Education is the key for the life of a nation because qualified education bears competitive generation to answer the world challenge. The government gives attention to education but policies have often changed, the quality of education stakeholders needs to be improved, and education facilities and infrastructure are not evenly distributed yet. However, the quality of educators and teaching staff in educational institutions is one of the keys to guarantee a good education process and good quality of the alumnus, so the efforts to improve human resources for educators need to be supported.
Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta as a human resource development institution that pays attention to education issues-initiated training to improve the quality of educators and teaching staff of Banguntapan Christian High School, especially related with teamwork and work ethic. This activity was held at Joglo Pasinaon, Kalasan, as a part of the Education program in the Advanced Technology Era and a form of inter-institutional networking (28/6/2022).
In the opening session, Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta performed a short fragment through dialogues among eyes, feet, hands, and mouth which claimed to be the most important part among others. However, they are members of the body with different functions, they still need each other. It means that each part of an organization with different functions, they are still an integrated system to move the organization.
The next presentation, Ariani Narwastujati, S.Pd., S.S., M.Pd., as the Executive Director of Stube HEMAT guided the teachers and employees of the school to answer questionnaires to map each other's personality, regarding work ethic and teamwork. This part helped the participants to learn their personalities and how to behave when facing problems and interacting with their work partners, how to behave under work pressure and life changes, how to make decisions among choices, and how to optimize their talents.
Then, Trustha Rembaka, S.Th., as the coordinator of Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta guided the participants to map the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges at BOPKRI Banguntapan High School. In this activity they found the combination between former teachers and new teachers, as capital for teaching balance, the weaknesses arise when teachers come and go because the jobs elsewhere, opportunities appear from their networks that can be optimized to develop and promote schools, also find the challenges how to manage alumni to support the school. These findings help them to have a new spirit and commitment to improve work ethic and collaboration, take advantage of technology, social media, and mass media to promote the school, and collect alumni data and potential networks.
To respond to this activity, the principal of the school, Endah Nursinta S., M.Pd., said, “Stube HEMAT is one of the institutions that support the development of teacher resources and school employees. I hope that the collaboration will continue to level up school competence through this training.”
Advanced education is the result of the synergy of various parties involved in the world of education, from internal educational institutions and their managers, including teacher and teaching staff, students, parents and institutional managers, the government with policies, monitoring, and evaluation, networks from institutions and personal who interested in education, and the use of technology that supports the achievement of educational goals. ***
