<span>The effects of the pandemic in the world of education have as many influences as the adjustment of learning models. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of blended learning as an alternative to online education in the new normal era. This was an experimental study with a one-shot case study design conducted in several public high schools in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The respondents involved in this study were 70 teachers who were determined using a simple random sampling technique. The data was collected by using a questionnaire. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the effect of the effectiveness of the application of the blended learning model during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that the effectiveness of educational programs after using blended learning is 95.05%, much higher than the effectiveness of educational programs before using blended learning with a score of 73.24%. The blended learning model affects the effectiveness of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by 85.20%. Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic that implements the blended learning model will run more effectively and more successfully. Schools need to apply the blended learning model because the use of this method is effective, efficient, and more successful in the new normal era.</span>

Bullying behavior can occur randomly by not choosing a place, time, and to anyone. Bullying also often occurs in Islamic educational institutions including in madrasah, Islamic schools (integrated) and also pesantren. This phenomenon will worsen the image of Islamic education institutions in the eyes of the community, so it should be solved properly. This study aims to analyze the behavior of bullying that occurs in several Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia that have been published in journals. Data were processed by using meta-synthesis analysis with an ecological theory approach. The results obtained are few studies bullying in educational institutions compiled in approach microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Although not all elements in ecological theory are consistently represented in the discussion by published researchers, ecological theory is well worth recommended as a knife of analysis to overcome bullying combined with counseling programs.

Each student has a uniqueness that must be considered by the teacher in the learning process, unusually slow learner children with various peculiarities. This study aims to reveal the attention of Islamic Religious Education teachers to slow learner children. This study is qualitative research with a survey approach-data sources of Islamic religious education teachers in inclusive schools with their specificity of slow learner students. Through in-depth interviews, the data is extracted from the source. After the data is collected, then it is analyzed through a grounded theory strategy. The analysis uses several stages, namely arranging them into categories, then deciding in a theoretical model, and finally describing them in the relations between classifications. The result of this study is Islamic Religious Education teachers always pay more attention to slow learner children. It is done by simplifying the material and language according to their circumstances and also doing material repetition. Through various kinds of attention to individual differences as such, slow learner children can participate in learning and achieve competencies similar to healthy children.

Children's morality and akhlak have been in the spotlight lately, and teachers are often suspected of this problem. The teacher as an agent of change has a heavy responsibility to keep the moral and moral character of the child well-maintained. Based on the phenomenon, the decline in moral and akhlak of children occurs especially when he faces drastic changes in his life. Kulonprogo will soon be affected by major changes after the International Airport operates. How do Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) teachers from Kulonprogo equip their students so that they have good morals and akhlak? The subjects in this study were the Akidah Aakidah teachers at MTs in Kulonprogo who were active in the Akidah Akhlah Subject Teachers' Meeting. Data collection through indepth interviews with 5 teachers, organizers and active MGMP participants. The five-person representative includes; 3 represent from State MTs and 2 private people. Two private MTs representatives represented Muhammadiyah and Ma'arif. The results of the study show that strengthening moral / morality of children in MTs in Kulonprogo reinforces good habits, cooperation with all teachers, and collaboration with parents of students. The teachers stated that they were strengthening the good habits of a religious nature, like whispering salam, shaking hands, reading the asmaul husna, dhuha prayer and the dzuhur prayer in congregation. While the good habits of the state are ceremonies and respect for flags in the class, the teachers also emphasized that good habits in school must get support from parents, so that each MTs reinforces communication links with parents through regular meetings with parents packed in various ways according to the school. In public MTs, there are usually regular monthly meetings between school and parents. In Muhammadiyah monthly recitation, and in Ma'arif mujahadah every selapanan days. In this way, the teachers hope to be able to strengthen the moral / morality of students in the midst of the erosion of the nation's morale.

Creativity is the most important part of the human being, therefore it is worth to look for what causes that can improve and what the cause of the inhibitors. Creativity can bring one's life into existence. Creativity is a thing that can always be developed in a person's life. One's creativity can be enhanced with a lot of things. One is coriusity (curiosity) which has a very large role in improving it. Harlock said that the cause of the inefficacy of creativity is a limitation of exploration, timing is too tight, encouragement family togetherness, limiting delusion, providing tools play a very structured, conservative attitudes of parents, parents were overprotective.