Focus Group Interview Theoretical Description
27 is the soul of teacher. It means, as teachers, it is important to improve the service
quality. The service quality includes the four competencies of teacher: pedagogy, personality, professional, and social. Becoming a professional teachers is not
merely only because succeeding the measurement stuff but also the self- understanding toward teacher profession and the soft skill to encounter the
difficulties. In the last part, the researcher employs some theories related to “self”. This
theory brings up the intrinsic encouragement such as self-concept James, 1910; Lecky, 1945, self-esteem Cast Burke, 2002; Gecas Schwalbe, 1983;
Tafarodi Swann, 2001, self-efficacy Bandura, 1989, self-motivation Cast Burke, 2002; Stipek, 1988, and self-awareness Pyszczynski Greenberg, 1987.
These “self” concepts influence the forming of teacher professional identity. What
comes from the inside matters a lot to the decision making. The theory of teacher professional identity, professional teacher, and “self”
will be used to answer the research question. The researcher will bracket the theory into some indicators. The indicators formed are to analyze the data.
Therefore, based on the theories proposed in this research, the researcher argues that in forming teacher professional identity, it is needed to comprise the
indicators of the theories. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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