Defining teachers’ professionalism through good classroom practices

The jobs of professional teachers are not limited to teaching but also facilitating the learning process, managing classroom activities, and conducting effective assessments. This fact requires that the Department of Teacher Education design teaching-learning programs by which prospective teachers can enlarge their horizons about teacher professionalism. To meet the professional development needs of prospective teachers, the English Department of IAIN Ponorogo designs extracurricular programs beneficial in sharpening the sense of pedagogy. The programs are Holiday English Dormitory (HED) and Wiyata Bhakti (WB). The former program, HED, offers an alternative to develop prospective teachers' language skills by staying in a language course for two weeks and communicating in English all the time. This activity provides exposure to English in a more real situation. Having accomplished HED, the next program to join is WB. In this program, the prospective teachers stay at a school, usually a private school with a dormitory, for ten days and do some activities such as tutoring students, assisting in study club, and playing language games.