The Act of the Republic of Indonesia No. 14/2005 on Teachers and Lecturers call for 4 teacher competencies, They are: pedagogical, personality, social, and professional. Those four components of the professional competences for teachers; simultaneously, competence variable determines the quality of teacher performance. These will be critical issues for the teachers because not all teachers have these competencies. So, the purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of professional competence variables on teacher performance. It is expected that the finding of research can be used to make up curriculum of teacher education. The approach used is a embedded model for personal competence variable that serves to support the findings of a quantitative approach to the ex-post facto design. Number of samples is 76 teachers (50%) of the population in Malang. Analysis of data was done by using multiple regression techniques and sequential analysis of data.The findings of the study show that the pedagogical, professional and personality competences have significant effect on the teachers' performance, while, social competence have no significant effect. Personality competence, based on the interviews, show that teachers, initially, have no interest for being a teacher, but they got interested and fun as the time goes by, so they perform well, it means that qualitative finding supports the quantitative approach findings. Lastly, the recommendations for the research findings is that the selection of recommended recruitment of teachers should be layered, so that the job as a teacher will come from individual's heart/soul that means a personality from the beginning.