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PROGRAM OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE WRITING TRAINING: TOWARDS QUALIFIED TEACHERS. Writing scientific articles is one of teacher’ efforts to improve their quality and develop their professionalism. Unfortunately, their reading interest and wriitng habit are still low. This makes the teachers have difficulties when they have to submit a promotion because they do not have enough background knowledge and understanding in writing scientific articles, while one of the requirements for submitting a promotion is to publish a scientific article. Therefore, a training on scientific article writing was held for teachers in Situbondo to provide knowledge and skills for them to write scientific articles. After participating in this activity, teachers are expected to be able to publish scientific articles and be able to improve the quality and professionalism of their work so that the quality of education becomes better.

Few know that comic strips can be used in educational contexts, particularly in English language classrooms. If associated with the purpose of language teaching, the use of comic strips is to facilitate students to develop their three learning domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Integrating comic strips in classroom activities will make the process of learning more meaningful. In Indonesian context, the teaching and learning process utilising comics is still rare to find. Most Indonesian EFL teachers usually only focus on enhancing students’ reading comprehension skill when using comic strips in their teaching. They ignore other objectives such as providing the students’ other language skills, introducing the culture embedded, or sharping students’ learning domains. Such a problem occurs because the teachers do not know and are not sure of how to find good and suitable comics for their students. In addition to that, many teachers admit that it is quite difficult to prove and to convince the parents that comics can be used as stimulating, pedagogically-suitable learning media. Concerning the issue, this paper presents a comprehensive explanation on the nature of comic that suits the purpose of EFL/ESL teaching and and offers some best practices for English teachers to utilize comic strips in their teaching. It is expected that after reading this paper, EFL teachers in Indonesia can explore their belief and practice in implementing comics and bring up a new trend in EFL classroom.

Training in Developing Instructional Videos for teachers at MTs Nurul Huda Paowan. During the pandemic, the learning process at MTS Nurul Huda experienced a decline in the quality of learning. This is because the learning system has changed from conventional to online. The limited online learning facilities owned by students make teachers at MTs Nurul Huda not optimal in carrying out learning. The use of learning media for online learning has never been carried out because teachers did not have a good understanding of teaching media and lack the skills to make instructional videos as appropriate teaching media during the pandemic. Therefore, we tried to offer solutions to overcome these problems by providing training on making learning videos using smartphones for MTS teachers Nurul Huda. The implementation of this activity was carried out for approximately a month with the following details: counseling, two training activities, and evaluation. This training utilized the Kinemaster application as an instructional video maker tool for teachers. The evaluation was carried out in two ways, with participants and with team members of the activity. The result of this activity is an increase in teachers' understanding of the importance of teaching media which is marked by their high interest and enthusiasm during the training. In addition, this activity also resulted in an increase in the quality and professionalism of teachers which was marked by the instructional videos they produced.

Bahasa Inggris sudah mulai diperkenalkan di tingkatan sekolah dasar walaupun posisinya hanya sebagai mata pelajaran muatan lokal. Hal ini dikarenakan sekolah-sekolah di daerah terpencil tidak memiliki guru yang dapat mengajar mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Namun di banyak sekolah terpencil, sering ditemukan masalah seperti tidak adanya pengajar Bahasa Inggris terlatih dan media ajar yang mendukung. Masalah-masalah ini juga ditemukan di SD Negeri 6 Tambak Ukir Kecamatan Kendit Kabupaten Situbondo. Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris di sekolah tidak maksimal karena tidak adanya media ajar Bahasa Inggris. Solusi untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut adalah dengan mengembangkan media ajar big book. Tampilan big book yang penuh warna dan menarik membuat siswa lebih tertarik untuk belajar. Maka dari itu, tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan big book sebagai media ajar alternatif yang dapat dipakai untuk mengajar mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris di SD Negeri 6 Tambak Ukir. Model penelitian dan pengembangan (research and development) yang dipakai diadaptasi dari model Gall dkk (2003). Ada empat tahap dalam proses pengembangan ini yaitu analisis masalah, pengembangan produk, uji coba produk, dan revisi produk. Hasil akhir dari pengembangan ini adalah poduk pendidikan, yaitu sepuluh big book dengan beberapa jenis tema dilengkapi dengan petunjuk penggunaan. Instrumen yang dipakai dari tahap awal ampai akhir adalah kuesioner, petunjuk evaluasi media ajar, lembar observasi, dan pedoman wawancara. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah satu set big book dengan tema: numbers, letters, body parts, farm animals, colors, greetings and leave-takings, family members, occupations, playground, dan narrative. Setelah melalui tahap validasi dan uji coba, big book ini terbukti valid, efektif, dan praktis.