Legal Understanding in Field of Educator Profession (Study of Civic Teacher as Participants on PLPG Rayon 124 UNM year 2017)

Abstract

Abstract. This research aims is to know legal level understanding of Civic teacher as participants on Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Profesi Guru (PLPG) Rayon 124 UNM year 2017. The type of this research was descriptive research. The number of sample in this research was 31 Civic teachers at first generation who came from South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi province that spread in 17 district. The results of the research showed that teacher level understanding about legislation rule in the field of educators' profession was not adequate if PLPG graduation criteria is used as assessments standard. It means most of civic teacher does not understand yet the legal substance which related to legislation in the field of professions educators, it realized that one of teacher professionalism development indicator is that teachers know and understand every laws / policies in the field of education particularly related to their job as a teacher, so that every personal teachers show their attitude and awareness to the legal.

The Difficulty of Civic Education Teacher to Understanding the Characteristics of Students as part of Pedagogical Competence

“…The longer a teacher teaches, the teacher will gain experience so that he can form a professional attitude. Teaching experience becomes important, based on the result of research about Legal Understanding in Field for teacher, which is explained that most of civic education teacher does not understand the legal substance related to legislation in the professional field of educators, it is realized that one of the indicators of teacher professional development is that teachers know and understand every laws/policy within the field of education, especially those relating to work as a teacher, so that each individual teacher showed their attitude and awareness of the laws [9].…”