The goal of this community activity is to encourage teachers in the 60 Buton state elementary education unit, which is located in East Lambusango Village, Kapontori District, Buton Regency, to increase their understanding about classroom action research and to realize professionalism. This activity method involves giving presentations, engaging in question-and-answer sessions, taking direction on creating classroom action research proposals, and getting mentoring on proposal preparation. The event took place in public room of the elementary school state 60 Buton. The program's outcomes demonstrate that, in general, the execution of training activities up to mentoring goes without a hitch. Through the use of draft proposals created by teachers who participated in the training, it was determined that the training activities had increased the knowledge of teachers on classroom action research. Additionally, the response from the participants was quite encouraging; they appeared to be very passionate about taking part in the training session, and they expressed a wish that this activity would continue on a constant schedule.

This study aimed to reduce procrastination in eighth grade students at Junior High School 7 Baubau through group behavioral counseling using assertive techniques. A one group pre-test/post-test design was used. Based on the descriptive analysis results, students’ procrastination before treatment was categorized as ‘high’ with an average score of 70.43%; after treatment, the average score was 31.92%, which was classified as ‘low’; this difference was significant (p = 0.012). From these results, it can be concluded that group behavioral counseling using assertive techniques can reduce academic procrastination in eighth grade students. It is hoped that these results can be used to help guidance and counseling teachers to carry out services to reduce procrastinaton in students. Keywords: academic procrastination, group counseling, behavioral, assertive

The Covid-19 situation has a major impact on all elements of life, including education. The learning process changes, from face-to-face in class to virtual face-to-face. In addition, the approach taken has also changed. Similar to learning English in elementary schools, the application of the group counseling approach is to maintain and increase the self-confidence of elementary school students in learning English during the Covid-19 pandemic situation so that it stays true. To find out the perspective both of students and parents about the group counseling approach to increase students' confidence in learning English during the Covid-19. This research used qualitative methodology within a case study design. This research shows that the students have positive attitudes towards the use of a group counseling approach to increase students' confidence in learning English during the Covid-19 pandemic. The implication of this research is to provide student's perception into the use of group counseling approach to increase students' confidence in learning English during the Covid-19 pandemic in the primary education setting, the findings of this study offer several recommendations for Indonesian policymakers and future researchers.