The relationship of academic supervision, educational profession insentive and teacher competence with teacher performance at the performing middle schools in Malange, East Java, Indonesia

This research was done in 15 performing middle schools of 117 private and state middle schools in Malang City, East Java, Indonesia. This research was aimed at finding out the direct and indirect relationship of academic supervision, educational profession insentive, educators competence towards teachers perormance. The population of this research were teachers of the 15 performing schools in Malang with 146 certified national exam teachers from 11 schools as samples. This research employed the descriptive correlational method. Data were collected using valid and reliable questionairs to capture four variables, comprising the Implementation of the Academic Supervision, Educational Profession Incentive, Teacher Competence, and Teacher Performance. Data was analyzed using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) using AMOS. 20 statistical software package. Results of the reseach revealed that (1) there was not direct significant relationship of the academic supervision towards teacher competence and performance, (2) the educational profession insentive had direct significant relationship towards the teacher competence and performance, (3) teacher competence has direct significant relationship towards teacher performance, (4) There was no indirect significant relationship between academic supervision and teacher performance through certified teacher competence, and (5) The Educational Profession incentive had direct significant relationship towards teacher perormance through teacher competence. It was suggested that teachers must have changed their method of teaching from teacher centred to student centred teaching and learning as the consequence of the 2013 curriculum using scientific method.