Improving Teachers’ Professionalism Through Blended-Based Training in Indonesia's Remote Area

Abstract

Blended-based training is a best alternative choice for equalization of training in Indonesia's district area in the Covid-19 pandemic era considering the low competency of teachers in Indonesia at this time. This research was applied on improving the teachers' professionalism in Indonesia's remote area in order to act their main roles on preparing the learning administration. The research method used was experimental research by one-group pre-test and post-test design. Research subject were from normative and adaptive teacher at in remote areas of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia with 31 teachers. The instrument which used was portfolio and individual test by writing the lesson plan and all tasks collected by google drive. The data analysis technique was performed using SPSS Statistic 20 by one simple paired t-test. The result of this study showed that blended-based training could improve the teachers' profesionalism where the significan value (2-tailed) was 0.00 < 0.05. It mean that there was a significant difference of values where the post-test score was bigger than the pretest score.

Virtualization of Teacher Training on Improving of Online Teaching Competence for the Students of Riau Island University in Indonesia

“…Teacher competence could be improved through several efforts, one of the proven efforts was through training. This was in line with teachers (Slameto et al, 2017), (Qomariah, 2020), and (Pohan et al, 2021) Particularly, the trainees were trained to improve skills in using online learning media, the ability to provide reinforcement and the ability to implement relevant learning methods.…”

“…The results of previous empirical studies showed that the online and offline training have significant effect on increasing teacher competence. The results of the research by Pohan, et al (2021) showed that online training has successfully to improve the competence of teachers in the outer regions of Indonesia. Teachers could attend training flexibly without leaving the workplace and without high payment.…”

“…Teacher competence can also be improved through regular training. The results of empirical studies show that attending training can improve teacher knowledge, teacher competence, and teacher performance outcomes (Slameto et al, 2017), (Qomariah, 2020), and (Pohan et al, 2021).…”

Onlinalisasi peningkatan kompetensi mahasiswa calon guru di Universitas Riau Kepulauan Batam

“…Kompetensi guru juga dapat ditingkatkan melalui pelatihan secara rutin. Hasil studi empiris menunjukkan bahwa mengikuti pelatihan dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan guru, kompetensi guru, dan hasil kinerja guru (Slameto et al, 2017), (Qomariah, 2020, dan (Pohan et al, 2021).…”

“…Hasil studi empiris terdahulu menunjukkan bahwa pelatihan online maupun offline berpengaruh signifikan terhadap peningkatan kompetensi guru. Hasil penelitian Pohan et al, (2021) menunjukkan bahwa pelatihan online dapat meningkatkan kompetensi guru di daerah terluar Indonesia. Guru dapat mengikuti pelatihan secara fleksibel tanpa meninggalkan tempat kerja.…”