Becoming Vocational Teachers for 21st Century in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/icovet-18.2019.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vocational teachers, teacher competency, vocational education, vocational educational foundations

Abstract

Various efforts have been made by the government in improving the quality of vocational education in Indonesia. However, some research has been conducted by overseas institutions shows that the quality of teachers and graduates of vocational education still low performance. In order to address this issue, researchers used literature review to provide a solution regarding what is needed to be understood for becoming actual vocational education teachers in the 21st century. The aim of this study is teachers in vocational education must have competencies to produce competitive and competent graduates of vocational education in Indonesia with the needs of the labor market in the global market. In Indonesia, the study recommends that to become a professional vocational teacher of the 21st century, they must understand the foundations of vocational teacher’s education, the competences of vocational teachers of the 21st century, the processes of vocational teacher education, and update knowledge and skills for competencies of vocational teachers according to industrial needs.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Becoming Vocational Teachers for 21st Century in Indonesia
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