LECTURERS PROFESSIONALITY TOWARDS PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS PERCEPTION AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT

Institutes of Teachers Education (LPTK) requires to develop some steps to strengthen its internal capacity through lecturer professionalism in shaping pre-service teachers perception and professional commitment. Research is needed to create creative and futuristic strategies to overcome the problems: (1) the professionalism of pre-service teacher graduates is still low, (2) Institutes of Teachers Education have not met the standard, (3) pre-service teachers have not been professional. The research was conducted in teacher training and education facultyand the subjects were 161 active students (saturated sampling).The Survey method was applied with causal analysis and questionnaire as data collection instrument. Result showed that (1) lecturers were quite professional, (2) students perception to teacher profession was very high, (3) pre-service teachers had high commitment to their profession, (4) it had a positive, strong and very significant effectbetween professional lecturer and students perception, (5) it had a positive, strong and very significant influence between students perception and commitment to their profession.The research recommends: (1) improving the capacity of lecturers professionalism, (2) optimizing students perceptions on professional lecturers, (3) involving parent roles and related research, (4) developing the lecturer professional and research planning (RIP) policy on learning and academic culture in in Institutes of Teacher s Education.

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