Baseline Study About Discipline Practice In Schools Papua And West Papua Province

Study baseline on discipline practice in school conducted as a strengthening reading and writing education in pre-school students in the edged and isolated area in Papua and west Papua province. The improving quality result of reading and writing that students achieved is not only through teachers skills improvement in teaching reading and writing, but also by creating school environment which is save and free from children abused. The aimed of study baseline is to give discipline practice that applied by teachers in school. And also about teachers and students viewed about punishment. The sample data consisted of teachers, headmasters, and students. Teachers and headmasters as the practitioners who used the punishment to control the students’ behavior. The pre-school teachers who involved in this study. The selected schools were 6 schools from 20 basic literacy schools model program in Biak Numfor regency, Jayawijaya, Manokwari, and Mimika. Data collection was done by researched and interviewed to the teachers and headmasters was conducted by Focus Group Discussion (FGD), and the students was done by asking teachnique ‘find out’. Study results showed that teachers still wrong in interpreting discipline and equated as punishment. Teachers responded on students’ negative behavior (Misbehave) in hard ways, embarrassing, and harassing. Teachers continuesly became angry/ punished the students even only for little mistakes.