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Technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) is one of the smart solutions for implementing learning in accordance with the demands of education by integrating technology. The purpose of the study was to analyze the competency level of counselors in Indonesia in terms of age in terms of age, gender, and level of education. The research design used a cross-sectional survey in a non-experimental quantitative study. Respondents in this study amounted to 420 counselors in Indonesia obtained by using a proportional random sampling technique. Data were collected by questionnaire technological pedagogy content knowledge test for counselors (TPACK-TFC). The results of the study found that the TPACK was owned by counselors with an average score of 46.78 in the low category. Judging from the aspect of technology knowledge (TK), a score of 59.88 was obtained in the medium category, content knowledge (CK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), technological content knowledge (TCK), technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) was at a relatively low level. The results showed that Indonesian counselors have not fully integrated learning models using aspects namely technology, pedagogy, and content, and need to get attention from the government, higher education institutions, and the community for the development of quality guidance and counseling services and counselor careers in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaboration competence is a competence that needs to be mastered by every guidance and counseling teacher. It functions as a means of supporting the provision of guidance and counseling services at a school. Further, interdisciplinary collaboration is partnership cooperation in a team that involves professionals from various fields of science. It is done through coordination and collaboration for the sake of having the best decision-making in an effort of developing programs. This study attempted to determine the level of guidance and counseling teachers' interdisciplinary collaboration competence viewed from gender, age, and educational levels. In terms of methods, the current study used the scale of the Index of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (IIC) designed by (Bronstein, 2002). A total of 1161 guidance and counseling teachers throughout Indonesia were selected as respondents. Their data were analyzed using a descriptive analysis technique. Based on the findings, it is concluded that the overall level of guidance and counseling teachers' collaboration competence is low. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Breast milk is really beneficial for baby's nerves and brain system development so it can be optimal and it can decrease infection risk. This is not directly proportional with exclusive breastfeeding coverage score in Indonesia, which reached 42% and it is still below of WHO standard one of factors which affects the succeed of giving breast milk was an availability of counselor in Health Service Facility. The objective of the research is to know how deep the beneficial of breastfeeding counseling through 7 counselor contacts based on WHO standard onto mothers and family, especially in increasing breastfeeding coverage score. The research methodology used was quasi experiment. The subject of the research was pregnant women up to the phase of breastfeeding in Health Facility at the First Level in Tangerang. The used sampling technique was purposive sampling. The amount of sample was 30 mothers. The statistical analysis used was t-test paired test. The result shows that all of the samples who got treatment of having 7 counselor contacts reached 100% of breastfeeding until it last to the end. Meanwhile, t test result of counselor contacts with baby's weight was having average differences of newly born baby's weight and in the day 1-3, it was proved with significance score 0,000. The average score of baby's weight who were newly born got 3, 16 kg and in the day of 1-3, got 3, 08kg, means decreased. However, for the t-test paired test, the baby's weight in the day of 1-3, day of 7, day of 14 and day of 40, had average differences with significance score 0,000. The average score of baby's weight in the day of 1-3, in the day of 7, in the day of 14, and in the day of 40 got increased. It can be concluded that the implementation of 7 counselor contacts of breastfeeding based on WHO standard was effective to increase exclusive breastfeeding coverage score and increase baby's weight in Health Facility at the First Level. This research is supposed to be implemented in all of Health Facilities at the First Level, so the score of exclusive breastfeeding coverage increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]