The Impact of Teacher Certification Program on the Performance of Pre-Service and In-Service English Teachers’ Based on School Principal Assessment

Teacher Certification is an education program to prepare Bachelor graduates to be professional teachers in every subject they carry. Teacher Certification program is aimed to solve issues that emerge among teachers and improve their teaching competencies. This research is conducted to obtain information from School Principals in 50 Kota Regency, Agam Regency, Solok Regency and Payakumbuh City who have English teachers that have graduated from the UNP Teacher Certification Program starting from 2013 to 2019 regarding the impact of Teacher Certification program on English teacher’s pedagogical and professional competencies. 20 school principals assessed 18 in-service English teachers and two pre-service English teachers has been involved as the participants of this research. This study is categorized in Descriptive Quantitative Research with Survey Method. The data were collected by using close-ended and open-ended questionnaires distributed through Google-form. The findings of this research shows that Teacher Certification Program has brought positive impact towards English teachers’ performance according to school principals’ assessment. The majority of English teacher are considered worthy to sit on the positive scoring criterion. Although the numbers that falls under negative scoring criterion is considered very low, English teachers still encounter minor issue that may or may not re-emerge throughout the years. The results and findings from this study are expected to improve the process of conducting Teacher Certification program so that later it will be able to produce a better quality of certified teachers. Furthermore, for the Ministry of Education and Culture as the one in charge of Teacher Certification program to improve and create a better education system in Teacher Certification program.