The Principles of Need Analysis for EFL Teacher Professional Development in Indonesia  

Oleh:

Utami,I.G.A. Lokita Purnamika

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 313-318.
Topik: Professional Development; EFL teachers; Need Analysis
Fulltext: hal 313.pdf (16.58MB)

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help them improve their professional growth. Literatures on professional development mention there are many types of activities, ranging from the least formal such as professional dialogue to the most formal like attending seminar. Recent literatures call these activities as Continuous Professional Development based on the belief that it should be done continuously as long as their teacher carrier.For Indonesian EFL context, there are some options to develop Indonesian English teacher’s professionalism: sending teachers to graduate program in English Language education, assigning teacher’s to join in-service teachers’ certification, sending teachers to the Education and Training for Teacher profession Program, and building teachers’ awareness of the importance of continuous improvement learning (Cahyono, 2010). However, not all teachers are willing to be actively involved in these activities because of some reasons. One of the reasons is the gap between teachers’ needs and what the program offers. Research on teacher PD in Indonesia show that there are many PD providers for teachers, however, they sometime offer programs which are irrelevant to teachers’ needs. Ideally, PD planner should do a need analysis before administering the program. As what expected in the law of teacher and lecturer no 14 of 2005, professional teacher are those who master the four competences namely professional, pedagogical, personal and social competences. In relation with this, this article highlights PD needs based on these four competences within the proposed principles of EFL teacher professional development need analysis in Indonesia. Besides, this article presents a draft of blueprint for the need analysis instrument.

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