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Teacher or Administrator?

Being a teacher is great however being a good teacher is hard. In Indonesia, teacher should be able to create program tahunan, known as PROTA (annual program), program semester, known as PROMES (semester program), syllabus, kartu soal (testing planning card), kisi kisi soal (syllabus for testing planning) lesson planning, evaluation, enrichment, and remedial program. All this administrative works are defined as one of the teaching device.

By doing so, teacher will be a busy administrator for a while. However, if teacher don't make it, then the assessor or the supervisor will consider the teacher as unqualified teacher. In the other hand, if teacher is always busy about creating these too many administrative works, then, sometimes teaching activity in the classroom will a little bit ignored.

As a teacher who is working in a stated owned school, I have to prepare all this administrative works, and I've found it really hard to manage my time since I think I have such an overloaded schedule for a week. I have to teach 32 hours a week. It means that I almost don't have chance to prepare my all administrative work in short time due to the deadlines set by the assessor or supervisor.

In conclusion, being an ideal teacher needs strong and serious effort. Instead of being a good teacher, in Indonesia, teacher will be more like an administrative staff.