Classroom Action Research Workshop

I'm now sitting again for a two day workshop about CLassroom Action Research or it is shortened as "CAR" or popular with "PTK" in bahasa.( Then I'll use PTK for my writing).

PTK is a new trend for thesis making for University students in Teacher Training Education Faculty. This case comes up for students in Teacher Training Education Faculty will involve in teaching learning process when they have graduated. In teaching teachers will face some problems regard to students, the teaching process, making lesson plan and so forth. By getting familiar with PTK since the early beginning, the teacher training Education students will not find difficulties in making a such thesis. Moreover, as teachers, having PTK is a must for them one day.

PTK has many functions. The first: it can be used to be a teacher portfolio in passing through certification program. The second, PTK is used to get promotion. The third, for any other incentive given by government, it needs PTK as the requirement. Briefly, we can say that PTK is a card to draw some money.

Since PTK is so promising to get an extra income, teachers will be hurried to work on it. This reason, however,create a kind of manipulation in making PTK.It is found that many teachers just grab the exist PTK to be copied or modified, they have even never practiced it before.Or they will just someone to work for them.

The case above is usually done by unqualified teachers who were recruited as PNS by dirty ways. My question are: 1) does the government care about this? 2) Is there any evaluation for the exist PNS? 3) Is there any other way to prove that a PNS is qualified rather than having certificates or writing only?

There are a lot of problems that Indonesia government must handle that it is understandable if the government can't supervise all teachers all across Indonesia, the payment in certification can be wasting when this program is used as a making money machine thou. So my next question is for the teachers who are involved in such dirty things. Where is their heart when they receive 12 millions in certifications or other allowance while they didn't work for it?

It is quite in contrary from teachers basic characters that they are models and figure to be followed by their students. However, money has blocked their brain to become the real teachers as the should be.

Life is hard. Hope it won't be a reason to always justify any ways to make money. Moreover, being PNS through teacher positions are still pursued by many people out there. Hope, those who are recruited having good morality that will not use money as their goal in being teachers but serve students and government a right and good lesson.