Continuous Professional Development to Improve the Teachers’ Competencies

Abstract

This scientific idea aims at contributing insights to teachers on continuous professional development as an effort to improve their competencies. The continuous professional development carried out is in compliance with the need, in stages, and sustainably so as to improve professionalism. Its elements include self-developments, scientific publications, and innovative works. The scientific idea is focused on the second element, namely: scientific publications of the results of researches by teachers. The method employed to prepare the scientific idea was the descriptive qualitative one. Its data sources were informants and documents. The data were collected through observation and in-depth interview. The former was to observe the form of the teachers’ continuous professional development, and the latter was to collect the pieces of information related to their insights of continuous professional development. They were systemically and structurally analyzed by using the descriptive qualitative model of analysis. The result of this scientific idea concludes that the teachers must be active in the continuous professional development particularly the second element, namely: scientific publications of the results of researches by the teachers in the form of scholarly papers. With the attempt, the teachers will be able to improve their competencies.