WHAT IS YOUR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PROFILE (DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF CLASSROOM OBSERVATION PROGRAM IN SMART EI)5

Abstract

There are various ways how to improve and develop teacher's competencies, namely selfmonitoring,
audiotape & video tape recordings, student’s expectation, student’s test results, &
classroom observation. They can be used as tools to evaluate the teacher’s competencies. Classroom
observation program is the teacher's professional development program in SMART Ekselensia
Indonesia (SMART EI), a boarding school for marginalized students of Indonesia.
Descriptive research used in this study is to describe teacher’s competencies in teaching
situation in classroom, that is teacher aspects (personality, mastery of subject matter, voice, clarity of
explanation, openness to student’s opinion), teaching methodology aspects (organization, contextual,
provoke critical thinking, motivator, class management, questioning technique), and student aspects
(attention, participation, class starts on time). Subjects of this study is 30 teachers who are teaching in
SMART EI. The data instruments consist of the results of class observation and notes of teacher's
reflection after teaching. The quantitative and qualitative methods used to analyze the data collected
from the classroom observations.
Based on the results of data analysis found a few things as follows: (1) there is a significant
correlation between teaching experience and teacher aspects; (2) no significant correlation between
teaching experience and teaching methodology aspects; (3) there is a significant correlation between
teacher aspects and student aspects, (4) there is a significant correlation between teaching
methodology aspects and student aspects, (5) the teachers in SMART EI, at average have taught for
5,4 years, and they also teaching experience the longest 10 years and the shortest 8 months.