Education process in university should contribute in a balanced competency mastery between knowledge, skills, and soft skills. The elements of soft skills are crucial in achieving and functionalization of cognitive and psychomotor. Hence, the university as vocational education organizer is responsible for developing the input capabilities of students from various institution including SMK (Vocational High School). This paper describes early study or called preliminary study to develop a model of PBL integrated toward the enhancement of soft skills of high order thinking for vocational students in patisserie expertise. This preliminary study collects early information of patisserie learning in universities and the need of soft skills in various industries in patisserie. This information is important to develop the initial design that describes the integration of PBL with soft skills of high order thinking in patisserie learning, so the role of lecturer and students during the learning process is investigated. This model will contribute to the growth for high order thinking of soft skills in vocational student that is important for success.
This study aims to describe the readiness of the teachers teaching the Culinary productive subjects in implementing the 2013 Curriculum at Vocational High Schools (VHSs) in Yogyakarta Municipality on the extent of 1) planning the learning process, 2) implementation of learning, 3) assessment of learning outcomes, and 4) identifying the obstacles the teachers deal with and the possible solutions taken in implementing the 2013 curriculum. This is a descriptive research study conducted in February - June 2018 at vocational school SMKN 4 Yogyakarta and SMKN 6 Yogyakarta as the state VHSs implementing the 2013 Curriculum. The data were collected by means of observation, documentation, and questionnaire, and were analyzed by the descriptive statistics. The results of the study show that the readiness of the teachers of Culinary subjects in implementing the 2013 Curriculum at VHSs in Yogyakarta municipality are described as follows. (1) the planning of the learning process, (2) implementation of learning, and (3) assessment of learning outcomes are in Good category. In addition, (4) it is found that the obstacles faced by the teachers of Culinary subjects include: (a) the lack of learning resources such as practical or productive coursebooks, (b) the lack of teaching hours so that they should take over those of other subjects to fulfill the target, (c) the number of administrative stuffs that teachers must prepare especially for the assessment aspects, and (d) the lack of available internet facilities, so that learning which requires the internet connection is constrained. Of the several constraints existing in the implementation of the 2013 Curriculum in Culinary at VHSs in Yogyakarta, the solution put forward is taking the hours of other subjects so that the needed hours for the practicum sessions can be fulfilled.
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