Keberhasilan seorang pendidik dalam melaksanakan pembelajaran salah satunya dipengaruhi oleh faktor penguasaan teori belajar oleh si pendidik. Oleh karenanya seorang pendidik hendaknya perlu mengerti dan memahami serta memiliki pengetahuan tentang teori belajar sehingga kelak dapat mengaplikasikannya ketika pendidik melaksanakan pembelajaran di sekolah. Tujuan disusunnya makalah ini ialah untuk mengenal dan mengetahui apa itu teori belajar kognitif dan konstruktivisme. Setelah mengetahui kedua teori tersebut penulis akan menarik keterkaitan penggunaan teori tersebut dengan pembelajaran yang dilakukan ditingkat sekolah dasar atau madrasah ibtidaiyah. Dalam penulisan ini, menggunakan metode penelitian kajian kepustakan dari berbagai sumber. Cara pengumpulan data yang dilakukan pada kepenulisan ini dilaksanakan melalui telaah terhadap berbagai buku, literatur, dan laporan berkaitan dengan kedua teori tersebut.

This study focuses on the concept of Ki Hajar Dewantara's thinking for its relevance to education in Mi at this time. MI. Practically, this research is expected to provide clarity on the concept of education according to Ki Hajar Dewantara, thus providing a bright spot on its relevance to education at MI today, and can contribute to finding solutions to the problems that are being faced by the Indonesian nation. This research is a qualitative research with the type of library research, namely exploring Ki Hajar Dewantara's thoughts on education. The data collection technique that the author uses is to collect books, journals and others related to the subject matter. The data that has been collected was analyzed using descriptive methods, namely research methods that seek to reveal the facts of an event, object, activity, and process. The results of this study indicate that Ki Hajar's educational concept is still relevant today. Judging from his thoughts in accordance with the concepts that are still being implemented, namely education and teaching which is a deliberate effort to liberate the outer and inner aspects of humans.

Early childhood education as the main foundation of one's education is determined by the quality of teachers who can be seen through the performance of teachers and teachers, so the discourse of professional development is important. This study aims to determine how the performance of superior early childhood teachers and performance measurement as performance standards for outstanding teachers. Qualitative research is carried out with a psychological approach that is carried out directly on the object under study, to obtain data relating to aspects of teacher performance so that increased performance becomes an example for other teachers. Research data collection techniques using interviews, documentation, and observation. The results showed that the performance of outstanding early childhood teachers always tried to hone and control themselves by participating in outstanding teacher competitions to monitor their professional condition and performance. Early childhood teachers who have extraordinary grades also have strong scientific insight, understand learning, have broad social insights, are positive about their work, and show work performance according to the required performance criteria. The teacher's performance in the extraordinary category is the success and ability of the teacher in carrying out various learning tasks. Measuring the performance of early childhood teachers with achievement has two tasks as measurement standards, tasks related to the learning process and tasks related to structuring and planning learning tasks. Referring to these two tasks, there are three main criteria related to teacher performance in early childhood teacher professional development literacy, namely processes, teacher characteristics, and outcomes or products (changes in student attitudes). 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