Profession: The Definition Of Profesioanlism

A. The Definition of Profesioanlism

1. Professional teachers

Professional teachers in neighborhood educational environtment is vital, because professional teachers also determine success or fail in an education. Professional means a process of change in individual or group, or any combination there of toward specific professional abilities.

Etymologically, the profession is derived from the English term or latin profecus meaning acknowledge, acknowledgement, stating unable or experts in specific areas of work. While the terminology profession can be defined as jobs that require higher education for the culprit emphasis on mental work instead of manual work. (Danim, 2002 : 21)

Professional comes from the adjective wich means living and as

Professional teachers are educated and well trained, and have rich experience in their field is educated and trained not only formal education but also have to master the various strategies or techniques in teaching and learning activities and master the educational foundation.

Profession can be contrasted with the hobby. In our daily lives we witnessed their work seems to be a pleasure culprit. Profession is an activity carried out by someone to get a living. (Arikunto, 1980:238 )

In a professional work required techniques and procedures that rely on intellectual foundation or an institute studied. A professional worker may be distinguished by atechnicion in a strong philosophic thought to account for its work. A work by profession requires scientific techniques and procedures as well as having dedicated.

The level and type of profession

Phsycological requirements are spiritually healthy the intention was not impaired mental disorders or neurological desiase, which is not possible to run a good job, but it is also expected to have a talent and interest in teacher training.

c. Mental requirement, which have a good mental attitude towards the teaching profession, love and serve his dedication to the task, mentally Pancasila, and being democratic life in accordance with the basic formulation and educational purpose as stated in the basic education law.

d. Moral requirement, namely the nature of the immortal and noble character. Means any prospective teachers and educator is that they are able to do good, and behaving that can be used as a role model for people and sourrounding communities it is based on the classic slogan. (Kurikulum IKIP Surabaya, 1995 : 9)

e. Intellectual or academic requirements that the soecialized knowledge and skills acquired from teacher education institutions that prepare you for the formal duties as educators in schools. Clearly, the diploma wich gives the right and authority as a teacher to teach the class. In addition to the diploma they already had. Every teacher let strive the develop our selves, increasing knowledge and skills and knowledge to keep up to date with the demans of his profession as well as changes in