Effectiveness of training program in improving teachers' skills in developing teaching modules at SMA Negeri 7 Palu

Abstract

The Merdeka Belajar curriculum is a curriculum that aims to restore the authority to manage education to local governments and schools according to their needs, capacities and local wisdom. This curriculum has been officially launched in early 2022, until now teachers are still not familiar, especially regarding teaching modules based on the independent curriculum. Therefore, it is very appropriate to collaborate with MGMP biology teachers and biology education lecturers at Tadulako University to assist these teachers in training activities for the preparation of teaching modules based on the independent curriculum. This research aims to increase the capacity of teachers in developing independent curriculum teaching modules so that teachers can have more time to become learning facilitators. This research was conducted as a pre-experiment, with a One group pretest-postest design. The treatment given was in the form of training on Teaching Modules at SMAN 7 Palu. The samples of this study were teachers of SMA Negeri 7 Palu and 18 final year undergraduate students as training participants. The implementation of this research starts from the preparation stage, training implementation and evaluation. Data analysis used Wilcoxon Test to test the effectiveness of training and N-Gain to determine the improvement of teachers' skills. Training is an effective effort to develop teachers' ability to develop teaching modules in accordance with the independent curriculum. The teaching module training program succeeded in improving the knowledge and skills of teachers at SMA Negeri 7 Palu. The results of data analysis showed a significant increase in the assessment of teacher skills before and after training. Statistical tests and N-Gain showed that the training program was effective in improving teachers' skills in developing teaching modules.