Teacher professional development and practices: a case study of an english teacher writer

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Layly, Illa Nur (2022) Teacher professional development and practices: a case study of an english teacher writer. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Teachers play an important role in actualizing competitive Indonesian education. With that role, every teacher must be able to continually develop his or her professionalism according to the demands of the era. Development of professional teaching is the development of teacher competence carried out according to need, gradual, sustained gain to improve the quality of the teaching. Qualitative case studies investigated about the writing activities are undertaken by the English teacher to support her professional development, and the writing activities contribute to the professional development of English teacher’s. Interview guidelines and observation checklists are used as instruments of this research, which Humba and Semion Hamba Karange. The result of this study about writing activities undertaken by English teachers are writing books both fiction or nonfiction, and writing articles about scientific or non-scientific treatises to be published on her personal blog and WordPress account. And also, the result of this study about the writing activities contribute to professional development of English teachers, namely, with this writing activity the teacher can find new things that could be used to develop teaching methods for her teaching practices. Either from reference sources when the teacher wrote an article, or any new idea a teacher gets, when designing a treatise, and that idea can be applied to her learning activity. Furthermore, the writing activities contribute to professional development of English teacher’s with several programs, namely; certification program, supervision program, workshop/training, teaching practices, and innovation work. And also, the writing activity has had a great positive effect on the teacher’s professional development, because the more the teacher writes, the more her professional development improves. And also, This finding can be reference for the other teacher to motivate them to write, other education institute to informs select and design training activities for teachers at the school to develop professional of the teacher one of them with writing activities, and for future research to become reading resources and substance considerations for future research which have the same discussion about the teacher’s professional development.