SCHOOL PRINCIPAL'S STRATEGY IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL (SMK) GRADUATES ISLAM INSAN CENDEKIA MEMPAWAH HILIR

Abstract

This research discusses the principal's strategy in improving the quality of graduates at the Insan Scholar Islamic Vocational School which apparently already has good graduates, namely seen from the students passing 100%, students getting good average grades, and students being accepted into universities in the world. business and industry. To maintain all that has been obtained, the school principal must find a solution so that the quality of the graduates can be maintained. For this reason, school principals are looking for strategies that can be used as a reason to maintain the good quality of graduates. This research is descriptive qualitative research and took place at the Insan Scholar Islamic Vocational School. The subjects in this research were the principal, deputy head, teacher at the Insan Scholar Islamic Vocational School. The data collection techniques used are observation, interviews, and documentation and the data analysis techniques used are interactive models. To check the validity of the data, researchers used triangulation.

The research results show that the principal's strategy in improving the quality of graduates at Insan Scholar Islamic Vocational School is: 1) Strategy for recruiting new students, 2) increasing teacher competency. 3) improving facilities and infrastructure, 4) developing the curriculum, 5) programs for developing students' potential, interests and talents.