Abstract
<p class="Abstract">The paper aims at analyzing teachers’ poor professionalism of writing a scientific paper at Muhammadiyah Senior High School in Central Java. It studies on the phenomena of teachers’ weaknesses, comprehension, efforts and constraints on writing a scientific paper. The study belongs to qualitative research by applying a descriptive approach in examining the problem. The data are got with an in-depth interview, observation, and document analysis. The data sources are teachers, headmaster, a chief of High and Preliminary Education Assembly, and educational experts. Data validation is conducted by methods and sources triangulation. The data analysis applies the interactive model.The research result shows that most teachers have a limited comprehension of scientific paper concepts, skill on conducting classroom action research and writing a scientific paper. Also, they also have some constraints such as lack of writing motivation, school infrastructure, and internet connection access. In eliminating those problems, firstly Muhammadiyah senior high school (SMA/MA/SMK) teachers of Sukoharjo district have done some activities to develop their professional competence especially in the field of writing a scientific paper. In supporting their efforts, it needs a concrete step of stakeholder to simplify of all regarding with learning administrative activities, facilities adequacy motivation, the initiative of Assembly of Elementary and Middle Education, and others sponsorship, as well as the guidance of university. </p>
Highlights
Teacher as the educator, instructed with Act number 14 year 2005, has a pedagogical competences or skills for transfering knowledge to the students
The teacher should familiar with the Act in order that they understand their duties in their teaching learning process
It implies that the teachers have to improve their professionalism
Summary
Teacher as the educator, instructed with Act number 14 year 2005, has a pedagogical competences or skills for transfering knowledge to the students. Teachers’ professionalism development is carried out based on institutional needs, teachers’ group, and teacher itself It is in line with Danim (via Syaefudin Sa’ud, 2009) saying that teachers development is programmed to respond, keep, and improve staff quality to address the teachers’ organization problem. Those teachers’ developments based on institutional needs are so crucial, but the important one is based on the teacher needs itself to run the professionalism process. It is well-viewed to formulate continued teachers’ professional development model based on collaborative-constructivist to improve soft-skill-transferable skills of teachers in writing a scientific paper. Based on the background of the study above, the research is intended to (1) describe the teachers’ continuous professionalism development mapping, in particular of activity related with writing a scientific paper, (2) describe teachers’ comprehension of writing a scientific paper, and (3) describe the efforts and their constrains of developing writing a scientific paper competence
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