Ahmad Jawahir

  Abstract The recent research was conducted with the background that there was no study and less information about digital platforms launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, especially  Guru Belajar dan Berbagi  (Teachers Learning and Sharing). The research questioned what Guru  Belajar dan Berbagi  meant and how its user teachers responded to it. It aimed at explaining the definition and characteristics of the portal, and at discovering how it was responded by its user teachers. It used a descriptive qualitative approach. The data were collected through literature review and questionnaires toward 29 SMA Negeri 7 Cirebon teachers. The research found that  Guru Belajar dan Berbagi  was a digital portal comprising two platforms,  Guru Belajar  and  Guru Berbagi , used by the teachers to develop their profession.  Guru Belajar  Platform was adopted by the teachers based on their internal motivation, and  Guru Berbagi  was used to find new instructional id

  Abstract The main problem of the recent study is how the concept of English teacher Continuing Professional Development is reviewed from Everett Rogers’ Innovation Diffusion Theory. So, the research aimed at finding the review of the Innovation Diffusion Theory of Rogers toward the concept of Continuing Professional Development of English teachers in Indonesia. This study employed library research as the method and the researcher himself as the instrument to collect data deriving from books as a primer resource and ministry regulation and journal articles as secondary resources. It was conducted through several stages ranging from selecting topics based on the problem; exploring information related to the topic; determining research focus; reading the books, regulations and articles as data resources; recording what was found as research data; and, processing the recorded data. Data were analyzed through induction and interpretation. The result showed that teacher continuing professi

  Abstract The paper reports the research “Improving Reading Comprehension Skill through QTB Strategy.” It aimed at discovering the effectiveness of reading comprehension instruction, the use of reading comprehension strategies, and the improvement of reading comprehension skill. The research was conducted through the Class Action Research (CAR) method in two cycles, each going with three phases: plan, act and observe, and reflect. It was given to the twelfth graders of Science Program 2 in SMA Negeri 1 Babakan Kabupten Cirebon. The data were collected from the subjects through structured observation, questionnaire, and written reading comprehension test. The first was instrumented with checklist formats to record the data of instructional plan, teaching performance, and learning performance. The second was to record the data of students’ knowledge and application of reading strategies. And the third was to record the data of students’ reading comprehension skills. The data were then a