8. English Teacher’s Performance at the Vocational School
Teacher’s performance becomes interesting to discuss since it is related to their competences, professionalism, lifelong learning issue and teacher self-actualization. It
is also applied for English teacher for vocational school level. By this section, the writer will describe the role of teachers, their standards as teachers, and their
awareness generally which determine their performance as English teachers of vocational school. According to Mulyasa
2013: 88 performance refers to someone’s performance as the accumulation of knowledge, skills, value and attitude which is
presented in her working appearance, attitude and achievement. Performance is not only about individual
’s knowledge. Knowledge works together with skills, value and attitude to build up individual
’s performance.
a. Teacher Roles
As the efforts to improve te achers’ performance, teachers must know their
duties. Teachers should maximize their roles which facilitate learning teaching activity. Since teacher does teaching, her roles must be related to learning activity.
According to Brown 1994:8 “teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling
the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning”. Teaching does not only deal with transferring knowledge, but teaching also comes with big responsibility. In the
end of learning activity, it is expected that learners are guided and facilitated. It is also demanded that teacher is competent enough to teach and manage learning
condition as comfortable as it should be. In addition, Riddel 2003:13-17 states that
there are some requirements which must be acquired as a good teacher as well as an English teacher. Teacher must know their subject. They should master English so
they can transfer their knowledge well. Before they teach, they must be sure that they are really ready to run a class. They also must use appropriate teaching methodology
to give an interesting lesson. Teachers should be creative enough to run teaching activity. One thing that must not be forgotten that teacher must find out about their
students, know them and respond to them. Teachers must be able to recognize their student, included their name, face, interest, and attitude. It is not right if a teacher
only pay attention to a particular student. Teachers also must be passionate and patient when they teach so they can help students make progress. Teachers need to
guide each student to achieve learning goals. Every teacher needs to understand their roles, so teaching activity will run
effectively. When teachers realize their roles, it is expected that they can place themselves in an appropriate position. Thus, learning activity can run effectively. As
stated by Brown 2001: 167, there are five roles of an interactive teacher which are as a controller, director, manager, facilitator and resource. In addition, Jacobsen,
Eggen, Kauchak 2009: 9-14 describe that teachers need to encourage development and achievement, constructivism in the class and motivate students.
b. Teacher Standards
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