The Islamic religious education teacher’s professionalism in instilling religious students’ character

Abstract

Teacher performance plays a vital role in teaching and learning. Teachers must motivate their students as a motivator to increase the teacher’s professionalism. Of course, he wants to instill in students an intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually intelligent character. It will lead them to become valuable and meaningful human beings before humans, especially before Allah SWT. In SMA N 4 Metro, where Islamic religious education is taught, it is hoped that it will improve noble morals for its students so that the desires they wish to achieve are spiritually intelligent and can be achieved. This research has a formulation and objective: how to determine the Islamic education teacher’s professionalism in instilling religious students’ character at SMA Negeri 4 Metro. The research results show that the Islamic religious education teacher’s professional role is to motivate students to increase their spiritual intelligence. The giving must also be correct. The Islamic Education teachers' way of motivating students is carried out in various ways by the teachers at SMA N 4 Metro.