Teachers’ Professional Development Through Journal Writing

Asdar Asdar

Abstract


Teachers have many tasks that they should do. So, they have to be professional in teaching. One of the ways to be professional is to know how to think critically toward their teaching. In this case, journal writing will help them to know about their strength and weakness in teaching. Based on the observation done by the writer, some teachers think that journal writing helps them to reflect about their teaching in the classroom. But the others feel that it is too difficult to conduct. In this paper, the researcher tried to explain the complete result of his observation toward the real situation teachers in their teaching and learning process as well as their attitude toward journal writing and give some solutions for increasing their ability to think critically toward journal writing.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30870/aiselt.v0i0.10874

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