Journal articles on the topic 'English teachers In-service training Indonesia Yogyakarta Evaluation'

This article reports a community service activity conducted to give training to Senior High School English teachers in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on academic writing, especially on formulating research questions of their Classroom Action Research (CAR). The training was a part of series of training conducted by the lecturers of the English Language Education Department of Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana (UKDW) at regular Senior High School Teacher Professional Development Forum (MGMP) meetings. It was conducted to answer the teachers’ needs to conduct educational research for their professional development and career advancement as regulated by the government. The training on formulating research questions in CAR was divided into two sessions. The first session was lecture session in which relevant theories, practical suggestions, and examples regarding research questions were presented to the participants. This session, despite resource-person-led, could be interrupted with immediate questions from the teacher participants, allowing a more dynamic discussion. The second session was workshop session in which the participants practiced formulating research questions based on their respective teaching contexts with a close guidance from the resource person. Based on a reflective evaluation on the training, several conclusions on what had gone well and what needed to be improved are also presented along with several suggestions regarding possible follow-up trainings in the future.

Highly qualified and competent teachers are the key for outstanding education systems. Teachers, however, are too busy with administrative work. Accordingly conducting engaging in-service training for them is a relief, as well as a way to improve their teaching skills. The aim of this research is to report the in-service English training in a bilingual school in Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia, which the outcome is to improve the English skills of the teachers as a means of teaching (EMI � English as a Medium of Instruction). Questionnaires, interviews, and written reflections were the techniques of collecting the data. The result of the training shows that through some light hands-on activities, the teachers� motivation and engagement improved. This improvement resulted in the increase in using classroom language instructions.

This study aimed to compare the male and female pre-service teachers’ motives in becoming EFL teachers and to find out whether there was any difference between male and female pre-service teachers’ motives to become teachers. The quantitative research with survey design was applied to collect the data from three private teacher-training institutions of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. SPSS 24 was used to analyze the data. The findings indicated that the Sig. (2-tailed) value was 0.612 higher than 0.05 (alpha) and the descriptive statistical analysis proved that the mean score between female (N=96) and male (N=36) pre-service teachers’ motivation was relatively same. The mean score for female was 2.90 with the standard deviation of 0.38 and for male was 2.94 with the standard deviation of 0.26. Therefore, there was no difference between male and female pre-service teachers’ motivation in three teacher-training institutions of Yogyakarta.

The fact that English teachers teaching in a computer science department may not really know detail about information technology (IT) as a subject, as well as its terminologies, brings about difficulties when deciding what kind of teaching materials are appropriate to the student’s learning needs. Another issue is that some computer science teachers do not have an English language teaching background. This can be a drawback for this group of teachers since they do not really know how to teach the language. The following discussion is a needs analysis used as a preliminary study to develop an in-service training (IST) model to improve English teachers’ pedagogical and professional competencies in a computer science department. Pedagogical knowledge, skill, and attitude, and professional competency became the core study since these two were the obvious difficulties faced by the two groups of teachers. This study involved English computer science teachers, the curriculum administrator, and the students in two private universities and one state university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Observations, open interviews, and questionnaires were used to gather the data.

ENGLISH TRAINING FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATORS IN YOGYAKARTA IN THE TIME OF COVID-19. This community service activity was conducted in the form of an English training for eight teachers of an Elementary School in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was conducted from January 2020 up to April 2020. The elementary school in which the training was conducted was an inclusive school in the process of implementing English as Medium Instruction (EMI) policy. As such, its teachers’ mastery of English became paramount important to facilitate young learners with all their individual differences. The training consisted of ten meetings focusing on giving instructions in class. The first up to the sixth meetings were conducted at the school in a face-to-face mode, whilst the seventh up to the tenth meetings were conducted online, mostly through tele-conferences, due to the Covid-19 pandemic compelling both facilitators and the training participants to work from home. In the ninth meeting, the participants sent their micro-teaching videos on giving effective instructions in class. In the last meeting, the facilitators gave constructive feedback based on the videos sent earlier on aspects that the participants had been good at and aspects that still needed improvements.

Anxieties that are experienced by the teachers are also undergone by the pre-service teachers. The pre-service teachers feel anxious when they teach students or their peers in a real classroom. This study aimed at investigating English pre-service teachers� perceptions of anxiety in peer teaching. To achieve the objective, a questionnaire and open-ended questions were administered to gauge the perceptions of 44 pre-service teachers of the English Education Department, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. Findings revealed that the majority of the preservice English teachers felt anxious about their first peer teaching practice. It was shown that pre-service teachers were unconfident; worried about their English language skills, teaching skills, evaluation skills, and classroom management; and were not sure of the preparations they had made. The top factor causing their anxiety was their classroom management skills. This means that they put the greatest concern on the way they would manage the class. Nevertheless, by knowing the causes of the anxiety, they got the opportunities to reduce it in the next teaching.

The teaching of English in Elementary Schools in Indonesia have been conducted for decades, but based on literature review and preliminary study, most of the teachers teaching English in Public Elementary Schools, both in the regular local content subject or English extracurricular activities have inadequate English and English teaching skills. In-service training was proposed due to the teachers’ time availability. The training activities will be conducted after school hours and taken place in their schools. The development of the training employs a research and development research method comprising the preliminary study, class observations, interview, the development of materials, instructional media and evaluation that will be validated by the experts. After the expert validation stage, the products which have been revised based on the experts’ suggestions are then applied in the field validation. The last stage is the revision of the products based on field validation. This product is projected to be an example of a teacher professional development program for teachers teaching English in Elementary School.

Abstract This community service activity aims to provide English language training for teachers of Tumbuh High School, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This training focuses on English for classroom use and student report writing. The training was conducted by two facilitators (the authors) in ten meetings. The main activities, six face-to-face in-class sessions, included syllabus presentations, discussions about teaching styles, sharing of teaching experiences and of various needs to meet especially to facilitate or accommodate some students with special needs, teaching demonstrations, and report writing. All of these activities were conducted in full English. Follow-up activities were in the form of one facilitators-participants conference in which the facilitators met each participant individually and discussed his/her progress in learning, two class observations in which the facilitators observed the participants teaching in their respective classes, and one discussion session with the curriculum coordinator about the progress of the participants during the training as an input for the school to determine the follow-up policy regarding the participants’ professional development. Keywords: Community service, English for classroom use, student reports Abstrak Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (PKM) yang dilakukan bertujuan untuk memberikan pelatihan Bahasa Inggris kepada guru-guru SMP/SMA Tumbuh Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Pelatihan ini mencakup penggunaan Bahasa Inggris secara lisan sebagai pengantar instruksi (kegiatan pembelajaran), dan penulisan laporan hasil belajar siswa. Pelatihan dilakukan oleh dua fasilitator (penulis) dalam sepuluh kali pertemuan.Kegiatan utama adalah enam sesi tatap muka di kelas yang berisi presentasi silabus, diskusi tentang gaya mengajar, sharing pengalaman mengajar dan berbagai macam kebutuhan khususnya untuk menfasilitasi beberapa siswa berkebutuhan khusus, demonstrasi mengajar, dan penulisan laporan hasil belajar siswa yang kesemuanya dilakukan dalam Bahasa Inggris. Kegiatan lanjutan berupa diskusi hasil belajar, dua kali observasi cara mengajar para peserta di kelas yang diampu, dan satu sesi diskusi tentang perkembangan para peserta dengan koordinator kurikulum untuk menjadi masukan bagi sekolah menentukan kebijakan lanjutan. Kata kunci: Pengabdian kepada masyarakat (PKM), Bahasa Inggris sebagai pengantar instruksi, laporan hasil belajar

In 2045, Indonesia is determined to have a golden generation in order to improve the nation's competitiveness. However, in reality the condition of teenagers today is very alarming. The data show about 93 out of 100 elementary school students have already consumed pornography; about 21 out of 100 young women have abortions; some 135 teenagers become victims of violence every day; 5 out of 100 adolescents contract sexually transmitted diseases; 63 out of 100 teens have sex before marriage. School teachers should take active roles in minimizing such unhappy figure and prepare the golden generation. This article proposes local culture and local moral to complete the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK+) within the challenge of the 21st century skills. The objectives are to provide pre-service English Teachers at Universitas PGRI Semarang and pre-service English teachers in general with the ability to develop English course content in the students’ cultural context as well as local characters and to equip the pre-service teachers with the 21st century skills. The subjects were 345 pre-service English Teachers who took the TEFL, Teaching Media, and ESP Courses during the academic year of 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. The data were collected through observation, teaching practice, and self-evaluation. The results show 84.92% of the students were included under the category of “good” and “very good” in pedagogical skills, 77.38 % in pedagogical content knowledge, and 87.53 % in cultural and local wisdom context in content development, but only 51.58% in technological knowledge. For improving technological knowledge of the pre-service students, there should be more training on the use of technology before and during the process of teaching and learning of pre-service English teachers.

<p class="0abstract">In Indonesia, educational technology courses have been offered in teacher preparation programs to equip students with theoretical knowledge and practical skill of utilizing technology in skill-based language teaching. Despite this, empirical studies focused on online training for EFL teacher candidates on using digital tools appropriately for pedagogical purposes and adjusting to traditional learning processes remain unexplored. Therefore, to address this gap, the present study attempts to investigate the design and implementation of a TPACK-in practice model to enhance students’ preparedness to face the rapidly-growing digital world and, more importantly, understand post-pandemic pedagogy. For this purpose, a qualitative case study was adopted. The data were obtained from multiple sources, including field notes, video-recorded classroom observation, one-on-one online interviews, and task documentation. The population of this research included 163 students in the 5^th semester of the English Language Education Study Program of a university in <em>Yogyakarta</em>, Indonesia. We selected one class randomly, consisting of 40 pre-service English teachers during the odd semester of the 2020/2021 Academic Year. Findings demonstrate: 1) lesson activity-specific model in the educational technology course, 2) students’ reports on their hands-on learning experiences in designing teaching-learning activities with a variety of digital tools, 3) the perceived benefits of reviewing ed-tech apps, and 4) challenges encountered by students in completing their project. Finally, pedagogical implications are presented with proposed suggestions offered for future research directions in replicating the study.</p>

Abstrak Pemerintah Indonesia mengeluarkan kebijakan baru evaluasi Pendidikan di Indonesia dengan mencanangkan pelaksanaan Asesmen Nasional (AN) yang akan mengganti Ujian Nasional (UN). Pelaksanaannya dicanangkan untuk dimulai pada September 2021. Skema baru ini masih menimbulkan kebingungan pada guru-guru dan sekolah. Banyak sosialisasi dan pelatihan telah dilakukan, namun tentu saja belum mencakup seluruh daerah di Indonesia. Lewat program Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat, Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris menggelar sesi training mengenai Asesmen nasional dan instrument-instrumennya seperti Asesmen Kompetensi Minimum (AKM), Survei Karakter dan Survei Lingkungan Belajar. Kegiatan ini menargetkan para guru dan sekolah di Kec. Salahutu Kab. Maluku tengah. Pelatihan ini mengundang instruktur nasional untuk AN dan dihadiri oleh 40 orang peserta. Tujuan utama pelatihgan ini adalah mengedukasi serta memberikan penguatan kapasitas kepada para guru dan sekolah mengenai ap aitu AN, AKM dan instrument-intrumennya serta bagaimana penerapannya. Hasil evaluasi kegiatan menunjukan tingkat kepuasan yang tinggi dari para peserta. Kata Kunci: Asesmen Nasional, AKM, Asesmen Kompetensi Minimal, Kesiapan Guru, Pelatihan Guru Abstract Indonesian government issued a new education evaluation policy with a new frame work called Asesmen Nasional or National Assessment. National Assessment will now be practiced in the place of Ujian Nasional or National Examination scheme. The new policy took place in September 2021. This new policy is very new and thus teachers and school management are not sure and felt not ready to implement this. There are already socialization and training taking place all over Indonesia but of course not all teachers and school are in full understanding of it. Therefore, English Education Study Program’s Community Service program was focused to educate and to strengthen the capacity of teachers and school management in Salahutu Sub District of Central Maluku regent. The training focused in National Assessment and the three instruments: AKM (Minimum Competence Assessment), Character Survey and Learning Environment Survey. The program collaborated with the national instructor for AN. 40 teachers and school’s officials were present. The feedback and evaluation result of the event shows a high satisfaction from the participants. Keywords: National Assessments, AKM, Minimum Competence Assessment, Teacher readiness, teacher training

ABSTRAK Penerapan Kurikulum Merdeka pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris di SMK mengharuskan adanya penyajian bahan ajar yang kontekstual dan mendukung kebutuhan dunia kerja, termasuk di industri kesehatan. Namun, hal ini terkendala dengan minimnya bahan ajar yang relevan di bidang ini khususnya di Kompetensi Keahlian Keperawatan. Kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pendampingan pengembangan bahan ajar bahasa Inggris untuk keperawatan bagi guru Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Pusat Keunggulan (SMK PK). Selama tiga bulan, 16 guru Bahasa Inggris dari SMK PK di suatu kota besar di Jawa Timur terlibat dalam kegiatan pendampingan ini yang meliputi lima tahapan aktifitas antara lain tahapan diskusi kelompok terpumpun, pelatihan pengembangan bahan ajar, pengembangan bahan ajar, kompilasi bahan ajar, dan evaluasi program. Dari kegiatan pendampingan ini dihasilkan bahan ajar yang diklasifikasikan ke dalam delapan topik yang berkaitan dengan keperawatan. Bahan ajar berhasil dikembangkan berdasarkan silabus yang telah disusun sebelumnya, referensi pendukung, kolaborasi antar guru dalam setiap kelompok, dan pendampingan dari anggota tim Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat. Hasil evaluasi program juga menunjukkan adanya respon positif dari para peserta pendampingan. Bahan ajar ini diharapkan akan bermanfaat dan dapat digunakan sebagai alternatif bahan ajar oleh seluruh guru Bahasa Inggris dan siswa SMK Kompetensi Keahlian Keperawatan di seluruh Indonesia. Kata Kunci: Pengembangan Bahan Ajar, Bahasa Inggris, SMK, Keperawatan ABSTRACT The implementation of “Kurikulum Merdeka” (Indonesia’s national curriculum) on English subject at vocational schools calls for contextualized learning materials catering the needs in workplace settings, including health industries. However, limited English materials in this area particularly in Nursing Skill Competency seem to hinder its implementation. The current Community Service Program aimed to provide practical guidance for English subject teachers at vocational high schools-centre of excellence (SMK PK) in developing English materials for nursing. For three months, 16 English teachers in a city in East Java had been involved in this five-stage guidance activities comprising focused group discussion, material development training, material development practice, material compilation, and evaluation. This guidance activity resulted in developed English materials classified into eight nursing-related topics. The developed materials are the product of such integrated elements as the previously developed syllabus, supporting references, teacher teamwork/collaboration, and guidance from each member of the Community Service Team. The program evaluation also revealed positive responses from the participants. The developed English materials are expected to be fruitful and used as an alternative material by all English teachers and students of Nursing Skill Competency at vocational high schools throughout Indonesia. Keywords: Material Development, English, Vocational School, Nursing

Every teacher has their own unique experiences and stories in helping their students to achieve their best in studying. Those experiences would be very beneficial if they can share those best practices to other teachers and educational practitioners. Unfortunately, it is hindered for teachers do not write those good practices in a best practice article because of particular reasons, including their lack of skill for writing such article. This paper aims to report a community service in form of a training on writing a manuscript attended by the English local teacher forum coming from various cities in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Eighteen participants were participated in this one-month training. The program was divided into two types of activities, namely training and mentoring. The training was conducted in one day aimed to introduce and to analyse samples of good articles, which were accepted in reputable international journals, so the participants could learn the characteristics and the structure of the good articles. Meanwhile, the mentoring was carried out for one month in form of weekly virtual mentoring to guide the participants write their articles step-by-step. Questionnaire and interview were utilized to record the data regarding the evaluation of the program. The findings show that the teachers got benefit from this mentoring. They understand what a best practice article is and how to write it. In the end of the program, two out of five teams successfully completed the mentoring and published their article in a national journal. Some barriers during the training and mentoring are also discussed in this article.

This study aims to determine the effect of the whole language approach to the ability to read and write in English in early stages of children aged 5-6 years in one of the kindergartens in the Yogyakarta Special Region. The population in this study were 43 children who were in the age range of 5-6 years in the kindergarten. Twenty-nine participants were included in the experimental class subjects as well as the control class with posttest only control group design. Observation is a way to record data in research on early reading and writing ability. 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