By: Marsigit
The Pshycological Aspect That Found
Reviewed by: Ulul Azmi Najitama
The development of the teaching profession today is already a demand for a teacher. Profession have someone who focuses on understanding the job based on skills, abilities, techniques, and procedures based on intellectuals (Volmer & Mills, 1966, Cully, 1969). Teachers have a role as a facilitator to facilitate students to learn the most by using various strategies or methods, media, and learning resources. Unlike in the past, the teacher only as a teaching center that just transferring knowledge to students, is called the traditional teaching paradigm. In modern times, as now, the teaching methods used of course also different, namely to act as a facilitator of the above-mentioned earlier. The personality of the teacher competencies include: acting in accordance with the norms of religion, law, social, and national culture of Indonesia; present themselves as personally honest, noble, and role model for students and the community; present yourself as a person steady, stable, mature, wise, and authoritativ, high responsibility, a sense of pride to be a teacher, and self-confidence, and uphold high-teaching profession.Teachers also have a role as a developer of a method or model that fits well and is used in accordance with the times and circumstance students. A teacher of mathematics required for innovative ways to always make the discussion of how we gain knowledge about the learning of mathematics in accordance with current trends. With such methods it is expected that students can develop the potential that exists within him.Implications of mathematics in the development of teaching methods. Mathematics as search activity patterns and relationships, according to this view in the development of methods or models of learning, teachers need to: (1) provide an opportunity for students to conduct discovery and investigation to determine the patterns of relationships, (2) provide an opportunity for students to perform experiment with a variety of ways, (3) encourage students to discover the sequence, difference, comparison, grouping, etc., (4) encourage students to draw general conclusions, (5) help students understand and discover the relationship between understanding one another. In addition there are many more implications of mathematics that can serve as a view to developing a method or model of learning.
