Competencies and Skills Teachers Need to Have in the Modern Era

Teacher competency is an important aspect of whether a teacher deserves to be called qualified or not. It is felt that teachers who have good teacher competence will be able to carry out their duties and obligations well for their students.

This capability itself is regulated in law. In Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 14 of 2005 article 8, there are four aspects that fall into teacher competency.

These four competencies are personality competence, pedagogical competence, social competence and professional competence.

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4 Competencies that teachers must have

Personality Competencies

Pedagogical Competence

Social Competence

Professional competence

6 Skills needed by modern teachers

Adaptive

Self-confident

Communicative

Work in a team

keep learning

Imaginative

4 Competencies that teachers must have

Personal, pedagogical, social and professional competencies are the four main things that are important for a teacher to have. However, what does each of these competencies mean? We discuss it together below.

1.      Personality Competencies

Personality competency is an important competency for educators or teachers to have. This personality is based on several aspects. Among others are:

1. Stable personality – this personality means that a teacher needs to have a stable character, not easily change emotionally, and always be consistent in acting according to applicable norms.
2. Mature personality – this personality means that a teacher must have more mature thoughts than his students. So that they can help guide their students to become better.
3. Wise personality – wise personality forces teachers to be open-minded in every action. Teachers need to be wise when teaching their students.
4. An authoritative personality – an authoritative personality means that a teacher will be respected by his students. Authoritative teacher behavior will have a positive influence on students.
5. Noble moral personality – Teachers also need to have noble morals or qualities. So he can be an example for his students.

2.      Pedagogical Competence

Teachers also need to master pedagogical competencies. Because with this, teachers can know how to provide knowledge or knowledge well to their students.

There are several aspects related to pedagogical competence. Among these are understanding students, designing and planning learning, implementing learning, developing students, and evaluating the learning process.

3.      Social Competence

Social competence covers the life and social abilities of a teacher. They need to have the ability to socialize with students, parents of students, other fellow educators, and also the community in the school environment. Teachers also need to have an inclusive attitude and act objectively without discriminating against their social environment. Teachers or instructors are also expected to be adaptive when facing situations that are different from usual.

4.      Professional competence

Lastly is professional competence. This competency means that every teacher needs to have broad and in-depth mastery of learning material. Teachers also need to understand the subject curriculum and the knowledge being taught. Apart from also mastering scientific methodology and the structure of science.

 

Also read: Complete discussion of 4 Teacher Competencies and their supporting activities!

 

6 Skills needed by modern teachers

Now, competency also needs to be accompanied by more detailed aspects or skills that need to be possessed. In this modern era, it is not surprising that teachers are required to keep up with current developments. Moreover, students can now easily get a lot of information from anywhere, including the Internet. It is a challenge for teachers to be able to keep up with current developments. Therefore, modern teachers need several of the skills below to remain relevant to their students.

1.      Adaptive

A teacher needs to be adaptive in the modern era like now. Ten years ago, teachers needed to be able to easily adapt to the introduction of digital technology replacing analog technology. This time, they need to adapt to Internet technology. The Covid pandemic several years ago forced many teachers to adapt to the situation. Starting from distance learning, to creating learning plans that can be very different from face-to-face learning.

2.      Self-confident

Self-confidence is also needed to be a good teacher in the modern era like now. This is important to be able to give students or students a sense of self-confidence. This is also important so that teachers can stand out for students compared to other teachers. Teachers who have self-confidence are also preferred by many students.

3.      Communicative

Technological developments are not without effects. As students become increasingly overwhelmed with information and content, they often have quite short attention spans. Therefore, now teachers need to be more communicative. A communicative teacher means being able to convey teaching material quite briefly and clearly. This makes students not feel bored due to the long learning and teaching process.

4.      Work in a team

Now, teachers are also expected to be able to work in teams. Once again, because the existing information is increasingly developing, not everything can be captured by the teacher. For this reason, it would be better if teachers could work together with other teachers to be able to learn new technology, new information, and new methods of learning which will prevent many teachers from being left behind.

5.      keep learning

Teachers should also never stop learning. Because new knowledge and information will be available all the time. This is also important so that teaching does not leave behind the information and knowledge of students or students. Learning is not only about knowledge and information, but also about learning methods and media which are now increasingly diverse. Starting from online learning, digital, to very varied learning media.

6.      Imaginative

Lastly, teachers are expected to have imaginative skills when teaching. This will really help in the learning process so that the learning process doesn’t become boring. Not only that, imaginative skills can help teachers to create new learning methods that are very fun, according to the needs of their students themselves.