Introduction: The
mission of the New Teacher
The development community needs for qualified
human resources are slowly but surely increasing from year to year. This is
in line with the development of the world demands of work not only requires
human resources oriented to the needs of industry. HR is
needed now is human resources that have superior competence, especially in
terms of thinking ability. Thus HR needs right now is human resources oriented to
the mind works.
In line with these needs pergerseran,
restructuring of education should be conducted.Education is not directed only
in the printing industry labor for labor but also optimize the ability to think
in carrying out his job. This means that education should be directed at efforts
to create a situation so that students can learn and have the ability to think
high phases. In order to achieve the above functions, the current
educational efforts should emphasize the establishment of competence to
students who at once means that must also be accompanied by radical changes in
teaching culture at this time.
The above conditions indicate that the teachers in
carrying out the mission of creating a graduate education changed only for the
industrial world into graduates who are ready to face a job that promotes
higher-order thinking skills. This means that teachers are required to be able to
prepare all students to have the thinking skills that include the ability to
find problems, discover, integrate, and synthesize information, create new
solutions, and develop skills of students in independent study and work in
groups. Thus, teachers must actually be able to find ways to
encourage and develop the fulfillment of all the needs of students based on
their potential. Without this effort will be difficult to create
graduates who are armed with high-level thinking skills.
To be able to run his new mission, the teacher
must truly understand the cognition and a variety of different ways of learning. Teachers
must also understand the development of students and pedagogical concepts as
they master the learning material and the use of alternative assessments to
measure student learning outcomes. Thus the teacher should be able to place the various
substances different experiences of learning, language and cultural
differences, learning styles, talents, and intelligence as a basis for
implementing various teaching strategies chosen.
Based on the above conditions, the learning must
be implemented on the basis of what students know and can do as well as how
students think and learn and to align learning with the required performance in
line with the needs of individual students. Given
this reality, it is clear teachers should really have superior characteristics
so that he will be able to implement its new mission in the educational
process. The creation of this pre-eminent teacher characteristics
must be done either at the time of teachers and teacher training to take the
education process at the time he was carrying out his job as educators.
Build Quality Teacher Education Program
The need for qualified teachers of the higher
current must be positively addressed by the management of teacher education. This
positive response should be indicated by constantly improving the quality of
educational programs it offers. Improvement of education quality in higher education
will clearly bring a positive impact on the creation of qualified teachers
later in life.
To be able to create a quality teacher education,
based on several studies of Darling-Hammond. and
Bransford (Ed.) (2005: 394) states that at least there are three important
elements in the design of teacher education programs should be improved (made
different from current conditions). These three elements are as follows.
The content of teacher education, with regard to
the material that must be given to the students, how to give it, how to combine
various materials so that meaningful, as well as how the expansion so that
students have a cognitive map that will help them see the relationship between
teacher knowledge domains to its use in a practical way in field to
encourage students to learn.
Learning process, with regard to the preparation
of curricula in line with the readiness of students and fundamental to the
practical learning materials and processes that can lead to student
understanding through active creativity in the classroom.
Learning context, with regard to the creation of
contextual learning process in order to develop practical skills of students. Learning
context should be applied in both domains as well as teaching materials through
professional learning communities (schools).
Sekait with the opinion above, Lang and Evans
(2006: 3) more clearly states that the creation of quality educational programs
can be based on the essentials of teacher education programs as follows.
Keberartian theory with practical experience.
Cooperation between universities and other
education communities.
Theory and practical in generic skills and reflection
and discussion about the effectiveness of these skills.
Giving emphasis on the process students learn how
to enhance creativity and critical thinking skills.
Ability to organize learning.
Application of constructivist approach to
learning.
The application of alternative assessment and the
theory of motivation.
Building a research-based professionalism.
Under both views, the quality education programs
in teacher education programs dasarnnya are constantly considering what
questions to learn what teachers and teachers can do. What
questions should be studied teacher education programs will encourage teachers
always teach the contextual material to the students. Contextual
material is of course not only presented but presented in a practical theory
that the prospective teachers are able to get two at once experience the
concepts and practical.In other words, it can be said teacher education
programs should be able to educate prospective teachers in learning the basic
assumptions about the practical concept in practice.
The second question about what teachers can do to
encourage the implementation of teacher education programs lead to the
excavation of the potential and needs of the students adapted to real
conditions the performance of teachers in the field. Thus,
teacher education programs will continue to focus on the creation of hard
skills and soft skills that teachers should possess. This
means that teacher education programs should be able to provide professional
skills to graduates while creating graduates who have higher thinking skills
that will be very useful to develop professionalism when they have to be a
teacher someday. Therefore, the implementation of the education process
in teacher education programs should be directed at efforts to introduce and
play the students as a teacher while he took his studies.
Quality teacher education programs is not the
teacher education program that provides knowledge of various models and
learning strategies to students but are able to apply various models and
strategies to students so that students acquire theoretical concepts and
application images at once. Through actual experience, the complaints of teachers'
ignorance of the various models and learning strategies as well as the
inability of teachers to implement various models and strategies will be able
ditepiskan. In addition, by applying various models and strategies
directly to students, students will increase creativity and prospective
teachers will understand that the teacher is basically an attempt to always be
a professional learner.
Professional development of teacher education
which can also be formed through improved research-based learning process. This
means that from the beginning the students should have been invited to conduct
a simple research on each course.Through this kind of learning style,
prospective teachers are expected to be able to find an actual teacher esesi
simultaneously build their competence to carry out skilled future research when
they become teachers. In addition, research-based learning can also be
interpreted to mean that the learning process is conducted in universities is
always based on the latest research results in line with the scientific vision
and market signals so that graduates will have a number of skills that is
really needed in the field.
In the end, the creation of a quality educational
program will rely heavily on the quality awareness of the managers. Sekait
with this, the managers of institutions of higher education teacher training is
based on the educational process should run clear quality assurance. The
teacher education program managers are required to afford providing excellent
service to students so that the entire program is performing students to be
able to deliver quality human resources. In
addition, the impact of this will bother the quality of leads also to the
public trust in the teacher education institutions so that keberlangsung
teacher education programs will be assured in the future.
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