MENINGKATKAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA MELALUI PENINGKATAN KUALITAS PERSONAL, PROFESIONAL, DAN STRATEGI REKRUTMEN GURU

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to explain the importance of teacher’s role in improving the quality of education in Indonesia particularly in facing the era of industry revolution 4.0. It is undeniable that the quality of teachers in Indonesia is really low. It can be seen through the fact that the output of Indonesian education, based on the data from Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM), is in the 10^th rank out of 14 developing countries in the world, while the quality of teacher is in the 14^th rank of of 14 developing countries in the world. There are 4 factors that contribute to the low quality of teachers: teachers’ inaccurate perspective on their profession, qualification of teachers who are not bachelors, low professional development and research, and ineffective teacher recruitment method. The research method used in this paper is literature research with showing arguments from literature reviews and authors’ ideas. Research shows that a good quality of Indonesian education can be achieved through three things: first is through continuously increasing teacher’s understanding of the duty and calling in the education world through professional development programs and school mentoring. The second way is through supervision and correct application of UU No 14 tahun 2005 about teacher and lecturer. Government has to collaborate with private parties and universities to from a research forum to improve the quality of teaching profession. The third way is to better the ineffective teacher recruitment strategy, the government and school leadership have to apply the accuracy principle in recruitment, which is the accuracy of individual and organization, between teacher and school, between teacher and student, and as well the accuracy between teacher qualification and teaching context.