The use of Smart Phones as Self Assessment for Teaching Skills

Abstract

This research aimed to developof effective communication based teaching skills and to know significant influence on the use of smartphones as a self-assessment for teaching skills. This research is expected to facilitate early childhood teachers to assess their teaching ability. Smartphones can be used to document teaching skills while doing microteaching.This research is conducted on the students of PG PAUD study program Faculty of Education UniversitasNegeri Jakarta, which is following the course of Foundation of Curriculum and Curriculum: teaching practice, with the basic subject of teaching skill, theoretically and practically.Data were collected through the utilization of observation and document analysis and interview.The use of smartphones as self-assessment is appropriate to be used as one of the development of ECE teacher teaching skills model. This research can be concluded that there is a significant influence on the use of smartphones as a self-assessment for teaching skills. Mayor student can directly and analyzed about their teaching skills by looking video in their smartphone. The result of this research that the use of smartphones is very efficient and practical, because almost all students have the gadget.