Islamic Boarding School Education Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Pesantren is a model of the first Islamic educational institution that supports the continuity of national education. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, it began to shift the order of the learning process that usually takes place; one example is face-to-face learning turning into online learning. This shift in the learning model has begun to pose challenges for teachers or Ustaz in evaluating the students' learning development. Likewise, it is rather difficult to control the students in activities such as compulsory worship and other sunnah. Like one of the Islamic educational institutions, Islamic boarding schools have not provided an adaptive model to this problem. The management of Islamic boarding schools in responding to the pandemic has spawned several policies that are considered controversial, such as continuing to hold face-to-face learning activities. This study aims to describe the management of Islamic boarding school learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pondok Pesantren Daar el-Qolam 3 Gintung, Jayanti, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, was used as a research location using a qualitative approach with a reflective descriptive method. The results showed that the implementation of education management at the Daar el-Qolam 3 Islamic boarding school includes two main things, namely physical and non-physical management. This implementation fulfills the basic aspects of Islamic boarding school education while still paying attention to government policies