scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER’S ATTITUDE, READINESS AND SELF- EFFICACY ON PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY (PLC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Adriana Muhamad Akhir ◽  
Muhamad Suhaimi Taat ◽  
Syahrul Nizam Salam

The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of teacher’s attitude, readiness, and self-efficacy on the implementation of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) at urban secondary school teachers in Sabah. Quantitative studies using the survey method were used in this study which involved the total number of 360 teachers as the respondents in this study. Questionnaires were used as the instrument to collect the data. The data obtained were analyzed through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 25.0 and AMOS. The statistical analysis used were descriptive statistics involving frequency and percentage while inferential statistics involving multiple regression and SEM (path analysis) were used. The results of the structural model of path analysis showed that all three predictor variables were significantly affected by the criterion variable with 18.8%. Teacher’s self-efficacy was found to have the greatest direct impact on the implementation of PLC with the beta value of 0.30. The implications of this study are to increase the level of attitude and readiness of teachers towards the implementation of PLC so that the teachers will possess a high level of self-efficacy. It is hoped that this study will help to formulate new policies related to teacher professionalism development.

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 843-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zheng ◽  
Hongbiao Yin ◽  
Zhanglin Li

The study explored the relationships among instructional leadership, professional learning community components, and teacher self-efficacy in the context of mainland China. Study subjects were 1082 elementary school teachers participating in a questionnaire survey. The results showed that instructional leadership had significant effects on the five professional learning community components, four of which, collaborative activity, collective focus on student learning, de-privatized practice, and reflective dialogue, positively predicted teacher self-efficacy. Analysis showed that collaborative activity, de-privatized practice, and reflective dialogue significantly mediated the effects of instructional leadership on teacher self-efficacy. Implications for school leadership and teacher learning are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (37) ◽  
pp. 221-231
Author(s):  
Adriana Muhamad Akhir ◽  
Muhamad Suhaimi Taat ◽  
Syahrul Nizam Salam

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship as well as the direct and indirect influence of teacher attitude, readiness, and self-efficacy on the implementation of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) of urban secondary school teachers in Sabah. The level of teacher attitude, readiness, and self-efficacy as the independent variable and Professional Learning Community (PLC) as the dependent variable. This study was carried out using questionnaires instruments. This study involved 360 teachers comprising north zone, south zone, west coast zone, east coast zone, eastern zone in Sabah who have been selected through the cluster and simple random sampling. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package For Science (SPSS) version 21.0 to get accurate results. The study found that there was a significant relationship between the three independent variables and the dependent variable. The self-efficacy variable showed the strongest and significant relationship compared to the other two variables with a relationship strength of 0.396 (p <0.01). It is hoped that this study will provide useful information for improving the implementation of the Professional Learning Community in each school.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Siti Noor Ismail ◽  
Wan Rosni Wan Yakob ◽  
Noraida Mustapai ◽  
Tuan Roslina Tuan Mat

The Professional Learning Community (PLC) practice is a strategy to encourage collaboration among teachers in schools to create more quality of teaching and student achievement can be improved. However, the practice of PLC is still not fully implemented because there are still school leaders who are incompetent in management and also teachers do not understand the practice of PLC in more depth. Therefore, this study aims to identify the level of PLC practice and the level of teacher motivation in five secondary schools, Jeli District. Quantitative methods are used where the questionnaire is as a research instrument. A total of 171 teachers in the schools participated by answering the questionnaires that were distributed. The research instrument to measure PLC practice was adapted from the Professional Learning Community Assessment-Revised (PLCA-R) while the Assessment of Teacher Motivation Questionnaire (ATMQ) was used to measure the level of teacher motivation. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 26.0. The results of the study found that the practice of PLC and teacher motivation is implemented at a high level. The implications of this study showed that the practice of KPP is very important to be implemented in schools to increase teacher motivation which in turn can further improve the quality of teaching and learning towards student excellence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-291
Author(s):  
Cucun Sunaengsih ◽  
Aan Komariah ◽  
Isrokatun Isrokatun ◽  
Mayang Anggarani ◽  
Sindy Silfiani

This research aims at illustrating the implementation of Professional Learning Community (PLC) programs, which later will be used to be the basic data for the preparation of PLC program design that is applicable and easily implemented by the teachers. The low contribution and discontinuity of teachers in the PLC programs in primary schools have impacted on the lack of optimization of the PLC programs as a support for sustained improvement of teacher professionalism. This research employed a descriptive research design with a survey approach involving 52 primary school teachers in Sumerdang Regency. The research results revealed that even though the teachers’ understanding of the PLC program objectives was very high, the teachers’ understanding of the PLC program mechanism was still low. Thus, this resulted in the low level of the implementation of the PLC program in primary schools, both in programs and regulations. Therefore, further research is expected to produce the operational, structured, and applicable PLC programs in order to increase the teachers’ participation in implementing the PLC programs for improving teacher professionalism, and having a real impact on the improvement of the quality of learning in primary schools.


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