A Teacher and Bakso Seller

HIS name is Juli Edi Sarwono. He is a Mathematics teacher at SMPN 19 Purworejo and a very simple man. We can learn a lot about him from his simplicity. Despite being busy teaching he also sells bakso (meat balls) around the area where he lives. When he gets home from school he sells bakso from 16.00 to about 23.00 in the evening. Although he is really busy, he doesn't let his students down. In fact, he's one of the most creative teachers in his school, SMPN 19.

Pak Eko Teaching Mathmatics

One of the ways he shows his creativity is in making classroom displays, even though they only remain up for a few days because he has to take account of the other teachers teaching in the same classroom. But all the same, when he takes the displays down from the classroom walls he makes them into a large book, like the one you can see (on the other page). Besides this he also finds time to make up trial examination questions for his grade 9 students, who are going to do the national exams.

And that's not all! When he teaches the final periods of the day he quite often takes the students out into the school yard to learn, knowing that by this time they are often getting bored sitting in class. And he gets good results from the SMPN 19 students in the national exams. Only one student so far in the school has ever got a perfect score of 10 and that was one of Pak Eko's Math students. Pak Eko, as he is familiarly called, says that he's only able to do these things because of what he learned during the DBE3 foundation module training he took part in some time ago.