Students’ Perception on Female Teachers

As one of the pedagogic activities, teacher plays important roles to make students learn directly from their teachers in order to develop their cognition, affection, and psychomotor. In this case, there are some competencies have to be performed by all teachers, namely pedagogic, professional, personal, and social competencies as the requirements to teaching and learning activities. The facts show that many female teachers perform teacher competencies better than male teachers because of the meekness and good appearance of female teachers. This study was conducted to know the students’ perception on male teachers in English Education Department of Unismuh Makassar. The data were collected through interview, and analyzed descriptively in qualitative way. The findings indicated that the students mostly like female teachers because they perform almost all teacher competencies better. Therefore, it was concluded that female teachers are better than male teachers in English Education Department of Unismuh Makassar. Keywords: male and female teachers, pedagogic, professional, personal, and social competencies, performance, appearanc