Abstract:

The quality of education depends on the quality of the teachers. This axiom is very well known among educators, including in Indonesia. A lot of teacher professional development has been delivered all across the Indonesian archipelago. Hence, the delivery of the program is more into ‘hit and run’, where teachers’ professional development is conducted but not followed by proper monitoring and evaluation. Furthermore, the training delivered was usually not preceded by appropriate professional development needs analysis. Consequently, this approach raised issues of how well the trainings answered the teachers’ needs, and how effective those trainings to the teachers in doing their day to day activities .The conditions described earlier, brought the Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute (SFTI), a professional philanthropic organization that specializes in providing teachers and school leaders in Indonesia with pedagogical and school management professional development programs, into awareness of the importance of the well planned monitoring and evaluation programs to measure the effect of teacher training. This paper describes the condition of the teachers’ professional development through training programs in Indonesia and the practice by the SFTI.

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This paper is presented at the  ”Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Professional Development in Asia and Europe”. 29-30 June in Bergisch, Gladbach/Germany.