Educational quality assurance: social community services program for rural area

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of the workshop in using google classroom as social community services for elementary school teachers and learning assistance at home for Elementary school students in Kare district, Madiun. With the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, there were several problems faced by teachers and students in several elementary schools in Kare, they are;1) teachers had a problem in operating google classroom as media for teaching, 2) students had a problem in using Google Classroom, 3) Parents had difficulty in monitoring or assisting children’ work. Starting from this problem, it is necessary to do a workshop for teachers in maximizing the using of Google Classroom and doing a learning assistance program for students at home. Furthermore, the steps in implementing this program are; 1) doing workshops and mentoring teachers; 2) mentoring and assisting student s;3) reflecting on activities and planning follow-up and program dissemination. The participants of this workshop were 26 teachers; while the participants of home-community were 10 groups which consist of 66 pupils handled by 12 university students. By doing this program, it is hoped that there will be an improvement in the quality of online teaching learning process in the elementary schools in Kare, Madiun. The results showed that:1) 81% of teachers were enthusiastic in participating in the workshop of Google Classroom, 2) the activities in assisting students at home done by Universitas PGRI Madiun’s students helped primary students in understanding the material and using Google Classroom, even though 34% of students still had connectivity problems in accessing Google Classroom, 3) 75% of parents were satisfied with Home Learning Assistance done by UNIPMA’s students.