FULL DAY SCHOOL AND IMPLEMENTATION

By: Wahyudi Oetomo

Innovation in education is a necessity, because the dynamics of life experience. Renewal of curricula, teaching methods, or management of education will continue to be done in line with the changing times.

The emergence of various innovations in the world of education should be treated as natural phenomena meet the changing demands of social, economic, cultural, and scientific development. Full enforcement of school day (full day school) in some schools, particularly urban areas, is a small fragment of educational innovation, which aims to improve the quality of education and helping busy parents.

Full day school, adopted from developed countries, such as Japan, European countries and America. In the developed countries the students get more days off. In the summer and their winter holidays each can be up to two months. Two days a week ie on Saturday and Sunday they were off routine. Well, because of lots of holidays, the students in these countries are advised gets an extra lesson. Finally, many schools implement full day school system.

As an educational innovation, the application of full day school must begin with a thorough review of all aspects that come into contact with the application of full day school system. Adoption of various overseas educational praxis must be adapted to the internal conditions and eksterrnal education units. Surabaya City Department of Education policy that "requires" that all schools implement full-day schools (Media, November 2009), according to the author is a policy that is not based on a thorough and in-depth study of the full day school.

Full day school, not just a full day of school, but more than that. There are a few schools implement full day school just talkative, just follow the trend without preparing thoroughly before applying full day school. Load during the curriculum is viewed by many education experts too fat, and getting fatter as a typical curriculum of local schools shall be added to the national curriculum. If the implementation of full day school just based on additional learning time and did not heed the rules of active learning, innovative, creative, and fun (PAIKEM), the implementation of full day school would be a "prison" for learners.

For schools that have implemented full day school but did not prepare all the ideal requirements for a full day of school, such as having a comfortable room to live for hours, learning over time believed it would not be effective. In addition to comfortable study space conditions, a full day of learning at the school must apply the principle PAIKEM. Conventional learning, chalk and talk method, verbal lectures, it will be difficult to make lasting learners linger in the study.

Many diagnostic choice in urban schools to implement a full school day is inseparable from the principle of supply and demand, there is demand there is supply. Many old people in big cities who do not have the time to accompany and supervise their children after school, because I was busy with work. When some schools offer a full day of school concepts, not necessarily a lot of older people who are interested to put their children to school a full day. Schools that implement the concept of a full day of school, especially the faith-based schools, selling invaded enthusiasts. Many parents who do not care about the high cost of full day school education. When parents do not have time to supervise their children, school is seen as the safest place for children until their parents come home from work.

If many parents put their children to school full day, simply because the parents do not have enough time watching his children because of busy work, school functions as nothing more than daycare. Parents must complete berfikirnya concept of the existence of full day school. When parents just assume full day school as daycare, parents will not do in-depth review of the quality of the school will be a place of her children's school. Yet there must be a full school day that is not supported by sufficient means to create a fun school, curriculum management even worked potluck.

Some schools that have implemented full day, see its existence as part of efforts to help the development of children and parents are busy. In fact, a school, the Jakarta Islamic School (JISC), applying the concept of education "school like at home", such as in the home school. The school brings together the concept of play and learning (active learning fun). Is Al Falah Surabaya junior high school, which also implement full-day, full day denied that schools do not make students feel at home at school because of his learning hours is too long. According to them, they still play a lot of students in the school until the afternoon, when it was time to go home.

 Various attempts were made to implement full-day school, so students do not feel quickly bored in school. Start of applying concepts learned in bermain.dengan using a variety of props to lay regular tutoring lessons after school child taken into the curriculum. If there are schools that implement a full day, but does not create a fun learning environment, the classroom will be turned into a "prison" for children.

Full school day, developed into an exclusive school, because it is only able to be reached by the student who has rich parents. Had a full school day focused on the improvement of quality of education, not just to replace the role of parents when the parents are busy working, then access for disadvantaged students should be widened. Ideally, the school is implementing full day, orientation to improve the quality of education is the main goal, not replace the function of promoting the service when busy working parents.

Another thing, which until now questioned by many observers of the child, that the full school day is considered to reduce the time to socialize with people, especially with children his age. The concept of full-day school children feared berintelektual scored high but low social skills. To minimize the negative impact of a full school day, full-day school curriculum should balance the intellectual development of the sphere of social development. The activities carried out during the day, should be directed to activities to hone emotional and interactive capabilities fellow students. For example, drama activities, sports, or religious activities.

When parents choose a school full day as a place to learn his son, the consequences that arise is the small intensity of the child and parent meetings. For parents who do not include people who are busy, put their children to school choice full day a consequence the decrease in the interaction between children and parents. Parents should take advantage of the rest of the time meeting with children through the creation of quality communication, but little quality. Planting value continuous grown in the school should be implemented at home.

Full school day, the school should not only full day. There are many things that must be prepared before applying full day school system. Readiness curriculum, quality of teachers, facilities, and commitment of the parents. If some factors are not ready, do not be forced to implement full-day system. When applying the concept of full day school just follow the trend, so the only full day school will "jail" for learners.