Pivot Feature to Identify the Strategic Issues of Elementary School Teacher Management and Distribution in Indonesia

摘要

This research aimed to identify the strategic issues, new technology, of elementary school teacher management and distribution in Indonesia. In fact, the conditions of regions (either regencies or cities) in Indonesia are varied, however, by comparing two different locations, this research tried to reveal the similar conditions in other regencies/cities in Indonesia. This research was conducted through a survey. The population was 583 elementary schools in Lumajang Regency with the total number of teachers of 6,393 teachers and 2,865 elementary schools in Lamongan Regency with the total number of teachers of 6,525 teachers. The samples were 581 (99.65%) elementary schools and 6,323 teachers (99.90%) in Lumajang Regency, and 631 (22.03%) elementary schools and 4,476 (68.69%) teachers in Lamongan Regency. The sampling was done through the use of purposive sampling. The data analysis was conducted by using Microsoft Excel via pivot feature. The steps taken were data verification and validation by the regional department of education. It is continued with the analysis of the primary data of education which resulted in the strategic issue of teacher management and distribution which include the components of teachers' availability, teachers' qualification, teachers' certification, school principals' qualification, the minimum number of meetings per week, and the number of teachers after retirements. The results of the research show that the strategic issues are divided into six categories, each of which supported by the analysis results on primary data of education.