THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN SOCIAL SUBJECT TOWARDS LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF 5th GRADE STUDENTS AT MIN 1 BANYUMAS

Teacher is a person who is capable to transfer knowledge that will help students to build, identify and acquire skills that will be used to face the challenges in life. Teacher should have four competencies, especially professional competence. Professional competence is defined as a teacher skill to master the learning material. The teacher’s professional competence has contribution toward students’ learning achievement. The aims of the research are to find out the influence of teachers’ professional competence in social subject and to measure the percentage of it. The type of the research is a field research using quantitative approach. The research used survey method. It is defined as the collection information from a sample of individuals through responses to questions. The independent variable of the research was teachers’ professional competence and there were 4 teachers as the subject. The dependent variable of the research was learning achievement of students. The population in this research were 114 students. It was all of students of 5th grade. The sample is a part of the population of grade 5. The number of sample were 82 respondents. The techniques of collecting data in this research used interview, questionnaire, documentation, and test. Meanwhile, the techniques of data analysis used simple linear regression. Based on the results of research, the researcher found that there was significant influence of teachers’ professional competence in social subject towards students learning achievement at MIN 1 Banyumas. That was shown from coefficient determination 0.94, it meant that the students’ achievements were influenced by teachers’ professional competence 94% and 6% affected by other factors. The calculation result of simple linear regression obtained Ŷ = 0.196 + 1.046X. It meant that the teacher was not competence, because the student achievement reach only 0.196. Hence, the teacher competence had important role for students’ achievements. Each 1 point for the increasing of X variable caused 1.236 point of student achievement