The Teacher

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Artikel online - For a country with the quality of teaching in schools is still low, unfavorably divorced college of primary and secondary education. At this age, the career of a teacher before teaching until now taught constantly in touch with the college.

Tersebutlah a professor of chemistry who was delighted to find out how his son taught chemistry at the school. So the professor then asked to see his daughter's chemistry teacher to admonish and want to "teach" how to teach chemistry. When met, the professor was surprised because it turns out that the former chemistry teacher students themselves. This incident reportedly cited "Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology" output of the National Research Council, 2001.

This story, first, remind professors and colleges that students there will tread the path of teachers. It must be realized, not semaua students in college will be researcher, engineer, archaeologist, pharmacists, lawyers, historians, managers, or politicians. Most human beings commit to trace the path of a teacher while he was studying in college. Thus, all the colleges, without exception, be responsible and play a role in caring for the teacher. Especially since today the institute to university and science education (Teachers' Training College) also no longer exists.

Second, university lecturers and very powerful role in inspiring students to become teachers. Moment of academic activities laden debate and argument brighten deep thought, a sort depicted in the film Dead Poets Society, illustrating the beauty and enjoyment of teaching. Intellectual experience of this kind often carve soul of the student with a passion themselves treading the path of the teacher.

However, it must be admitted that many teachers who choose a path based on more rational motivations, such as the economy. However, there is also a human being on the path of teachers for reasons that are considered emotional and romantic as the above.

Third, given the events above the lecturers to constantly improve teaching. Lecturers teaching style will be a reference, model, and displayed back repeatedly in school teaching. Therefore, especially the lecturer of the course in the first year need to pay careful attention not only to the concept of what that learned, but also on how membelajarkannya.

With the above facts, in addition to designing the recruitment policy of teachers, universities also need to think further study program for teachers. Especially since today all universities in the world are being challenged to make a breakthrough innovation further studies for teachers.

FURTHER STUDY
It is very wise no presumption that certain colleges do not have to care about pre-university education. It should be noted, meaningful teaching in schools will ensure fertile shoots scientist, engineer, historian, etc., in the future and certainly confirms the sustainability of science and civilization.

Top universities in research in the US, like Stanford, UCLA, Harvard, Rice, Illinois Urbana, and UC Berkeley, also manages advanced study program for teachers. Therefore, depressing if today there is still some mengendepankan dikatomi between college teacher and non-teacher. Indonesia took a lot of capable teacher, ta perhaps this need is met only by some universities.

Today is already available range of advanced courses for teachers offered by the college, including in Indonesia. There is emphasis on science and micro teaching. There is also emphasis on assessment issues at the macro level.

In the S-2 study program for teachers of mathematics at ITB, for example, a student teacher (students who are teachers) examines the concept of school mathematics, but using a mathematical point further. The student's teacher at school to explore various scientific ideas that may have previously considered trivial, the viewpoint is advanced.

Student teachers will appreciate the awesomeness and the genius of the idea that they are teaching class. Such an approach is most likely to be copied and applied to other disciplines, such as civics and history.

Similarly, the end of the programmed tasks or projects like this focus on specific scientific content analysis and micro. Students examine, among other things, how pupils as individuals learn certain specific understanding. There is also the further studies that highlight the skills of research issues at the macro level, such as curriculum, teaching methods specific, and so forth. Forms of final project in a course like this focus on education policy research. Here, student teachers learn become researchers.

There is also an innovation of advanced study that systematically weave understanding of concepts and skills taught. Each topic (school teaching materials) is taught twice, on two consecutive semesters. In the first semester, students learn about a topic as well as possible and act as a pupil. Students should feel how to learn to understand a concept as a pupil. Then the next semester, students will learn the same concepts again, but now they will learn as a teacher. They should examine how they reserved the learning that students successfully undergone a process of learning effective and meaningful learning as she had in the previous semester.

Innovation in further studies for teachers spawned a diversity of educational options for teachers. As stated in the report of the National Science Teachers Learning Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, further studies which is more suitable depends on the individual teacher. But, clearly, many innovations further studies for teachers is encouraged.