Assessing the Implementation of Teachers’ Community (MGMP) as a Medium for Ongoing Professional Development to Enhance English Teachers’ Professional Competence
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.093How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Teachers’ Community, professional development, competence
- Abstract
The Indonesian government has provided several teachers’ professional development programs for the last few years. Those programs are provided to enhance teachers’ competencies. Teachers’ community (MGMP, henceforth) is one of them. This study aims at describing: 1) the teachers’ perceptions about their competencies after participating in MGMP, 2) the implementation of MGMP to enhance English teachers’ competencies, 3) the hindering factors influence their participation in MGMP. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The subjects were the English teachers, committee, and coordinator of the Central Zone Junior High school English teacher MGMP in Selong, East Lombok, a committee, and a coordinator of the MGMP. In collecting the data, the following procedures were applied: interview, observation, and documentation. The results showed that all of the subjects provided positive views on the implementation of MGMP. The participants perceived that MGMP enhanced their competencies. The results also showed that the implementation of MGMP worked effectively. Meanwhile, the schedule and the rolling system were the hindering factors influence teachers’ participation in MGMP.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Syaifuddin Iskandar AU - Darmanto Darmanto AU - Erma Suryani PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/28 TI - Assessing the Implementation of Teachers’ Community (MGMP) as a Medium for Ongoing Professional Development to Enhance English Teachers’ Professional Competence BT - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 363 EP - 367 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.093 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.093 ID - Iskandar2020 ER -