PPG SM-3T: an Attempt to Produce Future Professional Teachers  

Oleh:

Wahyuni, Sri ; Wulandari, Rini Susanti

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 2, page 295-306.
Topik: PPG SM-3T; teachers’ competence; professional teacher
Fulltext: hal 295.pdf (15.04MB)

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There has been a great number of teacher professional development programs carried out by the government to improve education quality in Indonesia. One of the programs which at the moment is becoming the government’s concern is the teacher training program (PPG) for the participants of Program for Frontier, Outermost, and Disadvantaged Areas (SM-3T). SM-3T is a program designed to overcome the problem of lack of teachers in remote areas. Besides, the program gives the participants opportunities to develop their teaching experiences and prepares them to be future professional teachers. Moreover, the teacher training program (PPG) itself is conducted to enrich participants’ professional, pedagogical, personal, and social competencies. In regard to the ultimate goal of the program which is to prepare and produce professional teachers, it, therefore, is carried out with two main activities; workshops on designing instructional instruments and teaching practicum. However, does the program yield a satisfying result? Do the professional teacher candidates improve their competencies? Thus, this paper is intended to find out the contribution of PPG SM-3T to the improvement of teacher candidates’ professional competence. Based on the data analysis gained through questionnaires distributed to the PPG participants, teachers, and instructors, the respondents stated that the PPG participants improved in terms of their professional competence and characterize future professional teachers. Meanwhile, the analysis on the documents of workshop result showed improvement in both professional and pedagogical competencies.

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