Student Teacher Recruitment in Indonesia: An Initial Step to Promote Teacher Professionalism and Teaching Professionalization

摘要

Teacher professionalism should arise since the recruitment into initial teacher education (ITE) program, during teacher education process, and graduation to become a novice teacher. This consecutive process supports the promoting of teacher professionalism in the ITE phase; provides the sufficient individuals for teaching characteristics; and retains them until the graduation. This paper aims to construct a conceptual framework of student teacher recruitment as an initial step to promote teacher professionalism and teaching professionalization. The conceptual framework is derived from a literature review and policy document analysis, the research methods of this paper. The findings encompass the conception of the student teacher recruitment in Indonesian higher education institution for ITE; especially, for the traditional B.Ed. program and the new Pendidikan Profesi Guru (PPG), the Indonesian version of one-year-professional-ITE at postgraduate level. This is to anticipate the current policy which uplifted the minimum qualification for certified teacher into postgraduate level. The findings suggest an integrated program of PPG which automatically accepts the B.Ed. graduates or a modified five-year-Masters in Teaching which contains the B.Ed. and PPG courses. Thus, university only recruits the qualified secondary school graduates to enroll an integrated B.Ed. & PPG program.