Urgency of Teacher Personality Competency in Building Student Character

Abstract

This study aims to make teachers better understand and be aware of their personality competencies. So, students can imitate or imitate the teacher's personality and can build student character through these personality competencies. In addition, the teacher's personality competence is also very influential as a determinant of how the classroom atmosphere is created. If a teacher has good personality competencies, then a good atmosphere will be created and the character of students is strong. The development of student character greatly affects the quality of good education. So, nowadays the construction of student brothers must be further improved. The research method used is literature review by examining various journal references related to the personal competence of teachers and character building of students. This literature review is by reviewing various journal references related to teacher personality competencies. The results showed that teacher competence was closely related to the character development of students. Where there are four teacher competencies including personality competence,
social competence, professional competence and pedagogical competence. What can be used as a foundation in building student character is the teacher's personality competence. There are five pillars of character that must be built by students, namely, religious, national, independent, mutual cooperation and integrity. These pillars can be achieved if a teacher sets himself as an example. So that the teacher's personality determines whether the pillars of character can be implemented properly or not.