Conference of the English Education Program Management

Yogyakarta, 16-18, 2006

Dr. Bismoko and Dr. Dwijatmoko from Sanata Dharma University intiated to have all the English Edcuation Department Heads to get together. The talk was meant to get to know each others’ program, how to update it, and to discuss the issue of teachers’ certification already in the discussion of the Natioanal Education Department.

So, there were 98 representatives from teacher training institutions around Indonesia coming to the 2-days meeting. RELO was able to provide funding for the admin and proceeding of the conference and provide accomodation for participants coming from outside Yogyakarta.

As guest speakers, there was Mr. Bahrul from the Education Quality Assurance Directorate sharing about the governments strategic plan re. Teachers Certification. Dr. Sadtono and Dr. Bismoko shared about the English Education programs, Dr. Helena talked about the Competency Based Curriculum in general and Damon Anderson talked shortly about the English Education in Higher Education.

After the pleanary and brainstorming sessions, participants were divided into 3 big groups to address 3 different big topics, i.e. Teachers’ Certification, Curriculum for Profession Courses, and Standardization of the English Education Program. There was also an issue of forming another English Teaching Professional organization, but the big group could not into an agreement, with a strong consideration of not hurting the existing organization now, TEFLIN.

On January 30th, there was a follow up meeting in Universitas Negeri Semarang, with 10 representative participants designing a recommendation that would be brought to the QA Directorate as an input of the Certification processing now being further discsusses in MONE. Again, RELO played an important role by providing tranport allowance for thos soming from outside Semarang.

On February 6th, 6 representatives (Dr. Bismoko, Dr. Dwijatmoko, Prof. Sadtono, Itje Chodidjah, RELO Damon Anderson and Kun Herrini)met Dr. Bahrul Hayt at the QA Directorate, MONE.