Penguatan Modal Sosial dan Komunikasi bagi Relawan Guru Pendidikan Agama Kristen di Salatiga Jawa Tengah

Abstract

The Inter-Church Cooperation Agency (BKGS) in Salatiga is concerned about Christian religious education services in several elementary schools (SD), both public and private elementary schools in the city of Salatiga, which apparently still have a shortage of teachers. The problem of the lack of PAK teachers, especially at the elementary school level, is what BPGS then recruits for volunteer Christian Religious Education (PAK) teachers. The organizers of the Salatiga Christian Community Guidance informed that since September 2018 there have been 12 elementary schools that have not served religious education for Christian students and 8 elementary schools that have not served religious education for Catholic students. As volunteers, teachers are not paid properly, only on a voluntary basis from the school where they teach. For this reason, so that these teacher volunteers can still become professional teachers, a competency workshop is needed and to increase the sense of calling and a sense of togetherness, spiritual and social activities are needed. For this reason, a workshop on strengthening social capital and communication was held for teacher volunteers with the aim of teacher volunteers realizing the importance of social capital so that they have the enthusiasm to continue to strengthen their social capital and also apply communicative and productive communication. The method used is educational games, interactions, and workshops. From the activities that have been carried out, the teachers state that they have benefited from the material that has been given and strengthen social capital in carrying out their duties as PAK teacher volunteers who are being undertaken, and can understand effective communication to be applied when teaching and mentoring PAUD students.