Teacher Quality Gap In Elementary And Primary Schools

Abstract

Indonesia has two kinds of schools for children age 7 - 13, which makes it different and unique from some other countries. Elementary school is a school that runs directly from the ministry of education, while primary school is run under by both the ministry of education and the ministry of religion. These two differences influence the quality of its education through the quality of its teachers which bring up “teacher gap”. There is a pretty huge gap between those two on teacher’s side, especially on teacher’s status which affects on their professionalism and teaching skills. The focus of this paper is to answer two main questions; 1) what is the quality gap on teachers in elementary and primary schools?; 2) how does it sustain inequality education to elementary and primary schools? Based on the collected data that was taken by observation, interview and documentation of this case showed that there are teachers here have a lot of differences related on their status which add up inequality on the school environment and education quality. The result of this study is expected to show the gap on teacher quality in elementary and primary schools by using a descriptive method.