IMPROVING WRITING SKILL FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION STUDENT OF IAIN PURWOKERTO: A CASE STUDY IN AN NAJAH ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL FOR HIGHER STUDENT PURWOKERTO

A teacher need to be able to write because as supporting element for implementing it in the learning activities which has been targeted. Moreover, teachers also need to do research to improve the professionalism as a teacher. But right now, the culture of writing scientific papers among teachers remains low. This is consistent with the statement of Sugijanto, Head of Books in National Education Ministry says that teachers who could write no more than 1%. The indicators are participants in the writing books contest at the Center of Books in 2009 only 818 participants, whereas the number of teachers in Indonesia amounted to approximately 2.7 million teachers. Many efforts have been made by government to encourage the spirit of the teacher in writing, as do the training of scientific writings, because the ability to write it needs to be given to the teacher. But, it was not enough. If they had done the training but do not directly apply, then training is something useless, especially when training because of forcing, so it’s need habituation for teachers to write. If the habituation of writing has done before becoming a teacher, the teacher candidates become accustomed to writing early on as performed by An Najah Islamic Boarding School for Higher Student Purwokerto. The issue that will be answered in this researche is how the committees of An Najah Islamic Boarding School for Higher Student Purwokerto improve writing skill of Islamic education student of IAIN Purwokerto who has being santri there? This research can be categorized as field research. And the strategy is cross sectional study case. And the characteristic of this research is descriptive. The object are all of activity which belong to writing skill improvement there while the subjects are santri (student) and ustadz (teacher) which will be developed by snowball sampling. The technic of collecting data uses observation, interview, and documentation and used Miles and Huberman data analysis methods. For checking the validity of data, it uses triangulation. This study shows that there are two program for improving writing skill of Islamic Education santri, namely main program and supported program. Ngaji Kepenulisan (Writing Study Religion) and Pondok Pena Activities belong to the main program. The supported programs are the caretaker’s model, motivation from the caretaker, in curriculum, newsletter, Pesma An Najah Press, wall magazine, An Najah Bookstore, and National Writing Competition in Pesantren Menulis Event