Preparing TVET Teacher Competence through Industry Practice Process

摘要

Entering the year 2016 all ASEAN's countries have to be ready to face the MEA era, namely era for competition for various sectors, certainly through healthy competition, and fair. Indonesia constitutes one of ASEAN's countries and with the number of 250 million populations should be ready to deal with various competitions. Currently, trending issues developing in Indonesia are related to low skills of workforces and worrying that they will be difficult to compete with other workforces around ASEAN's countries. Related to the increase the skills for human resources, vocational teachers' role constitutes crucial aspects that should be paid attention by government. This research, attempted to provide solutions to enhance competence the vocational teachers' candidates through appropriate process when they are still at university. The research was conducted in Department of Electrical Engineering Education, Faculty of Vocational and Technology Education, Indonesia University of Education and in some industries in Bandung Indonesia, where students performed industrial internship (industrial work practice). This research used descriptive research, and the aim of the research is to produce vocational teachers that possess good knowledge and skills according to their study field. Associated with the industry internship process to enhance TVET teacher students, university (the world of education) should build good cooperation to the world of industry through three stipulations that should be met, namely: memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the world of education and the world of industry; university possesses study program related to the world of industry; and industry possesses enough facilities and equipment for conducting industrial internship.