PROFESSIONALISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON QUALITY TEACHING AMONG MALAY LANGUAGE TEACHER IN RURAL AREA
This study aims to identify the level and influence of professionalism on the quality of teaching among teachers Malay in primary schools located in PPD Tambunan, Keningau, Tenom, and Nabawan / Pensiangan Sabah. The quantitative study used a sample survey method approach to survey methods through the distribution of questionnaires to collect data on 217 samples. The instruments involved in the study are Teacher Professionalism and Teacher Teaching Quality (PABest). Data were analysed using SPPS version 27. The findings showed the level of both variables at a high level that each recorded mean score with a value of 4.00 (sp = .296) and Teacher Teaching Quality, 4.15 (sp = .322) and there was a strong positive linear relationship between professionalism with teacher’s teaching quality that recorded values of (r = .561) respectively. The findings also showed that professionalism has significantly explained 39.6 % of the variance in teacher quality. Therefore, this study concludes that the aspect of teacher professionalism is one of the important indicators in driving the effectiveness of knowledge delivery and in turn contributes to the quality of teacher teaching. Therefore, this study suggests that the aspect of professionalism should be made one of the priority elements in planning the country’s educational framework so that the teaching quality of teachers can be cultivated and improved to ensure that the students’ academic and non-academic fields can be achieved and more realistic.