What Experts and Practitioners Say about Strategies in Acquiring Better Raw Input for Tvet Teacher Education?

Abstract

Technical Vocational Education and Training Teacher Education (TVET-TE) fulfill vital roles in the global education community. They have the potential to bring changes within educational systems that will shape the knowledge and skills of future vocational teacher. The quality of prospective students as raw input is very important, because it influence on the effectiveness and efficiency of the process and the quality of output. In fact, TVET-TE still faced with the low input. It needs strategies in acquiring better raw input. This article based on a Grounded Theory research on apparel teacher education program, in Java 2015, with 8 experts and practitioners in education as key informan. Data collected by in-dept. interview and observation. Data analyzed through the series of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. The result state that based on the point of view of experts and practitioners, there are strategies in acquiring better raw-input: 1) there must be road show of TVET-TE socialization program to schools, 2) exhibition program of Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi implementation, 3) organize academic competitions and championships by TVET-TE for senior/vocational high school students to attract excellent prospective students, 4) give priority to the best ten of senior/vocational graduate entering TVET-TE, 5) give scholarship or tuition fee allowance for excellent students from low-income, 6) wider selection procedure both academic, vocational and psychological, particularly in interest and aptitude tests to the field of teacher training, , 7) Empowering TVET-TE student and graduates to give socialization to their juniors about their experiences and succeed during and after studied in TVET-TE.