Student Teachers’s Readiness to Face Society 5.0 Challenges: Are They Ready to Teach with Competencies Needed?

Abstract

Society 5.0 has a consequence on all aspects including the education aspect. Education is required to be able to adapt to any changes that exist, of course, in this case, the society 5.0 era has an impact on the readiness for the job of student teachers to prepare for the changes. This study aims to examine the readiness of student teachers in facing the challenges that will be faced with the implementation of Society 5.0 and the competencies needed in the future. This study uses a descriptive quantitative approach with a survey method. The sample from two teacher training and education colleges (n=305) was surveyed to explore the extent to which students felt prepared for the job with society's 5.0 challenges. Collecting data uses a questionnaire and data analysis using descriptive statistics. This study describes four competencies namely communication skills, leadership, curiosity, and comprehension reading skill. Overall, the results identified that student teachers are quite ready for leadership and comprehension reading skills and need to be developed for communication and curiosity skills among these student teachers. These four competencies become important to be researched because they must be owned by every student teacher and affect the important role of teacher training and college education institution in shaping their professional competencies.

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