Graduated students of the vocational school must fulfil some standards that are written in the Kerangka Kualifikasi Nasional Indonesia KKNI which also known as
Indonesian National Qualification Framework INQF. The INQF is a framework that places, equalizes, regulates education, work training and work experience to give an
admission of working competence which is appropriate with working structure in various sectors. The INQF divides qualification level into nine levels in which level 1
is the lowest and level 9 as the highest level. The INQF categorizes nine qualification levels into three certain functions; operator, technician and specialist level.
As described on the Indonesian National Qualification Framework INQF, graduates of the vocational school are involved in the level of operator. As operator,
every graduate must be able to do a particular duty using a tool, information, usual working procedures. They also are demanded to be able to show their measured
performance under their superior. They must own knowledge of basic operational and factual knowledge on a particular working area, so they can choose an appropriate
problem solving for usual occurred problem. They are also demanded to be responsible for their own work and can be responsible in guiding the others.
7. The English Teacher of the Vocational School
Teacher is a profession which has big responsibility. As stated by Mc Nergney and Herbert, 1995:3, teachers refer to models for children and adults as they teach
and as they live their lives both inside and outside schools. It can be said that teachers not only people who are responsible in transferring knowledge continually by guiding
and facilitating but also manage learning environment, so every learner is able to study. Besides, they are responsible to form learners’ attitude. It is supported by
Borich 1996: 2 who states that a good teacher was a good person —a role model
who met the community ideal for a good citizen, good parent, and good employee. They are demanded to be lived as well as possible in their private life. Teachers must
be people that fulfil society expectation of a good citizen, good parent, and good employee. As model, their life both inside and outside classroom are watched and
copied by society. Teachers are models of ideal people who are also responsible to transferring
knowledge, skill and attitude. It also applied in vocational school which is responsible to prepare ready-to-work graduates Kuswara: 2013. As a vocational school teacher,
they are responsible to equip every student with a particular knowledge and skill based on student’s expertise. It is also in line with Ebert II Culyer III 2011: 7 who
state teachers represent the bridge what the world is and what the world will become. Thus, every student is confident to compete after graduating. By transferring, guiding
and facilitating knowledge, skill and attitude, teachers prepare students to be confident to face unexpected situation in the future. By those explanation above we
can conclude that English teacher of vocational school is someone who fully has knowledge and skill specialization of English who is responsible in transferring the
ability to the vocational school learners. Teachers are also models in every aspect of their life for their students and people around.
8. English Teacher’s Performance at the Vocational School
