How Professional Learning Community Based Academic Supervision Model Improves Teachers’ Performance

This paper outlines how academic supervision based on professional learning community improves teachers’ performance. Performance issues affect teachers’ academic quality and academic supervision is one way to resolve those issues. Thus, academic supervision is expected to improve teachers’ quality. In its implementation, academic supervision should be based on Professional Learning Community (PLC). In PLC-based effort, the management of various school conditions is aimed towards building a dialogue between educators and education staff to learn lessons from daily education practices. Therefore, an academic supervision model is needed to facilitate a PLC-based implementation in order to improve teachers’ performance quality. This study employs qualitative descriptive and R&D approaches. The research subject is the PLC-based academic supervision model implemented to improve teachers’ performance in Pangandaran Regency, Indonesia. Keywords—academic supervision; PLC; teachers’ performance