Authors:
Punaji Setyosari
;
Taufik Ikhsan Slamet
;
Saida Ulfa
and
Herlina Ike Oktaviani
Affiliation:
Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Teachers Profiles, TPCK, 21st Century Learning, Teacher Professional Development
Abstract:
Technology-supported learning is intended to facilitate students with dozen of experiences which guide them to build their self–regulated learning and higher-order thinking. While technology are potential to bring meaningful learning activities, teachers typically only use drill and practice technique which has been proven that is not sufficient to improve students higher-order thinking skill. Even more, technology brings some negative effect when it is associated by the use of drill and practice technique. In today’s professional teacher development strategies, our education system faces a great need in improving the teacher’s capability to integrate technology-mediated learning in their teaching. This demand requires a guideline which effectively and efficiently lead policy maker to conduct feasible policy and appropriate strategy. TPCK framework as a basis of measurement and assessment of teacher’s professional skills has been used in many studies in many countries across the cont
inents. It has successfully predicted the level of technology, pedagogy, and content comprehension of teachers and provided worthwhile information for the condition. TPCK is not only used as a framework to measure, but also it plays important role in developing critical skills of teaching. The genuine goal of education system nowadays and the future is knowledge building. In supporting to the goal, TPCK positively bring strong advantages to assess, measure, and provide guideline in improving quality of teacher’s professional development actions.
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