Exploring Students’ Interest in Becoming a Teacher Through “Kampus Mengajar” Program

Abstract

Kampus Mengajar is one of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) or Independent Learning – Independent Campus program presented by the Ministry of Educational and Culture. This program gives a great chance for university students around Indonesia to participate and impact to the target school. The study was intended to explore the students’ perception of 'Kampus Mengajar' Program on student's interest in becoming a teacher. This research used qualitative design. In data retrieval, researchers are interviewing three students at faculty of teaching and educational sciences of UIA who joined Kampus Mengajar Program batch 3. Based on the results of in-depth interviews, it can be said that the experience of joint Kampus Mengajar Program has influenced college students to become teachers in the future.

Analysis of Students Satisfaction Index of Fkip Untan on Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (Mbkm)

“…This indicator gets a value of 4,614 or 92.28%. Teaching Campus activities can increase students' interest in becoming teachers (Fajaria & Nurhasanah, 2022), so that the need for jobs in accordance with the availability of graduates (Yulianto et al, 2022).…”

“…MBKM implementation is expected to give flexibility to educational implementers (higher education, lecturers and students) in carrying out the curriculum so that it can keep up with the times and information and communication technology (Krisnanik et al, 2021), and can produce graduates who are in accordance with the needs of the industry. The Teaching Campus Program (a part of MBKM) has proved that MBKM increase students' interest in becoming teachers (Fajaria & Nurhasanah, 2022), enhancement academic feature and life skills feature (Sampelolo & Kombong, 2022).…”