BEBERAPA PANDANGAN TENTANG GURU SEBAGAI PENDIDIK

Abstract

In the teaching and learning process in education, one of the most important elements in it is a teacher. The position of teachers in the implementation of education is at the forefront. Knowledge about teachers as educators, for a teacher, is a normative reference in fostering self-awareness as one of the five factors of education whose existence greatly determines the course of an educational process. The purposes of this paper were to know and to understand clearly the meaning of teachers as educators, to know the views of teacher typology both regarding the requirements, characteristics, and duties of teachers, and to know the views of the multi-role of teachers carried out at school and outside of school. This paper hoped that the data will be used as reading material regarding the understanding of teachers as educators. Teachers as educators whose job is to teach, educate, and train students with the aim that these students can have knowledge, skills, noble morals, and can think intelligently. The typology of teachers as educators is reflected in several requirements, characteristics, and duties that must be possessed and attached to a teacher. The multi-role of the teacher is very complex and is not only played at school, but also outside the school.