English Education Department Students Field Trip at SMA Nasima: Practices from Successful Implementation of a Professional In-Service Teacher

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TBI IAIN Kudus landed at Nasima High School on Monday, May 22. The purpose of the trip to Nasima High School for the 98 TBI students who participated was to learn more about the school's administration, curriculum, and extracurriculars, including habituation.

The event began with an opening ceremony held in the Nasima High School hall. Before the presentation of the material, there were speeches from each institution, IAIN Kudus and NASIMA Foundation. The first speech was given by the Principal of Nasima High School, Mrs. Sri Utami, S.Pd. Followed by speeches from Dr. H. Nur Abadi S.Ag. M.Pd and Mrs. Setyoningsih, M.Pd, as representatives from IAIN Kudus.

In her remarks, Mrs. Sri Utami, S.Pd. expressed deep appreciation and pleasure to be visited by students and lecturers of TBI IAIN Kudus. She added, "Our school was established to instill character and religious values in Nasima schools, by the directions of the Nasima school founder, which is based on nationalism and religion."

While in the speech delivered by Dr. H. Nur Abadi S.Ag. M.Pd, he stated, ".....This school is the national level, and I remember when the Nasima school was built, President Jokowi attended the groundbreaking of its construction, so it is useful to seek information and ask directly about the education system at Nasima High School... .."

Following the delivery of the speeches was the main agenda, which consisted of 3 presentation sessions from Nasima regarding school management, curriculum policies, and academic achievement-supporting activities.

The first material shows that Nasima has academic rules that highlight nationalism and religion; in addition to the morning routine to encourage discipline, there are student pocketbooks accompanied by mentoring and assessment of educational needs. Nasima is an IT-based school that develops academic information system applications, namely SIANASIMA.

The second material states that Nasima is collaborating with resources from Cambridge English, Math, and Science. It was also explained that Nasima currently uses 2 curricula; grades 11 and 12 still use K13, while grade 10 uses KUMER.

The third material explains that there are stages of preparation, implementation, evaluation, and practice in academic activities at Nasima, with each teacher using Cambridge books and self-arranged modules called ECP.

"...from the presentation delivered by the deputy head of curriculum to the English teacher from the school, it can provide a general picture for us as TBI students. How is the management of the curriculum system at school, learning English in class, and managing English extracurriculars? That way, it can provide benefits and new knowledge for us as TBI students to prepare knowledge related to education management, especially in teaching English because we are prospective educators or English teachers....." said Noor Azizah, one of the TBI students as KKL participants.

After visiting Nasima High School, TBI IAIN Kudus continued their visit to their next destination. It is hoped that students will have received information related to school management, curriculum policies, and activities, including habituation at SMA Nasima, along with additional knowledge that will certainly be useful as teaching provision for TBI students.

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