STRENGTHENING EDUCATION TO GENERATE EDUCATIONAL GRADUATES (TEACHER PREPARATION AND CERTIFICATION IN AUSTRALIA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Considering that education has become the engine room for modern economies and the
backbone for prosperity of any nation, there is a massive drive on a global scale to upgrade the
quality of education a nation provides to its citizens. The top performing education systems
have demonstrated that the quality of teacher training and raising the social status of teachers is
a pre-requisite to improve the quality of education the citizens of a nation receive. This paper
focuses on (a) the attributes of quality teacher training and quality teachers, (b) discussion of
Australian and Singaporean approach to teacher training, and (c) need for Indonesian teacher
training institutes to upgrade their strategies to provide quality training. Since teachers are
the most valuable to schools investment in teacher professionalism is vital to ensure that they
are equipped with an evidence-based repertoire of pedagogical skills that are demonstrably
effective in meeting the developmental and learning needs of all students.
Keywords: teacher professionalism, education system, teacher training