UIN’s rector founded CTLD in 2000 to develop teaching professionalism among its lecturers. However, since the demand for training and workshops on active learning methods has increased, CTLD has expanded to include teaching and learning programs for senior and junior schools as well. The establishment of CTLD cannot be separated from the strong recommendation of professors of education at Canada’s McGill University, who trained UIN’s lecturers in 1999 to become facilitators of active learning methods.
Active learning methods introduced by McGill instructors have been relevant to the need for democratic teaching among educators. On the other hand, the climate of competition among schools and universities seems to be a common phenomenon in which educators should not only master the subject of the lessons, but should also be skilful teachers with varied teaching methods. In addition, such teaching professionalism has been a kind of requirement for Indonesian teachers, in order to implement the government’s educational policy of competency-based education with one of its main goals making Indonesian students smarter, more democratic citizens.
One educational hindrance among Indonesian teachers is their lack of teaching method competences; most of them are still practicing classical or traditional methods with teachers single actors more dominant during their teaching than their students. As a consequence, this one man show paradigm of teaching leads teachers to treat their students as mere objects of teaching. The result is students who are passive and uncontrolled, with a gap between the educators and their students.
Based on these educational barriers, in 2000 CTLD introduced
participative teaching whereby teachers student relations are more equal and flexible with teachers able to encourage their students to be active and to understand what they learn. Therefore, teachers are no longer just transmitters of dry nowledge but facilitators and partners with the students CTLD offers to train. CTLD’s program of teaching skills is designed to stimulate both teachers and students to actively engage during the teaching and learning in their classes. Such a student-oriented paradigm may go hand in hand with the ongoing demand for democratic education among the international community of educators today.
VISION
THE Best and Professional in Teaching Learning Development Programs
MISSION
TO Develop Teaching Professionalism and Methodological Skills among Educators in Islamic Education
AIMS
1. To develop active and participative teaching and learning among faculty at UIN Jakarta
2. To train active and participative teaching and learning methods among educators in Islamic universities and schools in general
3. To enhance teaching professionalism among educators in Islamic educational institutions
