UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KOMPETENSI DAN PROFESIONALISME GURU PADA ERA SERTIFIKASI

Abstract

Abstract : Compotence is a unified whole that describes the potential, knowledge, skills, and attitudes assessed in relation to a particular profession with regard to the part that can be
actualized and manifested in the form of action or performance to perform a particular profession. According to Law no. Law No. 14 of 2005 on Teachers and Lecturers Article 1 paragraph (10), competence is a set of knowledge, skills, and behaviors that must be owned, experienced and mastered by teachers or lecturers in performing professional duties. Professionalism is a skill possessed by a person in a particular field and has been able to contribute his profession (science) to a needy society. Professional teachers are teachers who are truly experts in the field and able to perform their duties well as well as having the competence and high commitment in carrying out its duties and responsibilities. Certification for Teachers and Lecturers is a mandate of our National Education System Act (article 42) requiring every educator to have minimum qualifications and certification in accordance with the level of teaching authority he possesses. In short, certification is needed to reinforce the competency standards that teachers and lecturers need to have in their respective fields of science. With the certification it does not make the teacher the most competent, knowing, and most truthful person. Teachers are required to always follow the dynamic development of science, technology, and information. As educators, teachers should have to learn for life (long life education). Therefore, the teacher must build and develop himself, so he is able to maintain the competence and professionalism it has.

Keywords : Competence, Professionalism, Certification