Teaching writing requires interactive and motivating activities in EFL classroom. Usually, EFL learners lost their interest and get discouraged in writing class so they tend to avoid writing activities and exercises. The reasons are they get difficulties in exploring their ideas in written form and they cannot consult and meet the teacher individually during class time because of limited time for teaching. Thus, EFL learners need motivation in triggering themselves to write. Teachers have very significant contribution to improve quality of learning and support the learners to maintain their motivation by applying interactive teaching model. Therefore, flipped classroom is alternative model that could be utilized in managing inside or outside classroom activities. It is a digital technology used to shift direct instruction outside of the group learning to individual learning, usually via videos. This article aims to share the practice and challenges of applying flipped classroom model in teaching writing.

A child with autism is also called as child with special needs who in his education need to get special services. An autistic child is who lives in his own world, and tends to feel obstacles in interaction, communication, and social behavior. This study describes a process of how the Picture Exchange Communication System(PECS)  becomes an Alternative strategy for optimizing the ability of autistic children to practice communication using non-verbal symbols. This study aims to examine the communication skills of early children with autism through a quantitative approach with the Single Subject Research method. The result shows that the PECS approach is effective in optimizing expressive communication skills in first grade students at SLB-B and Autis Bintoro Jember. This effectiveness can be seen from the increased test scores from baseline to intervention. In the baseline conditions, the test score of expressive communication skills performance was 21% and 67% in the intervention conditions, so that the mean increased by 46%. The data is supported by 0% overlap percentage which shows that this method is effective to increase the expressive sommunication skills.     Abstrak Salah satu yang termasuk anak berkebutuhan khusus adalah penyandang autis yang memerlukan pelayanan khusus dalam pendidikannya. Penyandang autis didefinisikan sebagai seseorang yang memiliki dunianya sendiri, yang dalam berinteraksi, berkomunikasi, dan berperilaku social kerap mendapati hambatan. Kajian ini mendeskripsikan proses bagaimana Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) menjadi sebuah strategi alternatif pengoptimalan kemampuan anak autis dalam mempraktikkan komunikasi dengan menggunakan simbol-simbol non-verbal. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji kemampuan komunikasi anak usia dini yang menyandang autis melalui pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode Penelitian Subjek Tunggal. Berdasarkan penelitian yang dilakukan, diperoleh hasil bahwa pendekatan PECS efektif untuk memaksimalkan kemampuan dalam berkomunikasi ekspresif pada siswa kelas satu di SLB-B dan Autis Bintoro Jember. Hal tersebut dapat dibuktikan melalui adanya peningkatan nilai tes yang bertambah di keadaan awal (baseline) setelah di intervensi.  Pada saat awal (baseline),  skor pada tes kemampuan  ketika anak melakukan komunikasi ekspresif sebanyak 21%, dan ketika sudah di intervensi menunjukkan angka peningkatan mencapai 67%, sehingga dapat dikatakan reratanya meningkat sebanyak 46%. Kata Kunci: Pendekatan PECS, Autis, Komunikasi Ekspresif

Indonesia sebagai sebuah Negara pastilah memiliki keragaman baik pada sisi  sosial, masyarakat, suku, ras, agama dan budaya. Keanekaragaman yang hadir di bumi Nusantara bukanlah hal yang aneh. Sejarah telah mencatat, pondasi peradaban sudah terbentuk dengan begitu indahnya oleh nenek moyang kita.  Begitu juga halnya, ketika Islam sebagai sebuah teologi baru yang dibawa oleh para pendakwah atau yang kita kenal dengan sebutan Wali, mulai menapakkan jejak tradisi dan kebudayaan. Kehadiran teologi baru yakni Islam menambah khazanah kebudayaan yang disandingkan dengan tradisi dan kebudayaan masyarakat lokal. Pertemuan budaya inilah melahirkan nilai-nilai keadaban dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan terutama pada nilai-nilai pendidikan budaya. Warisan kebudayaan yang ditinggalkan oleh para Wali dengan mengedepankan nilai-nilai penghormatan pada perbedaan (tasammuh) menjadi inti kuatnya ikatan antar anak bangsa dalam menyikapi perbedaan. Bertemunya unsur kebudayaan lama dan kebudayaan baru  yang saling mengisi, merupakan contah nyata dalam menyikapi pluralisme budaya yang hadir di tengah-tengah kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara. Nilai-nilai pendidikan kebudayaan yang sudah diukir dalam catatan sejarah leluhur bangsa ini, seyogyanyalah tetap dipertahankan dan bahkan dikembangan dalam sebuah institusi pendidikan yang berorientasikan pada penyelamatan dan pengimplementasian nilai-nilai luhur keragaman budaya. Kata kunci : Islam, Pluralisme, Budaya, Dakwah, Pendidikan Abstract Indonesia as a country must have diversity in terms of social, community, ethnicity, race, religion and culture. The diversity that is present in the archipelago is not a strange thing. History has recorded, the foundation of civilization has been formed so beautifully by our ancestors. Likewise, when Islam as a new theology brought by the preachers or what we know as Wali, began to tread traces of tradition and culture. The presence of a new theology, namely Islam, adds to the cultural treasures that are juxtaposed with the traditions and culture of the local community. This cultural meeting gave birth to the values ​​of civilization in various aspects of life, especially in the values ​​of cultural education. The cultural heritage left by the Guardians by prioritizing the values ​​of respect for differences (tasammuh) is the core of the strong bond between the nation's children in responding to differences. The meeting of elements of old culture and new culture that complement each other is a real example in responding to cultural pluralism that is present in the midst of national and state life. The values ​​of cultural education that have been engraved in the historical records of this nation's ancestors should be maintained and even developed in an educational institution that is oriented towards saving and implementing the noble values ​​of cultural diversity. Keywords: Islam, Pluralism, Culture, Da'wah, Education

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