Building Resilience of the Christian Education Teachers in Developing Students Potentials in Digital Era

Abstract

The Christian Education teachers are required to be able to use technological information in learning not only to create brilliant students intellectually but also to shape the good character of students. Therefore, they must master the skills of the 21st century learning so that they can answer the needs of students of this era who are excel in technology. Using the theory from International Society for Technology in Education translated by Daryanto and Syaiful Karim, this study aimed to find out the resilence of Christian Education teachers in North Sulawesi, to propose and to implement the resilience of Christian Education teachers in digital era. This study applied descriptive qualitative research method which is also called naturalistic inquiry or naturalistic approach. Based on the research, it showed that the Christian education teachers in North Sulawesi still have the tendency to be trapped in manual learning system which is not relevant anymore with the 21st century context and they are less competitive and difficult to adapt with the learning demand of the 21st century.