Title:
THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERPRENEURSHIP, MULTICULTURAL PERSONALITY, CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE 21st century PROFESSIONALISM TOWARDS VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS |
Abstract:
Teachers as professionals have a responsibility in preparing themselves to meet the demands of 21st century challenges. The 21st century requires the utilization of ICT and the mastery of special skills must be faced by teachers with appropriate competence and professionalism because the quality of teaching depend on the quality of teacher. Teacherpreneurship and multicultural personality are the characters required by professional teachers in the 21st century. Teacherpreneurship refers to a teacher who has the character of an entrepreneur and is able to face various demands of the times while multicultural personality is the character of teachers who are open minded and easy to adjust with development. Based on this background, this study aims to determine the effect of teacherpreneurship and multicultural personality to the 21st century professionalism through the continuing professional development of vocational high school teachers of business and management. This research employed quantitative method with Structural Equation Modeling Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) analysis. The samples are 159 vocational high school teachers of business and management in Surakarta, Indonesia. The results showed that the variation of the 21st century professionalism variable can be explained by the variables of teacherpreneurship, multicultural personality, and continuing professional development. Teachers show that they use various types of media or model instructional, involving student in learning, develop an innovative class, and give the best effort for their career. Therefore, teachers should develop their teacherpreneurship and multicultural personality through professional communities such as Teachers' Organization (MGMP) to collaborate into a 21st century professional teacher. |
