EFL Teachers’ Needs and The Role of Government’s Programs on Teachers’ Professional Development  

Oleh:

Armin, Diah Safithri

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 605-610.
Topik: Teachers’ perspective; teachers’ needs; government’s programs; professional development
Fulltext: hal 605.pdf (15.04MB)

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Indonesian government provides many programs tohelp the teachers develop their professionalism, namely the standard of education background, certification, and the teachers’ groups such as KKG, PKG, and MGMP. Unfortunately, the teachers assume that the programs which are provided by the government are considered less effective in helping them develop their professionalism. This study attempted to investigate the teachers’ perspectives on professional development, the teachers’ needs in developing their professionalism, and the teachers’ perspectivesof the government’s programs to develop their professionalism. This study was conducted in basic interpretive qualitative research. Open-ended questionnaire and semistructured interview were used as the techniques of the data.The data were interpreted and then were analyzed by using descriptive analysis. Nineteen EFL teachers from Bandung, Medan, Jakarta, Bangka Belitung, and Purwokerto were involved as the respondents of this study. The results of thisstudy reveal that the teachers have positive perceptions on professional development in improving their teaching skill. The teachers’ needs in developing their professionalismare having more experiences in teaching, having enough time to do professional development, getting more access to various teacher training or workshop, being provided with well infrastructures, getting support from other colleagues, being given the opportunity for the study in university, getting the opportunity to do educational research, and getting financial support. In addition, the research results also reveal that many of the respondents have a positive perspective on the government professional development programs. The government was suggested to pay more attention in helping the teachers to improve their teaching skill through the professional development program.

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