5. Teacher Competency Standard
According to Broke and Stone in Mulyasa 2007: 25 teacher competency is a qualitative description of teachers‟ meaningful behavior. While Mulyasa
2007: 26 says that competency refers to the ability in doing something which is achieved through education. Teacher competency indicates a rational performance
and behavior to fulfill certain specification in the realization of educational duties. From the definitions above, it can be concluded that teacher competency is
a description of teachers‟ ability which includes teachers‟ knowledge, skill and behavior which should have been possessed in order to do their profession
professionally. The competency of teachers can be classified into four areas of
competency: pedagogical, personal, social, and professional the act of the Republic of Indonesia Number 14, Year 2005 On Teacher and Lecturer: chapter
10. These competencies are the competency standard which has to be possessed by teachers.
The pedagogical competency is a teacher‟s ability to manage students‟ learning. It includes the lesson planning, learning evaluation, and the development
of the students to actualize their potential ability. The personal competency includes demonstrating certain characteristics, such as faith and devoutness,
stability, maturity, sensibility, etc. The social competency is teachers‟ ability to be
part of the community such as communicating and socializing effectively with students, fellow teachers, teaching staff, and students‟ parents. The professional
competency is teachers‟ ability to master science, engineering, andor art in other words, content or subject knowledge.
By having competencies mentioned above, it is hoped that teachers can run their profession as professional educators, or in other words they can run their
duty as the learning agents.
6. Teacher Professionalism Professionalism is one of the competencies which a teacher should have.
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