Managing Teachers Resources for Improving Quality of Education:An Experience from Gorontalo, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the policy strategy in managing of teacher resource in Gorontalo regency, Indonesia. The strategy, which using to manage teacher resources consists of teacher need assessment, rolling teacher, multi-grade teaching and in-service training. The analysis of strategy was carried out through the comparison of the advantage/strength and the weakness of each strategy. The analysis result shows that rolling teacher proves to be the best alternative solution to manage the problems in planning, assigning, distributing, placing, and developing the teachers. The result of this analysis could be the best alternative strategy for the government of Gorontalo Regency, in order to deal with the problems found in the management of teacher resource in continuing and consistent ways,

Keywords: Policy strategy, teacher, resource, Gorontalo regency.