6.1 Purposes of Practicum

6.1 Purposes of Practicum

Teacher should be able to educate the students, not only teach them about the material (cognitive) but also able to educate students to have a good attitude (affective-psychomotor). Thus, it is necessary for the teachers (educators) to have quality standards of competence and professionalism which are assured. Therefore, it is necessary to become a professional teachers who can improve the progress of national education required a process of continuous development, targeted and effective. The process leading to this professional teacher needs to be supported by all the elements associated with the teacher. Then the professionalization of teachers (educators) is a must to improve the quality of education, especially if we look at the current objective conditions that are always growing in educational view. Thus, educators also should be able to improve their 4 competencies which also bring the important impact to develop the teaching and learning process. Those four competencies are:

a.       Pedagogical Competence

Pedagogical Competence deals with how the educator’s competence in managing the classroom as well as being able to plan the teaching process, able to teach and able to know the students’ characteristics and able to evaluate the learning process that will impact to the quality of teaching.

b.      Professional Competence

This competence deals with the teacher’s ability to perform professional duties by mastering the material also method that will be used in teaching and learning process

c.       Personal Competence

Personal competence is the ability to be able as a role model for the students that should be mature, stable, and wise also always doing self-improvement to get better.

d.      Social Competence

Social Competence is the teachers’ ability to interact with the social environment whether it is between teacher-students, teacher-teacher, and teacher-social.

Teacher is the important role in the teaching and learning process, because the teacher’s quality is also an important issue in education. Various continuing efforts has been implemented by the government, for example by doing professional development, seminars, discussions that essentially aimed to improve teacher’s quality. Teacher is the responsible elements in the organization of physical education and often carry out less comprehensive learning so that the implementation is not in accordance with what is expected. Therefore, making a lesson plan is a part of teacher's job, where teacher should be able to assess students' needs as learning subjects, formulate learning objectives and choose appropriate learning methods and strategies to achieve established goals. Therefore, one strategy that used to improve the professionalism and the quality as a teacher especially for the prospective teacher is by joining teaching practice (PPL) especially SEA-Teacher program (SEAMEO) that emphasizing in teaching practice.