TPACK Profile of Biology Teachers in the Learning Process after the Numerical Taxonomy and Its Learning Training Program
Hidayat, Topik- Rafadewi A. Putri, Amalianneisha- Purwianingsih, Widi

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

This study was aimed to analyze how the TPACK profiles of biology teachers in their learning process in the class after participating in numerical taxonomy and its learning training program. TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) is a construction of knowledge that must be supported by its development that further must be possessed by teachers in facing the education in 21st era. Numerical taxonomy and its learning training are conducted as training programs aiming at developing biology teacher^s TPACK in the content of classification of living things. This training equips biology teachers with the knowledge needed to integrate TPACK components into the learning process including contents related to TPACK and to the classification of living things especially numerical taxonomy,learning technology, learning strategies, and methods to integrate TPACK into the learning process. This research is a descriptive study whose data of biology teachers^ TPACK in learning process were obtained from PaP-eRs and the results of learning performance assessment. The results showed that biology teachers^ TPACK in the learning process after numerical taxonomy training showed good results and there has been an interactive phase between the TPACK components in the learning process. This is proven by teachers^ ability to develop good PaP-eRs and teachers^ good performance based on the learning assessment results. It was further found that the use of technology in learning process has been optimally applied by teachers, meanwhile, the delivery of motivation and misconception were less developed by the teachers during the implementation of TPACK learning process.

Keywords: TPACK, Numerical Taxonomy, Classification of Living Things, Biology Teacher, Training Program

Topic: Biology Education