Management Strategies for Optimizing Teacher Competencies to Enhance Learning Quality in Elementary Schools During the Digital Era
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https://doi.org/10.58905/jse.v7i1.1.804Keywords:
Digital Era, Educational Management, Learning Quality, Professional Learning Community, Teacher CompetencyAbstract
Digital technology requires elementary school teachers to integrate technology into instruction, so that the quality of learning in the digital era depends substantially on how schools manage the development of teacher competencies. This study analyzes teacher competency management for improving learning quality, covering planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling, together with the supporting and inhibiting factors, at SDN 2 Cibogogirang and SDN Rawasari in Purwakarta Regency. A qualitative multi-site case study collected data from fourteen informants (principals, teachers, digital learning coordinators, and students) through in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, and document study. The data were analyzed with the interactive model of data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing, and trustworthiness was established through triangulation, member checking, and peer debriefing. Planning was based on analysis of teacher competencies and student needs. Organizing relied on a teacher learning community at the larger school and a designated person in charge of digital learning at the smaller one. Actuating integrated digital tools into lesson design under principals acting as instructional leaders, and controlling used continuous academic supervision whose results informed subsequent training. Teachers reported more interactive, student-centered lessons, and the principal constraints were workload, time, and uneven digital literacy. Both schools lacked baseline indicators and aggregated supervision records. The study concludes that the managerial logic is consistent across sites while its instruments vary with staff size, so that schools should select instruments proportionate to their own conditions and strengthen the measurement of change.
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