Pengembangan karakter harus dilakukan sedini mungkin karena usia dini merupakan masa emas dalam  pengembangan karakter. Salah satu teknik dalam peningkatan karakter adalah dengan pemberian penguatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan karakter tanggung jawab anak melalui teknik pemberian penguatan baik secara verbal maupun nonverbal dengan cara pemberian pujian dan hadiah kepada anak. Metode yang digunakan adalah penelitian tindakan kelas menggunakan pola Kemmis Taggart dengan dua siklus. Subjek penelitian adalah 22 anak usia 5-6 di TK B TK Dharma Wanita I Pojoksari, Magetan, yaitu 12 anak laki-laki dan 10 anak perempuan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat peningkatan karakter anak usia 5-6 tahun setelah mendapatkan penguatan dari guru. Performa karakter tanggung jawab anak meningkat sebesar 56,8% pada akhir siklus 1 dan 93,2% pada akhir siklus 2, dari data awal sebelum tindakan sebesar 37,5%. Performa karakter bertangggung jawab ini ditunjukkan anak dalam empat aspek yaitu: mau mengambil alat main tanpa dibantu, melaksanakan tugas dengan gembira, menyelesaikan tugas yang diberikan guru, dan mengembalikan peralatan main ke tempatnya.

This study aimed at obtaining an overview of demographic data (education and employment) of the parents of kindergarten children, the parental involvement in the kindergarten activities and in educating their children at home. As an exploratory research with descriptive analysis, the study was conducted in the school year of 2013/2014 in Pamulang and Serpong, Sub District of South Tangerang, Banten, where 238 parents were participaed as the subjects of the research. The finding of the research showed, in terms of education and employment many parents are potential enough to take part in child care. The involvement of both parents both in the kindergarten and at home is pretty good, but needs to be improved, especially in educating their children at home everyday to be independent. The parents are also needed to persuade to be volunteers in the kindergarten. Therefore, further research is recommended to identify appropriate strategies to make the parents more involved in their children’s education.

Abstract-The purpose of this study is to see the involvement of parents of early childhood in familiarizing children to take care of themselves during at home. The method used in this research is explorative study with descriptive analysis. The research was conducted in February of 2016. The research place was in South Tangerang, Indonesia. The research subjects were 30 mothers of children with 5-6 years old who joined in Pos PAUD. The results show that in general parental involvement in improving children's independence is good enough but still needs to be improved in terms of training children to eat without feeding, making simple food and drink, and clean up the cutlery. Therefore the Pos PAUD as non-formal institution of early childhood education needs to think about the appropriate engagement strategy for parental involvement during at home is more optimal.

Guru merupakan kunci keberhasilan dari sebuah pendidikan sehingga dituntut dapat meningkatkan kompetensinya melalui penggunaan teknologi. tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan kinerja dan keterampilan terhadap hasil belajar dan literasi digital siswa. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan survei korelasional. Responden pada penelitian ini terdiri dari 53 orang data dianalisis menggunakan analisis korelasi sederhana untuk melihat hubungan secara parsial dan korelasi berganda untuk melihat hubungan secara berganda menggunakan aplikasi SPSS. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya hubungan yang positif antara kinerja guru dengan hasil belajar siswa dengan koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,971. Terdapat hubungan positif antara keterampilan tik guru dengan hasil belajar siswa dengan koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,996. Terdapat hubungan positif antara kinerja guru dengan literasi digital siswa dengan besar korelasi 0,6 34. Terdapat hubungan positif antara keterampilan tik guru terhadap literasi digital siswa dengan besar korelasi 0,804. Terdapat hubungan positif antara kinerja dan keterampilan tik guru terhadap hasil kerja siswa dengan besar koefisien korelasi ganda sebesar 0,982. Terdapat hubungan positif antara kinerja dan keterampilan tik guru terhadap literasi digital siswa dengan koefisien relasi ganda sebesar 0,807. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah seorang guru harus mampu dalam meningkatkan keterampilan tik dan literasi digital untuk meminimalisir kekurangan dalam pelaksanaan pembelajaran.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the world of education and universities, including the Open University’s Early Childhood Education study program. Because the number of students taking this course is very large at all levels, at the beginning of the pandemic, there were problems in the online learning media courses and kindergarten learning resources. It was recognized that there was a need to create a forum in the Early Childhood Education study program, namely a virtual learning laboratory program for the pandemic and post-pandemic period. It was identified that this program should use virtual reality, so that students can surf the lab in cyberspace as if they were there, with media and learning resources that are adapted to the culture of the Indonesian people and others, so that students are more independent in their learning. The ADDIE R&D model was used in this study (analysis, design, develop, implementation and evaluation). The needs were first analyzed and then the virtual reality lab product was developed, which included media for kindergarten courses and other learning resources, especially about educational game tools. This was validated by learning material experts and learning media experts with scores of 91 and 94, respectively. Keywords: design, virtual laboratory, virtual reality, independent learning