Reconstructing the Curriculum of Academic Education for Prospective Teachers to Meet the Standard of Indonesian Qualification Framework

Abstract

Based on the Law number 14, 2005, teacher has been stipulated as a profession. Due to this, someone choosing teacher as his/her profession is required to have special skills or expertise. By design, it is required that the prospective teachers in Indonesia take a one-year profession education after their graduation from bachelor’s degree (S-1) in education and non-education majors. This policy certainly gives impact on the teacher education institution as the one in charge of the teacher production. One of the areas that needs adjustment is the curriculum of teacher education institution. The curriculum must be reconstructed in order to meet a whole teacher competency covering academic competency of education obtained from academic education and professional competency, obtained from profession education. This paper is limited to discuss the reconstruction of academic education curriculum for teachers based on Indonesian qualification framework.