The Legal Protection of Teacher Professionalism

Abstract

Teachers are professional educators with the primary task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluating early childhood education on formal education, primary education, and secondary education. As the professionals in the field of education, teachers have a great task and responsibility in achieving the goals of national education. In order to uphold discipline and maintain school as well as orders in teaching and learning processes, teachers have the right to sanction their students who violate religious norms, morality norms, decency norms, written and unwritten rules set by teachers, educational unit level regulations and regulations legislation under the authority. The Act No.14 Year 2005 on Teachers and Lecturers as well as Government Regulation No.74 Year 2008 on Teachers firmly mention that teachers who have the certificate of educators are entitled to basic salary, allowances attached to salary, additional income professional allowance, functional allowance, special allowances, and additional benefits related to their duties as teachers who are set by the principle of the award on the basis of achievement and legal standards in carrying out their profession. Objective conditions that occur are teachers are exposed to violence, threats, discriminatory treatment, intimidation, and unfair treatment by the students, students' parents, society, bureaucracy, or other parties.

Teaching Profession Law According to the Perspective of Union Representative Teachers

“…should be taken into consideration with the teacher employment model and provisions that will protect teachers against physical and verbal violence. In this context, it is seen that the results of the research overlap with the studies of TEDMEM (2018), Voisin and Dumay (2020), Matnuh's (2018) and the statements of the Educators Union Union (2022). The fact that the subjects are not in professional law is considered an important deficiency, and it is thought that the inclusion of these important issues related to the profession in the Law will strengthen the Law and the teaching profession.…”

“…In the Teaching Profession Law, it is seen that the 6th article, which regulates the teaching career steps in general, comes to the fore and many other important issues are not mentioned. However, when the international literature on the subject is examined, the legal texts related to the teaching profession in many countries are related to the selection, training, salaries, promotions and assignments of teachers, career advancement, professional development, duties and responsibilities, selection of managers and supervisors, additional payments, social rights, retirement, teacher It is understood that it covers many issues such as autonomy, reward, discipline and professional ethics (Voisin & Dumay, 2020;Matnuh, 2018). In addition, when the law on Judges and Prosecutors No.…”

“…Ancak Öğretmenlik Meslek Kanunu'nda genel olarak öğretmenlik kariyer basamaklarını düzenleyen 6. maddenin ön plana çıktığı, diğer birçok önemli konuya değinilmediği görülmektedir. Konu ile ilgili uluslararası literatür incelendiğinde Voisin ve Dumay (2020);Matnuh (2018), birçok ülkedeki öğretmenlik mesleği ile ilgili yasal metinlerin öğretmenlerin seçimi, yetiştirilmeleri, maaşları, terfi ve tayinleri, meslekte ilerlemeleri, mesleki gelişimleri, görev ve sorumlulukları, yönetici ve denetçilerin seçimi, ek ödemeleri, sosyal hakları, emeklilikleri, öğretmen özerkliği, ödül, disiplin ve meslek etiği gibi pek çok konuyu kapsadığı anlaşılmaktadır. Ayrıca Türkiye'de 2802 sayılı Hâkimler ve Savcılar Kanunu ile 926 sayılı Türk Silâhlı Kuvvetleri Personel Kanunu incelendiğinde söz konusu kanunların meslek mensuplarının seçilip yetiştirilmesi ve işe alınmasından başlayarak emekliliğine kadar meslek ile ilgili hemen her konuyu ele aldığı görülmektedir.…”

Attitude in mediating the relationship between emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, emotional sensitivity, and teacher performance in Indonesian schools

“…Therefore, the failure of education is caused by the teacher having to be able to fully understand the goals of education, so that the teacher must be able to direct students to educational goals. The teacher's strategic role is the path to the educational goals that have been mandated in the National Education System Law Number 5 of 2003 that the teacher is a professional position so that in each process a performance evaluation will be carried out while carrying out his duties to realize national education goals (Matnuh, 2018;Ramdhan, 2022;Silalahi & Nazmia, 2023).…”