Webinars and english teachers’ participation in professional development program

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Sanjaya, Muchammad Isa Zidan (2023) Webinars and english teachers’ participation in professional development program. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

In this digital era, online networks have been developing fast and affected many aspects of life including education. Because of this rapid changes teachers also need to upgrade their skills and knowledge in order to keep up with technology and refine their way of teaching, and this is when online network also play its role to facilitate their professional development by providing various source of information, like oTPD (online Teacher Professional Development) programs as one of facilities. Therefore, the goal of this research is to find out teachers’ experience in participating in professional development and to elaborate teachers’ participation in webinars in order to assist their professional development. Five teachers of SMPN 3 Waru participated as the subjects for the source of data in this research. Descriptive qualitative method was used in this study which involves interviewing for obtaining the data. The results show that teachers encountered a lot of great and important experiences in participating in webinars, also webinars gave quite improvements on their teaching expertise. By joining webinars, teachers can learn how to operate IT programs, create modules & media for learning processes, and modify teaching methods. Then, teachers feel that it is important to join webinars in order to add more knowledge, share knowledge with others and simple ways to get information all of that through online. Moreover, webinars have benefits for teachers which offer time flexibility, new friends, skills development, and ideas exchange. However, webinars also bear some lacks and challenges within, such as difficult to concentrate, less interaction, the duration is too long, and unstable internet connection, while the challenges are schedule conflicts, inconvenient time to start, and requirement of ASN (Aparatur Sipil Negara) registration number. At last, teachers admitted that their abilities are enhanced after taking part in webinars which organize the classroom better, craft attractive learning media, and develop strategies in motivating the students to learn course materials. The conclusion of this study is that teachers experienced many topics of webinars which are necessary to be participated in to develop their pedagogical knowledge. In addition, teachers majorly approved that webinars are capable of positively influencing teachers’ performance in the classroom.

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Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Creators:
CreatorsEmailNIM
Sanjaya, Muchammad Isa Zidansanjaya.zidan64@gmail.comD75219041
Contributors:
ContributionNameEmailNIDN
Thesis advisorMadjid, Hilda Izzatihilda.izzati.madjid@gmail.com2010028601
Thesis advisorRakhmawati, Rakhmawatirakhmawati@uinsby.ac.id--
Subjects: English Learning
Ilmu Komunikasi
Teknologi > Teknologi Informasi
Keywords: Online network; webinar; teachers’ participations; professional development; teachers’ experiences
Divisions: Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Zidan Sanjaya
Date Deposited: 12 Sep 2023 05:33
Last Modified: 12 Sep 2023 05:54
URI: http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/64960

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