Teacher Duties

TEACHER DUTIES A teacher is a leader. A teacher is an architect who can shape the soul and character of students, a teacher has the power to shape and build the personality of students into someone who will be useful for religion, country and nation. Teachers have the task of preparing capable, intelligent, and skilled people who can be expected to build themselves and build the nation and state. a) Tasks: Teachers have duties, both those bound by service and outside of service, in the form of devotion. If we group them, there are three types of teacher duties, namely: (a) Duties in the Professional field, (b) Humanitarian duties, (c) Duties in the Community field. • Duties in the professional field such as educating, teaching, and training. Educating means continuing and developing values, namely life values. Teaching means continuing and developing science and technology, then training means developing skills, namely skills in students. • The teacher's duties in the humanitarian field at school must make himself a second parent, he must be able to attract sympathy so that he becomes an idol for his students. • The teacher's duties in the community field, society places teachers in a more honorable place in their environment because from a teacher it is expected to be able to obtain knowledge. b) Role and Function of Teachers 1. Teachers as Educators Teachers are educators, who will become figures, role models and identification for students and their environment. With this, teachers must have certain personal quality standards, which include responsibility, authority, independence and discipline. Teachers must understand values, moral and social norms, and try to behave and act in accordance with these values and norms. Teachers must also have a responsible attitude towards their actions in the learning process at school. As educators, teachers must dare to make decisions independently in relation to learning and competency formation, and act in accordance with the conditions of students and the environment. 2. Teachers as Instructors In their duties, teachers help students who are developing to be able to learn something they do not yet know, form competencies and understand the standard material being studied. Teachers as instructors must continue to follow technological developments, so that what is conveyed to students is up-to-date and not outdated. Technological developments change the role of teachers from teachers who are tasked with delivering learning materials to facilitators who are tasked with providing learning facilities. This is possible because technological developments can produce many books at relatively cheap prices and students can learn via the internet without time and space limitations, learn via television, radio and newspapers that are always present before us. The rapid flow of information, as well as the rapid development of technology and science have raised many questions about the duties of teachers as instructors. 3. Teachers as Mentors Teachers as mentors can be likened to travel guides who are based on their knowledge and experience that can be accounted for. As mentors, teachers must formulate clear objectives, determine learning times, determine what learning must be taken, use learning instructions and assess their fluency according to the needs and abilities of students. As a guide, all activities carried out by the teacher must be based on good cooperation between the teacher and the students. The teacher has rights and responsibilities in every trip that is planned and implemented. 4. Teacher as Director The teacher is a director for students, and can even be for parents. As a director, the teacher must be able to direct students in solving the problems they face, direct students to make decisions and find their identity. Teachers are also required to be able to direct students in developing their potential, so that students can build good character for themselves in facing real life in society. 5. Teacher as Trainer The education and learning process requires skills training, both intellectual and motoric, so that it requires teachers to act as trainers, whose job is to train students in the formation of basic competencies according to the potential of each student. The training carried out, in addition to having to pay attention to basic competencies and standard materials, must also be able to pay attention to differences in individual students and their environment. For that, teachers must know a lot, even though it does not cover everything and not everything perfectly, because that is not possible. 6. Teachers as Assessors Assessment or evaluation is the most complex aspect of learning, because it involves many backgrounds and relationships, as well as other variables that have meaning when related to the context that is almost impossible to separate from each aspect of the assessment. There is no learning without assessment, because assessment is a process of determining the quality of learning outcomes, or a process to determine the level of achievement of student learning objectives. As a process, assessment is carried out with principles and with appropriate techniques, maybe tests or non-tests. Whatever technique is chosen, assessment must be carried out with clear procedures, which include three stages, namely preparation, implementation and follow-up.