Coaching, Commitment, and Teaching Ability: Teacher Professional Development in the Era of the ASEAN Economic Community

Abstract

Previous research has found that the ideal professional development of teachers in the AEC era through professional coaching can increase teachers' commitment and teaching ability. However, there have been no studies that have examined the relationship between professional coaching, teachers' commitment, and teaching ability in the AEC Era. This study aimed to measure the level of professional coaching, teacher commitment and teaching ability and examine the relationship between teacher professional coaching and teacher commitment to teaching ability in the AEC era of both principals and teachers. This study uses quantitative methods with descriptive statistics of central tendencies and correlational analysis by Pearson. And it involved nine elementary schools in East Java, Indonesia, with respondents of 422 teachers and 317 principals. Based on the results of quantitative analysis, this study was found that the teaching ability of teachers in the AEC era, according to respondents of principals and teachers, was in the very good category. Meanwhile, the analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between teacher professional coaching and teacher commitment and teacher teaching ability.