The Professionalism and Work Ethic Improvement through Teacher Working Group

Abstract

This study aims to describe the improvement of the quality of human resources in education through TWG (Teacher Working Group), especially in the field of teachers’ pedagogic competencies and work ethic. It is done to produce qualified educators to build smart, comprehensive, and highly competitive Indonesian human beings. It is mixed methods research using a sequential exploratory design. The study used a qualitative approach (interview) in the first stage and a quantitative method (survey) in the second stage. The respondents of this study were elementary school teachers, and 84 members of Teacher Working Group (TWG) Gugus Wiyata Jaya UPK Jatilawang, Banyumas Regency, Central Java. The results show that the pedagogic competence improvement of teachers is considered good with the percentage of 76.93% and the percentage of the development of teacher work ethic is 82.92%. Keywords—professionalism, pedagogy, work ethic, Teacher Working Group (TWG)