Muhammad Akbal, Firman Umar
This research aims is to know legal level understanding of Civic teacher as participants on Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Profesi Guru (PLPG) Rayon 124 UNM year 2017. The type of this research was descriptive research. The number of sample in this research was 31 Civic teachers at first generation who came from South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi province that spread in 17 district. The results of the research showed that teacher level understanding about legislation rule in the field of educators' profession was not adequate if PLPG graduation criteria is used as assessments standard. It means most of civic teacher does not understand yet the legal substance which related to legislation in the field of professions educators, it realized that one of teacher professionalism development indicator is that teachers know and understand every laws / policies in the field of education particularly related to their job as a teacher, so that every personal teachers show their attitude and awareness to the legal. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Social Science Faculty, State University of Makassar, Indonesia