The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions of English teachers in Cawas, Klaten on educational supervision in relation to their professionalism. There are three areas to describe: (a) the English teachers? perception on educational supervision; (b) the English teachers? perception on their professionalism after being supervised; and (c) the English teachers? professionalism after being supervised.
The data were collected from the interview with three English teachers in Cawas, Klaten, classroom observation, and documents analysis. The data the researcher had included were all about how the English teachers in Cawas, Klaten perceived educational supervision in relation to their professionalism. All the subjects in this research had been supervised before, thus they could give their perceptions on educational supervision and its relation to their professionalism as English teachers.
The result of the research showed that the teachers believed that educational supervision is an ongoing process to observe the way teachers teach in the classroom according to the lesson plan and to improve their teaching skills in which they acknowledged that the preparation before conducting educational supervision was their biggest challenge, even though they got pretty much time to prepare it. They also showed dissatisfactions with the quality of the supervisors who did not have the same background of study as theirs. However, they all admitted that they felt the improvement in assessing their students by implementing various kinds of assessments, in using various teaching media and audio visual aids, and in managing their classes. Moreover, all of the teachers said that they joined MGMP and had willingness to continue their education to improve their professionalism as English teachers. Unfortunately, none of them wrote teaching journal as their teaching reflection in which it also could be used to improve their professionalism.
Based on the facts that conducting educational supervision could improve English teachers professionalism, there should be more teachers doing the same thing.
Keywords: educational supervision, perception, professionalism
