The implementation of community partnership program to improve the quality of online learning during the covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the teaching and learning process in schools, which was initially carried out face-to-face under normal conditions. This research aims to determine the effect of community partnership programs on mathematics teacher's ability to develop the right online learning tools for students during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a non-experimental pretest/post-test research with the sample population consisting of a total of 47 teachers of Muhammadiyah junior high school in Sleman Regency, Indonesia. The purposive sampling technique was used to obtain data from 21 mathematics teachers of the sample population through a questionnaire and analyzed using the paired sample t-test. The results showed that there are differences in the teacher's ability to develop Subject Specific Pedagogy (SSP) based on the Learning Management System (LMS) before and after receiving training. Furthermore, the results of the paired sample t-test show that teacher's ability to develop LMS-based SSP improved after training. This study concludes that the Community Partnership program can effectively improve teachers' ability to manage the mathematics learning process online. The novelty of this study is to integrate SSP into online learning using a LMS. This online learning can be a solution when face-to-face learning cannot be done, for example during the COVID-19 pandemic.