The Rumah Inovasi Program to improve the competence of developer teachers
Eka Murdani (a*), Andi Suhandi (b), Ari Widodo (b)

a) Doctoral Program of Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
*ekamurdani[at]upi.edu
b) Department of Science Education, Post-Graduate School, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

The vision of the Rumah Inovasi Program is to produce collaborator-teachers, reflectors, problem solvers, and decision-makers in science learning. The purpose of the Rumah Inovasi is to improve teacher competence in developing curriculum, developing lesson plans (objectives, steps, and assessments), developing learning technology, and developing skills for collaboration, reflection, problem-solving, and decision making in groups (teamwork). Continuous development of teacher professionalism is based on the following principles: Target key sustainability competencies, Foster sustainability leaders, Support co-learning, Intensive and long-term contact, Engaging pedagogy, Practiced oriented, and Formative evaluation. The target of key sustainability competencies in the program to be designed is to develop a curriculum and develop learning plans to promote: problem analysis, critical thinking, creativity, and decision making based on content, as well as based on the relationship of content to education, career, and life goals. The program designed will foster teachers as foster sustainability leaders by targeting problem-solving and decision-making competencies for problems or cases given to teacher participants and putting them into lesson plans and putting them into classroom learning (practiced oriented). The lesson plan developed must involve pedagogy (engaging pedagogy) and support mutual learning between students (support co-learning). The lesson plan is presented and its implementation in the classroom is made into a video recording and will be given intensive input and criticism by the expert team for formative evaluation. Even though the expert team provides input for evaluation considerations, the teacher should be the true evaluator. The provision of the ability to evaluate formative learning is expected to take place sustainably. Program managers provide space and time by providing a platform: ask the teacher, through the Rumah Inovasi website.

Keywords: Rumah Inovasi, Teacher Professional Development, Developer Teacher, Reflective Teacher

Topic: ESD in Science Education