About the Service
Every child has a different learning profile, strengths, needs, interests, and stage of development. Temenos Homeschooling offers a more personal, structured, and flexible learning environment while still following the national curriculum.
The service brings together academic learning, functional skills, independence, executive functioning, social-emotional development, and the exploration of interests and potential. A learner's success is measured not only by grades or mastery of school subjects, but also by how they use what they know in everyday life.
Temenos runs the learning and the educational support. For learners in the national equivalency programs Paket A, Paket B, or Paket C (elementary, middle, and high school equivalents), the educational administration is handled through a licensed partner PKBM, a community learning center.
Where Homeschooling Fits in Indonesian Education
Indonesia's National Education System Law (No. 20 of 2003) divides education into formal, nonformal, and informal pathways, which can complement and enrich one another.
- Formal: structured, graded schooling, from elementary (SD), middle (SMP), and high or vocational school (SMA/SMK) to higher education. Temenos is not a formal school.
- Nonformal: education outside the formal pathway that can still be structured and graded. The equivalency programs Paket A, B, and C belong here, and for Temenos learners their administration runs through a licensed partner PKBM.
- Informal: education within the family and the surrounding community. The family remains the main partner in planning, carrying out, and generalizing the child's skills.
Temenos designs and delivers the learning. Registration, required assessments, and graduation documents for the equivalency programs are handled through the partner PKBM, in line with the regulations.
The Temenos Approach to Learning
Temenos Homeschooling is not simply a mainstream class moved into a smaller room. The program is designed by a team trained in inclusive education, individual learning needs, accommodations and modifications, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and adaptive skills. This follows the principles of inclusive education, which treat learner diversity as part of the education system and work to remove barriers to participation and learning.
A flexible national curriculum. Learning follows the national curriculum at the learner's level. The pace, methods, materials, amount of support, types of tasks, and ways of showing understanding can all be adjusted to their learning profile.
Accommodations and modifications. Accommodations change how a learner accesses learning or shows what they have learned without changing the core skill, for example extra time, step-by-step instructions, visual schedules, tools, or the option to answer out loud. Modifications adjust the difficulty, the breadth of material, the targets, or the expected outcomes. Both are based on the learner's real needs, not simply on a diagnosis.
Individual Learning Program (PPI/IEP). A PPI, or IEP, is written for learners who need more detailed individual targets and support. It can include a profile of strengths and needs, learning priorities, academic or functional targets, teaching strategies, forms of support, and ways of measuring progress. Not every learner needs a full PPI; whether to use one is decided through assessment, observation, and discussion with the family.
Working with families and professionals. Families are key partners in setting priorities, following progress, and helping skills carry over to home and the community. With the family's consent, Temenos can also coordinate with the partner PKBM and with other professionals who support the learner.
Two Main Focuses: Academic and Functional
Temenos sees academic and functional skills as two connected parts. Children need not only to understand what they learn, but also to be able to use it in real life.
| Academic skills | Functional skills |
|---|---|
| Reading, writing, numeracy, general knowledge, problem solving, and expressing ideas. | Practical communication, self-regulation, executive functioning, self-care, social skills, managing time and money, safety, responsibility, getting around, and work readiness. |
| Taught through subjects, projects, discussions, presentations, creative work, and suitable assessments. | Practiced through hands-on experience, simulations, routines, real-life projects, and community-based activities. |
The two come together when learners learn to read through a recipe, learn math by going shopping, learn to write by making a to-do list, or learn communication through everyday interaction in the community.
Program Components
Academic Learning
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School subjects based on the national curriculum, adjusted to the learner's starting point, learning needs, executive functioning, language, attention span, and social-emotional development. Progress can be evaluated through tests, projects, presentations, creative work, interviews, and real-life tasks.
Practical Life Skills
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Focuses on independence and adaptive skills, such as self-care, keeping clean and healthy, preparing simple food, looking after personal belongings, using money, understanding time and schedules, shopping, communicating in the community, following safety rules, and completing everyday responsibilities.
Enrichment and Interest Development
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Learners can explore music, art, movement, sports, creative play, crafts, or projects based on their interests. The aim is not only to make something, but also to practice making choices, persistence, confidence, cooperation, and self-expression.
Career Exploration and Transition to Adulthood
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The transition program builds gradually, matched to age and readiness. Children can start by getting to know different jobs and work responsibilities; teenagers can practice work habits, communication, finishing tasks, simple entrepreneurship, workplace visits, building a portfolio, or a suitable internship.
How the Service Works
- First consultation. We talk about the family's needs, the learner's educational history, strengths, challenges, and hopes.
- Information and assessment. We review documents and carry out any observation or assessment needed to understand the learner's starting point and learning profile.
- Program planning. We set academic and functional targets, learning strategies, the schedule, and any accommodations, modifications, or PPI.
- Learning. Activities can be one-on-one, in small groups, through projects, hands-on practice, and experiences in the community.
- Monitoring and evaluation. Progress is followed through observation, work produced, assessment, progress records, and individual targets reached.
- Collaboration. Temenos coordinates with the family, the partner PKBM, and other professionals as the learner needs.
Who Can Join?
The program may suit children, teens, or adults who need more individual learning, find large classes hard to keep up with, need accommodations or modifications, or want support with foundational academic skills, executive functioning, self-regulation, life skills, or preparing for adult life. It is also open to learners without a particular diagnosis when the program fits their needs and educational goals.
- Ages: 7 and up, through adulthood
- Schedule: Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (elementary, SD) and 9 a.m.–2 p.m. (middle school, SMP)
- Group size: up to 9 participants
- Location: Temenos Ruko Galaxy (our second location), Ruko Galaxy Block J05, Cengkareng, West Jakarta
Our Commitment
- Valuing each learner's uniqueness, strengths, and needs.
- Using learning goals that are clear and can be evaluated.
- Following the national curriculum with responsible adjustments.
- Bringing academic development and functional skills together.
- Involving families as our main partners.
- Preparing learners to take part more independently in family life, education, work, and the community.
At Temenos, education is not only about finishing school subjects. It is the process of helping children learn, grow, function, make choices, and prepare for their future.
How the Program Is Run
Temenos Homeschooling is a learning and educational support service. For learners in the equivalency programs Paket A, Paket B, or Paket C, the educational administration, registration, required assessments, and graduation documents are handled by a licensed partner PKBM. We explain how the partnership works during the consultation and registration stage.
Wondering Whether Homeschooling Fits Your Child?
Get in touch to talk about your child's needs and how the program can be adapted.
References
- Republik Indonesia. (2003). Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 20 Tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional.
- UNESCO. (2020). Global education monitoring report 2020: Inclusion and education—All means all. UNESCO.