Outstanding Teachers' Competition: Between Strategies and Challenges

摘要

The research is intended to find out the strategies of how outstanding teachers participated in a district, regencies/mayoralties, provincial and national excellent teacher's competition. The study uses multi sites with four respondents consisting of National level outstanding teachers and headmasters from 05 Elementary School Sukasari Tangerang, representing Banten Province and of national level excellent teachers and headmaster from 03 state Elementary School Menteng Jakarta representing Jakarta Province 2018. Data collection techniques were carried out through interviews, observations, and documentation. The result shows that outstanding teachers intrinsically have professional, pedagogic, social, and personality competencies. They also have the fighting spirit to compete at the outstanding teacher's competition as an initial foundation. While the external motivation comes from the headmasters, school supervisors, educational authorities that provide knowledge in meeting the needed criteria and administration requirements. The research also confirms that mutual synergy among related parties and educational stakeholders. Among them are schools, teachers working group, educational authorities, universities, educational quality assurance agency, and Commission X of the Republic of Indonesia Parliament to produce the outstanding teachers in Indonesia.