Mode inservice training: an alternative model for teachers professional development in Indonesia

Abstract

As part of the efforts to improve the quality of education, improving teachers' competencies are given significant attention by the Indonesian government, especially during the last few years. Indeed, a number of teachers professional development program have been launched by the government in the previous years. It seems, however, that they brought very little impact on the improvement of teachers teaching practice and the improvement of students' achievement. Teachers' professional development programs in Indonesia encountered with difficult problems due to the Indonesia geographical nature, limited budget, and the large number of the teachers. As a result teachers' professional development programs can only cover a very small number of the teachers. An alternative teachers' professional development is needed to complement the existing teachers' professional development programs. This paper deals with a dual mode in-service training program that combines a classical in-service training and an internet training program. In this training mode some part of the programs are provided through a classical training to a group of teachers and some other parts are provided in a web. The result presented here is the result of the first year study of a three-year research project.