Pre-service Teacher Training

This policy brief outlines three strategies that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MoECRT) can implement to ensure teacher colleges, as teacher education providers, improve the quality of their graduates.

Ms Rina is a primary school teacher in Indonesia. There are hundreds of thousands of teachers like Ms Rina, who began their careers with uncertainty in recruitment and employment status. With such an unclear career path, how does it affect the quality of teachers?

An impactful teacher education programme equips teachers with knowledge and skills to improve their effectiveness. Empirical findings on the effectiveness of teacher preparation programmes show that the accountability of institutions and teachers should not only be based on the knowledge or skills produced but also on student learning. Our study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a pre-service teacher education programme in Indonesia, known as Pendidikan Profesi Guru Prajabatan or PPG.

RISE Programme in Indonesia studies whether teacher candidates' screening tests into Pendidikan Profesi Guru (PPG) or Teacher Professional Education, a postgraduate education programme in Indonesia, can predict their performance at the end of the programme and in an actual classroom situation at the beginning of their teaching career.

The early years of a teacher’s career are crucial to the formation of their professional identity—a complex process of reconciling their personal attributes with the demands of the profession. This study explores the identity formation of novice teachers in Indonesia and seeks to identify the various aspects that shape this process. Specifically, we examine how Indonesia’s current teacher policy landscape affects novice teachers’ perspectives on teaching and their profession.