Professional Teacher Training Program (PPG)

  Curriculum used in Indonesian Professional Teacher Training Program (PPG)

Written by Aziza Restu Febrianto

Reference: National Policies 2012 established by Indonesian Ministry of Education and Cultures 

Indonesian Professional Teacher Training Program (PPG) is one of the Governmental strategic programs in 2013 intended to support the national teachers’ development in Indonesia. The main purpose of the program is to enhance the teachers’ competencies, skills, and qualifications in Education.

According to the national fundamental rules of policies about professional teachers and lecturers (UU RI No 14/2005 Tentang Guru dan Dosen and PP RI No. 74/2008 Tentang Guru), there are basically four teachers’ competencies as the material components included in the curriculum of the Indonesian Professional Teacher Training Program (PPG) as follows;

1. Competence of Professionalism
2. Competence of Pedagogic/ Educating Proficiency
3. Competence of Personality
4. Competence of Social

It is strongly assumed that with those four competencies, teachers will have strong basic skills of teaching and using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in class. They will also be able to:

1. make, to execute, and to evaluate the teaching plans.
2. do further actions as a follow-up to the evaluation they make by personal guidance and training for the students.
3. make incessant researches related to education.
4. improve their professionalism on an ongoing basis.