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CHAPTER III DISCUSSION
A. School Description
1. General Description of SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta.
SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta is one of the formal educations in Surakarta. This school is located in Jl. Bengawan Semanggi, Surakarta. Like other state
elementary schools, SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta consists of six grades; first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade. SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta was built in 1958 on
the area of about 710 m
2
. The building of SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta divides into three sections, there are classroom, offices and facilities. Teaching and Learning
activities are held in the classroom. There are six classrooms beginning from the first grade to the six grade. Each classroom is handled by a class teacher who
teaches fourty-five children on average. There are two offices in SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta; the teacher’s office and the headmaster’s office. The teacher’s office is
a place where administrative activities are held. Besides, the teachers also prepare their teaching materials and have a meeting among them in this office. The other
office, that is the headmaster’s office, is a place for the head master to work and welcome the guests.
To support teaching and learning activities, SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta has five facilities. They are a mosque, a library, a school health center, a canteen and a
parking area. The library and the school health center are in the same building
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has three bathrooms. SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta is led by a headmaster. Firstly, it is led by Yudo
Prasonto and now it is led by Sumari Prawiro Admojo. It has 13 teachers consisting of 11 permanent teachers and 2 assistance teachers, and one gardener.
Each of the class teachers teaches one class. The sport and religion teacher teaches the whole classes. The English teacher teaches the 4
th
grade up to the 6
th
grade. All of the teachers are responsible for giving the material to the students and
supervising the student’s development including education, social, attitude and culture. The school activities are held six days in a week and it starts from 07.00
a.m. until 12.40 p.m. but on Friday the school time finishes at 11.10 a.m. and on Saturday until 10.30 a.m. In holding the teaching and learning process, SDN
Tegalrejo Surakarta uses two curriculums. The 1
st
, 2
nd
, 4
th
and 5
th
grade use the Competence Based Curriculum. The 3
rd
and 6
th
grade use the 1994 Curriculum. SDN Tegalrejo Surakarta always gives attention for the quality of
education. For improving the school’s quality, this school has a vision, “Create the students who is pious the God and has good personality”. Besides, SDN
Tegalrejo Surakarta has also missions. One of them missions is creating the next generation who is religious, intelligent, and have good personality to the future.
2. The School Structural Organization.
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