The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Science deliver’s the highest standards of research and teaching in its efforts to improve education policies and practices in Indonesia. The study programme offered at UNSRI’s Faculty of Teacher Training provides a comprehensive approach to the teacher management and development process that equips graduates of this faculty with the skills needed to influence Indonesia’s youth. As such, the development of this young demographic is crucial to Indonesia’s own long-term competitiveness within the globalised economy.
Due to Indonesia’s rapidly changing economic landscape, the country’s education system has had to evolve to face the challenges of globalisation as well as provide solutions to an advancing economy. The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Science promote higher standards and enhanced competencies for teachers through its study programmes. Degrees at the faculty are offered in the undergraduate and master’s level, covering a wide range of majors such as English, History, Mathematics, and Science Education. For its master’s programme, the faculty is collaborating with Utrecht University in the Netherlands in the field of mathematics.
Students are taught the foundations of the science of pedagogy and instructional design that ensures pupils with different learning styles can be taught within the same lesson or activity. Furthermore, students are also taught curriculum organisation, planning, as well as developing strategies to promote positive behaviour among pupils. As such, graduates of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Science have the necessary competencies; combining integrated skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to advance education in Indonesia and enable the sector to become one of the fundamental priorities in the government’s nation building strategies.