Profile of Prospective Teacher in the Special Capital Region of Jakarta

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out and obtain empirical data about the profile of teacher’s candidates regarding gender, teaching experience, teaching attitudes, social competencies, personality competencies, and teaching interests. The method used in this study is the descriptive method with a sample of as many as 314 students from 15 higher education providers of education programs in the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. The sampling technique used was disproportionate random sampling, then the data were analyzed using the assisted Rasch Model Winstep version 3.73. The result of this study showed that 1) most women have low teaching interest (43.0%), 2) most prospective teachers have teaching experience around 0-5 months (35%), 3) most prospective students have low teaching attitudes (57%), 4) the social competencies possessed by prospective teachers are low (53%), 5) personality competencies possessed by prospective teachers are low (53%), and 6) teaching interest possessed by prospective teachers is low (55%). It showed that when someone wants to be a teacher it will impact three characteristics, which are teaching attitude, social competence, and personality competence. Consequently, all of the variable (teaching attitude, social competence, and personality competence) which are measured in this research are low, as the effect of low teaching interest. Keywords—prospective teacher; teaching experience; teaching attitudes; social competencies; personality competencies; teaching interests