Teachers’ belief on the importance of personalized learning model in Achieving 21st Century Competencies

A changing rapid world has impacted to the need of 21st century competencies, not only for students but also for teachers. Therefore, this study aimed to identify teachers’ behavioural attitude, perceived norm, and personal agency as it might be able to change teachers’ behaviour and intention to implement personalized learning in achieving 21st century competencies. This study is an exploratory qualitative research that used semi-structured interviews and questionnaires as the instruments to gain data from primary school teachers at East Java. The result of this study revealed that teachers’ intention to perform personalized learning has been influenced by their belief about the positive impact of personalized learning in developing 21st century skills. In case of personal agency, teachers’ self-efficacy in using technology aimed at personalization and making more meaningful learning for the student motivated teachers to perform personalized learning. Those results provide some insightful considerations regarding to the need to build teachers’ belief about the importance of personalized learning at disruptive era since it will be a foundational consideration in shifting teacher paradigm towards the implementation of personalized learning that fits to students’ needs and characteristics.