Guru Prajabatan (PPG)  which suggest that Pre 
Teacher Professional Education Program, hereinafter 
referred to as PPG Program is an education program 
held to prepare graduates of Non-Education S1 / 
DIV who have the talent and interest to become 
teachers to master the full competence of teachers in 
accordance with national standards of education so 
as to obtain a certificate of professional educators on 
early childhood education, primary and secondary 
education. (Ministerial Regulation, 2013). 
2  LITERATURE REVIEW 
2.1  Pedagogical Competence 
Teaching is a special job performed by teachers or 
lecturers. This work is tangible in a series of 
activities carried out by the teacher by doing the 
process of managing and organizing learning 
activities to foster and encourage students to carry 
out the learning process. (Nur Ali, 2017).The 
professional work of teaching is a job that requires a 
steady preparation through education and training, 
done based on science, art or improvisation, and 
specialized skills. It requires rules and regulations or 
a code of ethics to develop a career as a teacher. 
Eventually, it is expected that the teacher can carry 
out the main task for facilitating the interests of 
students. In order to be able to fulfill the 
responsibilities, a teacher must understand his 
position or job as a professional teacher by referring 
to his main duties and responsibilities (Nur Ali, 
2017). 
Armstrong in Sudjana (1988: 148) revealed that 
teachers’ duties are classified into five types, (1) 
responsibility in teaching, (2) responsibility in 
providing guidance, (3) responsibility in developing 
curriculum, (4) responsibility in developing the 
profession and (5) responsibility in fostering good 
relations with people. According to Law No. 14 of 
2005, it is mandatory for teachers to own some 
competencies in accordance with the recognition of 
teachers as a profession. Based on article 10 verse 1, 
teachers must have four competencies, including: 
pedagogical competence, personality competence, 
social competence and professional competence, 
obtained through professional education. (Nur Ali, 
2017) 
In terms of pedagogical competence, teachers 
must: (1) master the characteristics of students, from 
physical, moral, spiritual, social, cultural, emotional 
and intellectual aspects, (2) master learning theory 
and educational learning principles, (3) develop a 
curriculum related to the subjects taught, (4) 
organize the educational learning, (5) utilize 
information and communication technology for the 
benefit of learning, (6) facilitate the development of 
potential students to actualize themselves, (7) 
communicate effectively, empathetically and 
politely with students, (8) organize an evaluation of 
the process and learning outcomes, (9) utilize the 
results of the assessment for the benefit of learning, 
and (10) conduct reflective actions to improve the 
quality of learning. 
Based on the theory above, it can be concluded 
that being a professional teacher, as described in the 
Law on the teaching profession, must be equipped 
with pedagogical competence namely teaching 
competence, starting from recognizing students' 
psychology, mastering the material and having a 
variety of motivational learning methods for 
students’ learning, optimizing the potential of 
learners, being able to use tools and learning media, 
building good communication with students until 
evaluating and reflecting to improve students' 
progress. 
2.2  The Practice of Teaching 
One of the main tasks of being a teacher is to teach. 
Teaching is a professional job that requires a special 
expertise through education and experience. 
Therefore, not everyone can be a good teacher. To 
carry out the duties and responsibilities 
professionally, a teacher must have teaching abilities 
and skills in theory and practice. Teaching ability is 
a combination of intellectual abilities, teaching 
skills, talent, and art. Teaching skills can be trained 
continuously through teaching training. An 
intellectual ability can be learned from educational 
theory, and teaching and learning theory. While 
talent and art in teaching can be developed through 
various teaching experiences (Ali, 2017). 
In the implementation of teaching practice in 
schools / madrasahs, the prospective teachers have a 
double duty; as individuals who are learning to 
teach, and as individuals who at the same time make 
students learn to achieve the learning goals. 
Therefore, since the students need to achieve a set of 
learning objectives, an error made by the prospective 
teachers might harm the students. In this 
circumstance, the main goal of the prospective 
teacher for teaching and learning can be ignored.  
To avoid this kind of shortcoming in teaching 
performance, prospective teachers need to 
continuously practice their teaching skills integrated 
with other components of learning through teaching