Analysis of Primary School Teachers’ Pedagogical Competencies through Talent Search Matrix

Abstract

One of the essential competent instructive strategies mandatory for teachers to master is the pedagogical element.This strategy adopted by teachers shapes the spirituality of the teaching profession, helps them in understanding the basic potential and learning performance of individual students, and becomes a fundamental aspect in their competency profile. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the characteristics of primary school teacher pedagogical competencies through talent search matrix in public and private primary school. This is a quantitative research with a descriptive approach.Data were collected from 264 teachers of state and private elementary schools in the Municipality of West Jakarta in DKI Jakarta Province, through a web-based application using the talent search matrix (TSM). The data obtained were further analyzed using the quantitative descriptive method. The result showed thatthe spirituality of the teaching profession, basic potential and learning performance of the teacher competency profile in both public and private primary school is low and needs to be improved. Therefore, teachers need to develop these fundamental aspects as the key to successful learning.