-elementary-teachers-in-marginalized-communities-throughout-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2024\/10\/team-ssm-and-seeds-partners-training-elementary-teachers-in-marginalized-communities-throughout-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Team SSM and SEEDS partners training elementary teachers in marginalized communities throughout Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Education is Iterative<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

SEEDS partners with Yayasan Tunas Aksara (YTA) to promote literacy in Indonesia.  YTA operates a program called \u201cSaya Suka Membaca\u201d (SSM), meaning \u201cI Like to Read\u201d.  SSM was originally conceived as a teacher training program.  SSM staff designed and distributed their own contextualized curriculum, auxiliary materials, training, and mentoring, to elementary grade-1 teachers so that they could teach reading well throughout their teaching tenure.  Their goals for students were simple: (a) read fluently  (b) understand what was read  (c) enjoy reading.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SSM staff have continued to improve their practices according to the needs or challenges they encountered in the field, as good educators do. They streamlined processes, added new positions, made more books, corrected old ones, etc. In other words, YTA has reiterated SSM repeatedly since its inception.  YTA has built a spiral staircase, if you will.  Yet the big question is whether that spiral staircase performs as intended-Is SSM<\/em> effective?<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SSM team has worked hard to answer that question.\u00a0 They developed a test to collect pre- and post-treatment data.\u00a0 They are currently proposing to conduct a two-year research project that will examine: (a) quantitative baseline\/endline data from all current participating schools (hopefully compared against equivalent non-treatment schools in similar districts); (b) qualitative data from SSM participants to better understand what underlies the quantitative data.\u00a0 That data will be used to inform the next iteration of SSM. The desire to reiterate does not come from a vacuum.\u00a0 The Indonesian government has recently prioritized 21st<\/sup> century skills for its future workforce.\u00a0 SSM plans to change with the times so that the next generation of Indonesian youth can (a) read fluently; (b) understand what was read; (c) enjoy reading; and (d) enter the working world with related 21st<\/sup> century skills.\u00a0 Here\u2019s to climbing the spiral staircase<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEEDS partners with Yayasan Tunas Aksara (YTA) to promote literacy in Indonesia.\u00a0 YTA operates a program called \u201cSaya Suka Membaca\u201d (SSM), meaning \u201cI Like to Read\u201d.\u00a0 SSM was originally conceived as a teacher training program.\u00a0 SSM staff designed and distributed their own contextualized curriculum, auxiliary materials, training, and mentoring, to elementary grade-1 teachers so that they could teach reading well throughout their teaching tenure.\u00a0 Their goals for students were simple: (a) read fluently\u00a0 (b) understand what was read\u00a0 (c) enjoy reading.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seeds-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}