INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MOSLEM SOCIETY ISSN 2622-5840, Volume 3, 2019, Pages 11-22 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24090/icms.2019.2392 Proceeding of 3 rd International Conference on Empowering Moslem Society in the 4.0 Industry Era Improving Writing Skill for Islamic Education Teacher Faizah Nur Atika State Institute on Islamic Studies Purwokerto, Indonesia faizna84@gmail.com Abstract: A teacher should be able to write as supporting element in learning activities implementation. 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. Many efforts have been made by government to encourage the spirit of the teacher in writing as like training, but it was not enough if they follow a training without directly applying it. Therefore, a habituation to write as early as possible is needed before someone becomes a teacher. This kind of habituation is performed by An Najah Islamic Boarding School for Higher Student Purwokerto. Students will be accustomed to writing as early as they can. This research can be categorized as field research while the strategy is cross sectional study case. The object are all of activity which belong to writing skill improvement there while the subjects are santri (student) and ustadz (teacher). The technic of collecting data uses observation, interview, and documentation and used Miles and Huberman data analysis methods. This study shows that there are two programs for improving writing skill of Islamic Education santri, namely main program and supported program. Keywords: improve, writing skill, teacher A. Introduction Teacher is an important component in an educational institution, because of that a teacher is required to have various competencies. The competencies are pedagogical competence, social competence, personal competence and professional competence. Nurfuadi (2012) said that based on Statutes of National Education System No. 20 of 2003, in article 10 described that teacher competence covers, (1) the pedagogic competence is the ability to manage the learning of students; (2) personal competence is the ability of a stable personality and noble, wise, and authoritative and become role models for the students; (3) social competence is the ability to communicate and interact effectively and efficiently with students, fellow teachers, parents or guardians of students, and (4) the ability to master professional competence is broad and deep learning acquired through professional education. Competence is a necessity that must be owned by a teacher to be able to carry out the task of their profession as a professional teacher. One of the form of competence and professionalism of a teacher is the master studies in the field of curriculum materials and material enrichment which support areas of study (Nurfuadi, 2012). It has same meaning that a teacher must master the