A NEED ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS THROUGH SELF-ASSESSMENT

Abstract

Many homeroom teachers of elementary schools are demanded to teach English. Meanwhile they lack of knowledge of English teaching. They need a professional development program that can assist them to improve their teaching competence. Therefore, this research is aimed at analyzing the needs of teacher professional development program by assessing English elementary school teachers through selfassessment. It is descriptive quantitative research that involves 30 elementary teachers who have English teaching experience. A survey was conducted to find out teachers' weaknesses that could portray teachers' teaching needs. The result shows that most teachers assumed their speaking and listening skills were in below average level. In terms of pedagogical competence, they assessed themselves as insufficient in determining English teaching method, giving appropriate assessment, applying various and fun English learning, teaching speaking & teaching listening. Thus, a teacher professional development program should be able to facilitate teachers to improve these professional and pedagogical aspects.