Managerial Competence of School Principles in Improving Teacher Professionality At Sma Negeri 3 Palu

Abstract

Efforts to produce quality schools are influenced by many factors, one of which is the managerial competence of school principals, and to find out the managerial competence of school principals can be seen from the efforts made by school principals, especially in improving teacher professionalism. So the sub-themes discussed in this article are how the principal's efforts in improving teacher professionalism, and what are the implications of the principal's efforts on improving teacher professionalism. This study uses qualitative methods, data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation, data analysis techniques used are data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions.

The results showed that the efforts made by the principal to improve teacher professionalism at SMA Negeri 3 Palu included holding technical guidance (BIMTEK) at the beginning of the new school year or at the beginning of the semester, participating in teacher work groups (KKG), and subject teacher deliberations (MGMP). ) and carry out supervision in order to be able to evaluate the work of teachers and learning to be used as a reference in improving everything in the future. The principal's efforts can have positive implications for the ability and skills of teachers in learning, making teachers more disciplined through the supervision of the principal and passionate about working with encouragement and motivation from the principal.