Argumentative Essay_The Controversy of Teacher Certification in Indonesia
By miftachudin arjuna - March 09, 2015
In some points, teacher certification in Indonesia is beneficial for
stake holders such teachers, education institutions, and the government,
but it is a kind of dilemma because the disadvantages are higher that
its benefits in practice. Since article no 19 year 2007 from ministry of
Indonesian education has been implementing a new standard of
certification for teachers, they assert that this assessment result a
significant achievement of their teaching performance. On the other
hand, some observations conducted to check the real significances in the
field show the controversy.
It is doubtful that government succeeds in making competition through this kind of intelligent game “certification”. Instead of improving the teachers’ personality, the teachers are blissful to submit a pile of portfolio from regional, national, or international seminars or institutions for the shake of points. In fact, the certificates have diverse value, thus the teachers need to run until reaching 850 point to get the title of certified teachers. Surprisingly, some friends of mine even asked me whether I had some certificates which are anonymous so they can use that. In addition, the others are willing to pay Rp 50.000,- for such a piece of paper. In result, the condition above shapes goal oriented culture within teachers do not respect the process of getting something but solely how to achieve the goal using any methods, no matter what they are – good or bad.
Money used as a reward is still a controversial phenomenon in any fields. This is what is happening now in Indonesian education. Clearly, on the article is stated that teachers will get profession allowance if they are certified. Nevertheless, in some cases the certified teachers do not have parallel relation to their teaching qualities like what had happened in East Java that the number of failed students slightly increased. In addition, the certified teachers are found still lazy, monotonous, not professional and indiscipline. The reality shows that some teachers are not studying continuously because what they find in the class is a daily routine and they have memorized everything consecutively for years. They may say that there is nothing new. When the government launched the certification program, teachers have external motivation to show their achievement through pile of portfolio. Apparently, external motivation temporarily affects their achievement.
The assessment to portfolio is merely based on examining of material and physical. It is injustice condition because 20 year experienced teachers can not be certified due to incomplete data. They are professional in practice but they do not have good management in keeping the certificates, published papers, teaching experience letters and so on. In addition, teachers who live in disaster area such as in Aceh complain that they can submit nothing because all they have been swept away by tsunami in 2004. In contrary, the fresh graduate teachers who diligently attend meeting, seminar, and other events have ample requirements to be certified. Astonishingly, they are marked as professional teachers due to material and physic examination.
To summarize, this kind of certification must be changed into new method. The method must be based not only on material and physical evaluation but also conscience. It means that the government must give consideration for certain real conditions that happens toward teacher personally. Eventually, the government must supervise the program periodically, thus the teachers will keep their teaching performance as the profession allowance is ongoing.
It is doubtful that government succeeds in making competition through this kind of intelligent game “certification”. Instead of improving the teachers’ personality, the teachers are blissful to submit a pile of portfolio from regional, national, or international seminars or institutions for the shake of points. In fact, the certificates have diverse value, thus the teachers need to run until reaching 850 point to get the title of certified teachers. Surprisingly, some friends of mine even asked me whether I had some certificates which are anonymous so they can use that. In addition, the others are willing to pay Rp 50.000,- for such a piece of paper. In result, the condition above shapes goal oriented culture within teachers do not respect the process of getting something but solely how to achieve the goal using any methods, no matter what they are – good or bad.
Money used as a reward is still a controversial phenomenon in any fields. This is what is happening now in Indonesian education. Clearly, on the article is stated that teachers will get profession allowance if they are certified. Nevertheless, in some cases the certified teachers do not have parallel relation to their teaching qualities like what had happened in East Java that the number of failed students slightly increased. In addition, the certified teachers are found still lazy, monotonous, not professional and indiscipline. The reality shows that some teachers are not studying continuously because what they find in the class is a daily routine and they have memorized everything consecutively for years. They may say that there is nothing new. When the government launched the certification program, teachers have external motivation to show their achievement through pile of portfolio. Apparently, external motivation temporarily affects their achievement.
The assessment to portfolio is merely based on examining of material and physical. It is injustice condition because 20 year experienced teachers can not be certified due to incomplete data. They are professional in practice but they do not have good management in keeping the certificates, published papers, teaching experience letters and so on. In addition, teachers who live in disaster area such as in Aceh complain that they can submit nothing because all they have been swept away by tsunami in 2004. In contrary, the fresh graduate teachers who diligently attend meeting, seminar, and other events have ample requirements to be certified. Astonishingly, they are marked as professional teachers due to material and physic examination.
To summarize, this kind of certification must be changed into new method. The method must be based not only on material and physical evaluation but also conscience. It means that the government must give consideration for certain real conditions that happens toward teacher personally. Eventually, the government must supervise the program periodically, thus the teachers will keep their teaching performance as the profession allowance is ongoing.
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Nama : RYNO SETTRISMAN ( 113-13-045 )
ReplyDeleteSubject : Writing III ( C )
The outline :
• General statement : Having intelligence is very important to carry on our life
• Thesis statement : Based on academic research of Paul Irwing , who is the senior lecturer from Manchester University, along with his friend Richard Lynn, who is the ex-professor of Psychology Department of University of Ulster reveals some evidences that Man is smarter than woman.
• Topic sentence 2nd paragraph : That research engaged 80.000 participants who was requested to go through IQ test. That reseach also invoked 20.000 students for more accurate advanced research.
• Topic sentence 3rd paragraph : Irwing explains that there is no difference between man’s IQ and woman’s IQ at the age of 0-14 years
• Topic sentence 4th paragraph : The academic team used IQ test to measure their general ability in spatial and verbal skill.
• Concluding paragraph : In conclusion. The man should be grateful to their almighty creator
MAN IS SMARTER THAN WOMAN
Having intelligence is very important to carry on our life. Most of people extremely want to be intelligent one. Man and woman compete each other to be the best one. Actually, we are quite confused when we want to find who the smarter is. Based on academic research of Paul Irwing , who is the senior lecturer from Manchester University, along with his friend Richard Lynn, who is the ex-professor of Psychology Department of University of Ulster reveals some evidences that Man is smarter than woman.
That research engaged 80.000 participants who was requested to go through IQ test. That reseach also invoked 20.000 students for more accurate advanced research.
Irwing explains that there is no difference between man’s IQ and woman’s IQ at the age of 0-14 years . However, in the next years , The man’s IQ will be higher 5 points than the woman’s IQ. That is not too big difference but Irwing says that it can have big implication
The academic team used IQ test to measure their general ability in spatial and verbal skill. In that research, They succesfully made a note that amount of men who had score IQ 125 were much more than women in the first level. They also found that IQ 155 was also dominated by the men.
In conclusion. The man should be grateful to their almighty creator. They should be more active than woman in doing everything. They should use their potential to go on direction to the golden future of this century.