The purpose of this study was to examine the design of a digital competency training program to improve the digital competence of teachers at the elementary school level. This study used a quasi-experimental method with a pretest and posttest design. The participants in this study were elementary school teachers from Yogyakarta. There were 800 teachers involved with the composition of 400 experimental class teachers and 400 control class teachers. This digital literacy program is carried out through several stages, namely the pre-test, intervention, and post-test stages. This digital literacy program lasts for one semester or 6 months with the main objective of improving the digital competence of teachers from three aspects, namely conceptual, procedural, and attitudes towards digital competence of teachers. The results showed that the intervention of this program was able to significantly improve the digital skills of teachers. The increase in digital skills of teachers in the experimental group is marked by increasing digital skills in three aspects, namely conceptual, procedural, and attitudinal digital competencies. The implication of this research is that digital competency training programs can be an alternative for stakeholders in order to improve teacher competencies while improving school quality.
Keywords: Digital competence of teachers, digital competence training program, Internet, digital literacy.
The results showed that the level of academic anxiety experienced by junior high
school students in the Province of Special District of Yogyakarta can be categorized
as moderate. It was also revealed that Guidance and Counseling teachers also have
been doing something in reducing these problems by providing counseling either
individually or in groups to their students and using a variety of appropriate approaches
and techniques, though it was not maximized. Based on these results, the need for
more simple and techniques can then be applied when the Guidance and Counseling
teachers provide individual counseling services. One technique which can be given
is the SEFT technique (Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique). Due to the problems
above, this research aims to produce SEFT-based individual counseling skills model in
reducing the student’s academic anxiety.
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