Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan kondisi awal pembelajaran dalam penerapan Kurikulum 2013 SMK dan kondisi pembelajaran setelah diterapkan Problem Based Learning (PBL).

The rapid flow of globalization should be absorbed and implemented in education, especially learning. The industry 4.0 era and millennial, 21st Century Education, and Sustainable Development Goals are intended for the purpose of learning and innovation skills. The researchers’ objective is to improve the quality of learning by applying the literacy movement, character values as a provision for life and career skills using the PBL method in the gasoline engine curriculum. Research method is classroom action research with the Elliot action model carried out in two cycles. A total of 34 students with ages ± 19-22 were used as research samples. The results obtained during the study showed an increase, namely: (a) the literacy movement was observed as successfully implemented with an increase of 19.1%; (b) inducing character values improves student behavior by 14.8%; and (c) strengthening competency in the gasoline motorbike curriculum by 11.3%. Problems in the engineering field that are packaged in PBL classes through student literacy and character movements are some forms of learning innovation that need to be applied to similar competencies.

Workforce in the 21st century has been marked by the acceleration of disruptive moves as the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Society 5.0. This era requires human resources with new competencies that may be far different from current competencies. To present vocational education that is able to facilitate future human resource to learn compentencies that meet the need of future changes, vocational teachers should master new competencies comprehensively. This study aims to formulate the core vocational teacher competencies, hard skills and soft skills, which are in line with the various demands of the future. This qualitative research involved active vocational teachers and vocational education experts in several Focus Group Discussions and questionnaire completion. Research questions are focused on reflection of current teacher competencies and perceptions of teacher competencies in the future. The results lead to a conclusion that for future teachers, the core competencies are the pedagogic, content, and ICT competencies. These competences are relevant to hard skills aspects categorised as curriculum and content. In the aspect of soft skills, category living in the world is dominant. The three aspects considered very important for future vocational teachers are able to be exemplary, honest, and discipline. As a consequence, this research suggests to teacher educational institutes that produce vocational teachers to develop the teacher education curricula that integrates these key competencies in their vocational education teacher standards.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan keaktifan pembelajaran dan hasil belajar siswa pada kompetensi dasar sistem pengapian konvensional dalam mengimplementasikan metode problem based learning. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas yang dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus, masing-masing siklus terdiri dari empat tahapan: perencanaan, pelaksanaan, pengamatan, dan refleksi. Data dianalisa secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagai berikut: (1) keaktifan siswa meningkat sebesar 11,20%; (2) keaktifan siswa kategori sangat tinggi sebanyak 36 siswa dan kategori tinggi sebanyak 3 siswa; (3) hasil belajar siswa aspek kognitif, psikomotor, dan afektif mengalami peningkatan masing-masing sebesar 5,32%, 5,03%, dan 2,05%; dan (4) hasil belajar siswa aspek kognitif, psikomotor dan afektif yang mencapai kompetensi minimal masingmasing sebanyak 36 siswa (92,31%), 36 siswa (92,31%), dan 38 siswa (97,40%) dari 39 jumlah siswa melalui penerapan problem-based learning.

Changes in the flow of globalization are influenced by the presence of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, including the role of digital technology (DT) in the education sector, namely cyber technology-based learning. The main challenge for vocational teachers is the mastery of skills in learning using DT. The acceptance of DT is categorized into five clusters, namely awareness, literacy, capability, creativity, and criticism adapted from Pavlova's. The study was conducted to measure the level of ability of productive class vocational teachers. The study approach used quantitative with descriptive statistical analysis. A total of 50 productive classroom teachers in Yogyakarta were involved in filling out a questionnaire that had been tested and validated by content, experts, and calculation of product-moment correlation. The results of the study show ( 1) technological awareness 83.08%; (2) technological literacy 66.32%; (3) technological capability of 39.28%; (4) technological creativity of 21.92%; and (5) technological criticism at 20.84%. The use of DT is clearly in the low category and shows the capacity of vocational teachers needs to be improved. Training programs, self-development, and motivation are important factors in improving digital technology skills.