Principal Management in Implementation of the School Literacy Movement Program

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10.2991/assehr.k.210909.091How to use a DOI?

Keywords

management, principal, literacy

Abstract

The School Literacy Movement is a strategy implemented by the government that aims at improving students’ reading skills which are applied from elementary to high school levels. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of the management of the principal in the implementation of the School Literacy Movement program at elementary school in Banda Aceh which includes planning, implementation, evaluation, as well as supporting and inhibiting factors. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data were collected in three elementary schools in Banda Aceh City. The data collection technique was done by observing, interviewing, and documenting. The subjects in this study were the principal, librarian, teachers, students, and school supervisors. The results of this study indicate that the three schools have implemented the program in relatively the same conditions. The implementation of the Literacy Movement refers to the vision and mission of the school that has been formulated, the school principal disseminates policies for the school literacy movement through meetings, issues letter of assignment for the School Literacy Team, designs activities program, provides reading corners in the classrooms and in the school yard and optimalizes library functions. The school principal also always reminds about the implementation of the program, allocates funds for the procurement of books, holds competitions, displays literacy works of students, requires students to read books every day for 15 minutes before starting learning activities, encourages the use of good school infrastructure, carries out regular literacy training, carry out good library management, as well as monitor and evaluate the implementation of the school literacy movement are supporting factors in the implementation of the school literacy movement. However, there were a few obstacles faced, such as less updated reading sources and lack of supervision from related agencies.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanti Fazri
AU  - Cut Zahri Harun
AU  - Nasir Usman
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/11
TI  - Principal Management in Implementation of the School Literacy Movement Program
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science, Technology, and Modern Society (ICSTMS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 414
EP  - 418
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210909.091
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210909.091
ID  - Fazri2021
ER  -