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            In the current era of globalization, the tough challenge faced by the Indonesian people is how to prepare quality human resources in sufficient numbers. Only with quality human resources can optimal development be achieved. Education and teachers are like coins which are related to one another. Planning a good future education is to build and improve the quality of teachers.           Building and improving teacher quality can mean directing teachers to a professional attitude. The work of a teacher is a noble profession, which is noble on the human side and noble with God, because teachers carry out the mandate in accordance with the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, namely "... participating in efforts to educate the nation's life."           The quality of the education system as a whole is related to the quality of teachers. This is because teachers are the spearhead in efforts to improve the quality of services and educational outcomes, especially in bui

 MODELING TECHNIQUES             The contextual approach (CTL) of modeling means that in learning certain skills or knowledge, there is a model that can be imitated. (Depdiknas 2002: 16)             Senduk and Nurhadi (2003: 50) argue that modeling or modeling techniques is one of the seven components of contextual learning. That is, in learning certain skills or knowledge, there is a model that can be imitated. Modeling basically forms the thought thought of, demonstrating how teachers want their students to learn and do what teachers want their students to do. Modeling can take the form of demonstrations, giving examples of concepts or learning activities. In other words, the model can be a way of operating something, and so on. That way, the teacher provides a model on how to learn.             Nuryatin (2010: 34) states that modeling can be interpreted as an effort to provide models (examples) related to material and learning activities carried out by students. Modeling must be car