UN dan INTERGRITAS BANGSA

Ujian Nasional Berintegritas

By Leonardus Nana (Pendidik pada SMA Katolik Fides Quaerens Intellectum Kefamenanu

Ujian Nasional adalah sebuah kegiatan evaluasi yang ditujukan untuk mengukur tingkat pencapaian belajar seorang siswa dari sebuah sekolah menengah, baik itu sekolah menengah pertama atau SMP maupun sekolah menengah atas atau SMA. Ada pro dan kontra tentang perlu dan pentingnya sebuah Ujian Nasional, namun sewajarnya jika Ujian Nasional tetap dilaksanakan karena pada dasarnay Ujian Nasional tidak hanya bertujuan untuk mengukur keberhasilan belajar seorang siswa saja. Tetapi juga untuk memetakan pemerataan dan perkembangan pembangunan pendidikan serta keberhasilan proses pelaksanaan dan serta kualitas proses pendidikan di suatu daerah.

Keberhasilan belajar seorang siswa biasanya diukur oleh nilai atau prestasi yang dia raih. Prestasi baik tidak hanya merupakan harapan peserta didik saja, tetapi juga harapan setiap orang seperti orangtua, guru, sekolah, masyarakat dan pemerintah. Guna mengukir sebuah, siswa harus tekun belajar guna membentuk diri menjadi siswa pintar, guru harus menyediakan diri sebagai partner belajar siswa yang inovatif dan kreatif, orangtua harus selalu mendukung setiap proses belajar siswa dan pemerintah harus memberikan dukungan penuh dengan menyediakan sarana dan prasara pendidikan, guru dan pendidik yang berkualifikasi serta memberi dukungan financial dan managerial.

Namun, Ujian Nasional sesungguhnya tidak hanya untuk mengukur sebuah pencapaian belajar para peserta didik serta kerja keras dari guru, orangtua,  masyarakat dan pemerintah. Lebih dari itu, Ujian Nasional telah menjadi sebuah media untuk mengukur tingkat pembangunan karakter dan integritas bangsa.

Integritas merupakan sebuah keharusan jaman ini karena tanpa integritas, bangsa ini akan bertumbuh menjadi bangsa yang kompromistis, bangsa yang bertumbuh dengan mengabaikan kerja keras, persaingan, dan kejujuran. Hal ini telah dibaca oleh Amy Rees Anderson  dengan menulis “We live in a world where integrity isn’t talked about nearly enough. We live in a world where “the end justifies the means” has become an acceptable school of thought for far too many.”

Tidak dimungkiri bahwa demi meraih sebuah niali baik atau sebuah pengakuan terhadap keberhasilan pencapaian proses belajar dan pembangunan pendidikan di suatu daerah, terkadang sebagian orang menghalalkan banyak cara termasuk cara-cara yang tidak berkarakter dan beretika seperti menyontek, membocorkan soal, menyebarkan kunci serta menyediakan joki.

Sebuah hasil baik adalah tujuan dari setiap kerja, tetapi hasil itu sesungguhnya tidak bernilai jika diperoleh melalaui cara-cara yang tidak berintegritas, bukan? Amy Rees Anderson dalam www.amyreesanderson.com/blog menulis If I could teach only one value to live by, it would be this: Success will come and go, but integrity is forever.

Integritas harus menjadi semangat dan jiwa setiap kerja sebab setiap orang yang berintegritas biasanya akan selalu memberdayakan diri sebelum melakukan sesuatu (think before you leap). Orang yang telah memberdayakan diri akan mampu melakukan pekerjaannya dan sebuah hasil yang luar biasa akan menajdi haknya. Kata orang bijak, hanya orang sinpersiapkan dirting yang menginginkan sebuah hasil yang luar biasa hanya dengan melakukan hal-hal yang biasa saja.

Seiring perkembangan pembangunan, Ujian Nasional sekarang ini dapat dilakukan secara konvensional atau Paper Based Test (NPBT) dan juga Computer Based Test (NCBT) atau dikenal dengan ujian online. Apapun cara ujiannya, integritas harus dijadikan semangat untuk mengerjakannya.

Dengan integritas, kita akan tumbuh menjadi sebuah bangsa yang besar, kuat dan berkarakter. Bagaimana pendapat anda?

I LOVE GURU

I LOVE GURU

By Leonardus Nana (SMAK Fides Quaerens Intellectum-Kefamenanu)

In commemorating Hari Pendidikan Nasional or the national education day on May 2^nd  2016, Anies Baswedan, The National Education and Culture Ministry said that good quality of human resources is determined by the quality of the education of the nation.

The general purpose of education is the full development of the potential of each individual. The fully developed potential of every individual will collaborate to form the quality of the nation human resources. Therefore, Anies Baswedan emphasized that educated and enlightened man is the key to the progress of nation. The quality and level of education have a major impact on the space of opportunity to move forward and prosper. So we must make sure, he advised that every people should have the same chance to have good quality of education in life. The good quality of education can enable every learner to gain what they need to greet the global era, he added.

In responding to the speech of Anies Baswedan above, Frans Leburaya, the Governor of south-east Nusa Tenggara province, launched a program named “I LOVE GURU.”

There is no any detailed information about the launched program I LOVE GURU, but I think the keen consideration must be that Guru is the first front-liner of the job of educating and enlightening the next generation of Indonesia.

The question is who is Guru and why should Guru be loved? This is not an easy question nowadays, perhaps.

Who is Guru?

Guru is a person skilled in something who gives advices to someone else. Many people will come to Guru as he is naturally trained to listen to people and give them advice about their problems. Guru can help someone to have focus or give attention to deal with their problems such as the problem of how to live a life of community, problem of how to perform better and also the problem of feeling courage in life. A Guru can encourage them to encounter any situation, problem or thing that needs attention and needs capability to deal with or solve.

Guru of the above model can be found at home as a father, in society/community as a leader and in school or college as a teacher.

Why should Guru be loved?

The program of I LOVE GURU is dedicated to Guru who has professional knowledge and skill gained through formal preparation and experience. This Guru provides personal caring service to pupils by diagnosing their needs and by planning, selecting and using methods and evaluation procedures designed to promote learning.

This Guru is called teacher whose job is to teach in school or college. The job of teaching is all about motivating and promoting students to learn. Learning to be educated and enlightened, learning to build their character and to get knowledge or skill, and also learning to prepare themselves for a job or activity.

A child cannot drink medicine willingly even though it can relief his pain. On the same way, most of students have not made learning their responsibilities. But Guru can come to help them to aware that it is only through education ones can learn to find the beauty in their dreams and also it is by learning, ones can gain what they need to greet their future.

To do this, Guru cannot base his diagnose, planning, methodology and evaluation on his professional knowledge and skills only. But also Guru can build good positive qualities of relationship with his/her learners. This good qualities of relationship can set a learning experience approachable and inviting the students to learn to recognize the quality within them to become excellent.

Guru can help the next generation of Indonesia to be fully supported to achieve the following components of skills which they need to greet the global era:

a.    Good Character or good value of life like honesty, integrity and morality

b.    Literacy Skill or the capability to apply what is learnt in life

c.    Competency or creativity to do something well

Therefore, Guru preserves right to be loved because Guru is the first front liner who adds value to the nation by developing its people. Well-developed people are good treasure which add value to the advancement of the nation.

How to love Guru

Guru is not a superman. Guru should be recognized as a person who wants to be loved to love. When Guru is loved, he/she will get enough capacity to love the others, especially students.

There are many ways to love Guru. The government and society have their own ways to love Guru, but a Guru will, of course be fully loved if he/she has the rights as stated in UU No. 14 tahun 2015 about Guru dan Dosen or as ones that we read below:

1.    Teachers have the right to work in surroundings that are sanitary, healthful and conducive to teaching and learning.

2.    Teachers have right to a reasonable allotment of resources, materials and services of support staff

3.    Teachers have a voice in determining criteria and procedures for the evaluation of professional performance of teachers

4.    Teachers have right to be protected under provisions outlined in contracts of employment with the employer,

5.    Teachers have right to bargain for salaries and working conditions which include fair and equitable grievance procedures,

6.    Teachers have right to receive an adequate income while teaching and upon retirement.

Source: Harian Victory News May 3^rd 2016 and The Declaration forms part of the Constitution of The Alberta Teachers' Association