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Teacher In Education In Indonesia

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INTRODUCTION
In this global era, professions are demanded to have better qualifications. Those qualifications do not just show the quality of the profession itself but also identify the future capability to achieve goals both for personal / institutional and social purposes. The qualification of professions are needed in almost all areas / occupations like in medical profession, financial job, social development and also education. Likewise in Indonesia, one of those professions stated earlier, i.e. education, is one of Indonesian Govenment’s focuses to develop. Based on The 1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia, education is one of the concerns for Indonesia to achieve. Indonesia longs for developing educational area in order to educate …show more content…

Teacher as a part of education should be seen as an important ‘dynamo’ which can generate the educational process. They are not just a complementary part in education but they are the key point that determine whether or not the education goal suceed. Furthermore, the first chapter of The Law of Republic of Indonesia No. 14 Year 2005 on Teacher and Lecturer stated that teacher is a professional educator who educate, teach, guide, train, assess and evaluate learners in early, primary and secondary education and lecturer is a professional educator and scientist who transform, develop and publish science and technology through education, research and community service. By knowing that, teacher can be said as the important key to develop national education. Pujiyana (2012) agreed by giving a simple strong statement ‘No Teacher No Education’. Accordingly, it is known that the term teacher can be devided into two bigger categories. Teachers who teach elementary up to secondary school is well known by teacher and those who teach tertiary school or college is well known by lecturer. Yet, this journal will use teacher as a general term refering to those who educate, teach, train, lecture and research in educational …show more content…

The qualifications are devided into two parts. First, professional teachers should have personality traits, attitude and beliefs. Personality traits are related to the role of teacher that can be nurtured and improved through prior education and continuous training. Becoming professional, teachers should know what to do as a teacher, not just a common teacher but as a good teacher based on the duty in elementary, secondary and/or higher education. Those includes teacher attitudes and beliefs in educational area. These points suggest teachers to have a well prepared action from teaching, administration management to institutional development. Their professional growth is also determined by their attitudes like flexibility, commitment to the responsibility given and also the curiosity and inquiry level to what they do not know (critical and

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