Step-by-step explanation:
Currently, the issue of addressing the teacher quality is crucial so that schools should be able to
equip students with the skills and knowledge that facilitate them to respond to societal needs and to
successfully compete on the labor market. This issue should be addressed through teacher professionalism
and development that requires training of teachers as well as availability of teaching facilities [1]. For a long
time in many societies, fields like medicine and law have established their own professional characteristics
that distinguish them from all other occupations and urged that teaching is not a profession [2]. According to
the research Forest Tribology And Anthropology, “society is a complex of forms or processes each of which
is living and growing by interaction with the other, the whole being so unified that what takes place in one
part affects all the rest” [3]. This study used the aforementioned definition of the society and implicated that
teachers, students, and government are integral parts of it.
Further studies confirmed that teaching is also a profession because professionalism is concerned
with the ability, code of ethics, autonomy and specialized knowledge that someone has in order to deliver the
service to the society. Therefore, during the process of teaching and learning, the teacher is also delivering
the service to the society by teaching the students, by sharing experiences with his fellow teachers through
professional learning communities; by devising teaching and learning methods; and by participating in
curriculum customization [1]. Meanwhile, another research has been developed from the previous journal
that stated teacher education as the program, policies and procedures that deliberated to equip potential teachers with attitude, knowledge, behaviors and skill that require to perform the task effectively in the
classroom, schools and wider community [4]. Therefore, teacher should understand the content of their
teaching to transfer knowledge for their students, and the role of teacher expected to fit in society and
enhance teacher’s knowledge and their professional background. It is also expected that teacher professional
development is expected as a strategy to drive change and improve practice.
As Evans said in Sach, that in professional development as a key process within the wider agenda of
raising standards and increasing societal growth capacity by improving policy and practice in education [5].
In many developing countries, teachers are described by ‘the public’, the society, and this has affected policy
reforms and teacher professionalism in general. As Huang, et al. research that mentioned into the public
perception of teachers has put it: ‘the status of teachers is an amalgam of a variety of impressions gained by
members of the public from their own experiences as children, the interactions they have with their children’s
teachers and more importantly, the image that is conveyed by the media’ [6]. This discussion is needed to be
discussed because its connection between society and teacher professionalism. Society needs to understand
how teacher practice in class and society, how it can be effective and efficient. Because, nowadays it is
important to recognize the importance of effective and efficient in order to eliminate students’
misconceptions [7].
Effective teaching contributes to the students’ performance and this depends on qualified-trained
teachers, school administration, parents and conducive environment for teaching and learning. It is proven
that students are more successful in their academic achievements, in the societies where teachers perceive
their profession as valued [8].