Pre-Service Teachers’-Based Lesson Study: An Effort to Improve the Professionalism of Arabic Teacher Candidate

Abstract

—The purpose of Pre-Service Teachers’ for the students (practitioner) to gain educational experience factually in the field, both with the school administration and its teaching learning process. One of the main factors of the students’ lack of confident is the lack of communication and discussion related to the issues of teaching and learning in the classroom. This weakness can be overcome by a guidance process model based on lesson study principal and procedure, because with Lesson Study the learning scenario, implementation, and reflection can be discussed by the three groups and also the solution to activate the class can be found, so the students or practitioners are able to “study”. The method use is qualitative descriptive. The result shows that the Pre-Service Teachers’ model of guidance and evaluation process with lesson study based can increase the professionalism of future Arabic teacher which related to the pedagogic, professional, social, and personality of the teacher competency, and the five practitioner who use the Pre-Service Teachers’ based Lesson Study are more “ready” than those who doesn’t use lesson study.