Teacher Professional Development Through Writing Scientific Papers

Abstract

Professional teacher has four competencies, namely (a) pedagogical competence, (b) cognitive competence, (c) personality competence, and (d) social competence. Among the four competencies of the professional teacher, our most emphasis is competence in learning management. That is, a professional teacher is required to be able to compile learning program, choose and use media and appropriate learning strategies. Professional teacher is required to be able to communicate that can motivate their learner. On the other hand, the teacher must also have extensive knowledge in his field, be wise, and be able to socialize well. The teacher profession is a special field of work that requires professional principles. Professional teacher is teacher who has the competencies required to carry out education and learning assignment. In relation with that, making scientific paper is one form of activity that can be used to develop teacher professionalism. It should be emphasized that the activity of developing the greatest professionalism of teacher is compiling scientific paper. Compiling scientific paper for teacher is a basic requirement to develop his profession. The reason is that teacher is considered as (a) educated people, (b) implementer of renewal in the world of education, (c) motivating student and partner, and (d) model for student in writing scientific paper, (e) researcher in learning, and (f) author of scientific paper.