Abstract

The teacher is a professional educator who plays an important role in developing students' self potentials, character building and creating a positive nation civilization in order to educate the nation's life. The character of the Indonesian nation which still tends to be negative nowadays causes moral bankruptcy, acts of violence, high personal egoism, the extent of various conflicts and social pleasures in society. Thus, teachers really need to have the self efficacy that they are able to educate and develop the character education of their students in order to create a dignified generation of the nation. Teacher’s efficacy affects academic achievement, and student learning motivation, teacher teaching quality, teacher psychological well-being, teacher achievement, job satisfaction, and teacher work commitment. This study aims to answer the question of how the influence of age, experience and religiosity on the teaching efficacy of teachers in developing students' SAFT character education. This study uses descroptive quantitative method. Respondents involved 739 teachers of SDIT in North Sumatra Province. They were asked to fill in questionnaires about age range and experience, religiosity scale and teacher efficacy scale in developing student character education via online. This study found that age and teaching experience did not significantly influence teacher efficacy. However, religiosity have shown to significantly influence teacher efficacy. Implications in this study will be discussed further

Key words: character education, experience, religiosity, teacher’s efficacy, elementary school