Students’ Perception Towards Pedagogical and Professional EFL Teacher at Al-Ittihad Islamic Senior High School
Abstract
This research present the students’ perception towards pedagogical
and professional EFL Teacher at Al-Ittihad Islamic Senior High School. For being
a good teacher, they should know what are included in standard competencies of
teacher. The competencies are: (1) Pedagogical Competence, (2) Personality
Competence, (3) Social Competence, (4) Professional Competence. The
researcher conducted the present research to know what is a good teacher in terms
of pedagogical and professional competence of EFL teacher based on students’
perception.
This research used descriptive qualitative as the research design. The
participants were students of twelfth grade at Al-Ittihad Islamic Senior School,
and 10 students were chosen by researcher randomly. The researcher used
questionnaire as the instrument for this research to collect the data. The
instrument was adopted from Palgunadi (2019). The questionnaire is provides 25
statements which was divided into two categories, they are; pedagogical and
professional competencies. The data were collected by using online-based
questionnaire namely Google Form.
The findings of this research showed that more than 7 from 10 student
answered that their English teacher often and always explained the materials well,
creative in using various method to deliver the materials, always observe students’
behavior in participating in teaching-learning process and can make the
atmosphere of learning process conducive. Then, the researcher concluded that
both of pedagogical and professional competencies of one of EFL teacher at Al-
Ittihad Islamic Senior High School were very good, because based on the result of
questionnaire which answered by the respondent perception their EFL teacher
almost doing every item statement in teaching and learning process.