Guest Lecturer: Development of the Chemistry Learning Program eith Yuli Nestiyarum, S.Pd

Saturday, August 14, 2021 the Chemistry Education Study Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UNY held a Guest Lecturer for the Development of Chemistry Learning Programs. The speaker for the activities that carried out through the Zoom Meeting was Yuli Nestiyarum, S.Pd. She is an alumnus of the Chemistry Education Study Program, FMIPA UNY, who has a career as a teacher at SMA N 1 Sayegan and an Ambassador for the Rumah Belajar D.I. Yogyakarta, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia. Based on her experience in participating in national and international training relevant to teacher competence, she has received many awards. Therefore, this activity was held for 2019 Chemistry Education Study Program students as a provision to become active and competent teachers.

Based on the speaker’s presentation, learning is the foundation for teachers and lecturers as educators to continue to update their knowledge so that they can improve the learning process of students in accordance with the development of science and technology. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, organizes many training programs for teachers in Indonesia, such as Rumah Belajar. Rumah Belajar is one of the programs created to provide learning programs such as materials presented in the form of media, learning resources, question banks, study classes, virtual labs, and other features that can be utilized by teachers and students in Indonesia. Later, teachers can develop content in the study house, in line with other programs organized by the Ministry of Education and Research and Technology, namely pembaTIK. pembaTIK is a program to improve teacher's ICT competence that refers to the framework until later at the highest level batik makers become ambassadors for the Rumah Belajar Indonesian Ministry of Education Culture, Research and Technology

The implementation of the Guest Lecturer: Development of the Chemistry Learning Program was also attended by Chemistry Education lecturers so that discussions and sharing between lecturers, students, and speaker took place very interestingly. The active participation of students in the discussion may be the initiation of self-motivation to develop themselves as competent teacher candidates.