PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR CHARACTER OF PEDAGOGICAL STUDENT IN MEDAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Medan State Univenity has a motto, The Character Building University, the only one university had been implementing science education and producing educators in Indonesia. This research was purposed to know the level of actual professional educator character reached by pedagogical student, Medan State university and to know its gap from ideal professional educator character. This research was descriptively using research subjects from seven faculties, 18 departments/study programs, 670 students. The research findings showed that actual professional educator character reached by student included good, with gap from ideal professional educator character included low. However, to the dimension of basic character, attainment level of actual professional character included low and its gap from ideal professional educator character included high. To the dimension of supporting and main character, attainment level of actual professional character included high, and its gap from ideal professional educator character included low.