Active Learning to Improve Fifth Grade Mathematics Achievement in Banten

Abstract

Teaching for active learning is a pedagogical technique that has been actively promoted in Indonesian education through government reform efforts and international development assistance projects for decades. Recently, elementary schools in Banten province received training in active learning instructional strategies from the USAID-funded project, Decentralized Basic Education 2. Post-training evaluations conducted by lecturers from the University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (UNTIRTA: Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa) suggested that teachers were successfully employing active learning strategies in some subjects, but not mathematics. In order to understand the difficulties teachers were having in teaching for active learning in mathematics, and to assist them in using active learning strategies, a team of lecturers from UNTIRTA designed and carried out an action research project to train teachers in an elementary school in the city of Cilegon to use a technique called Magic Fingers in teaching Grade 5 multiplication. During the course of the project the research team discovered that teachers were having problems transferring knowledge gained from training in one context and subject to other school subjects and contexts. AbstrakModel pembelajaran aktif atau active learning merupakan metode pedagogik yang sering dipromosikan di Indonesia melalui program perbaikan mutu oleh pemerintah dan proyek pendampingan oleh lembaga internasional. Baru-baru ini, beberapa sekolah dasar di Propinsi Banten mengikuti pelatihan strategi pengajaran active learning melalui proyek bantuan USAID, Decentralized Basic Education 2. Evaluasi paska pelatihan, yang dilaksanakan oleh para dosen dari Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (UNTIRTA), menilai bahwa para guru telah sukses mengintegrasikan strategi active learning pada beberapa mata pelajaran atau mapel, kecuali Matematika. Guna memahami kesulitan para guru menerapkan active learning di kelas Matematika, dan membantu guru di sekolah dasar di Cilegon menerapkan strategi pengajaran ini, maka tim dosen UNTIRTA mendesain dan melakukan penelitian tindakan kelas, yang bertujuan agar guru berlatih mengaplikasikan teknik Magic Fingers untuk materi perkalian di kelas 5. Tim menyimpulkan, para guru kesulitan dalam mentransfer konsep active learning dari mapel dan konteks yang dipelajari selama pelatihan ke mapel lain dan konteks sekolah masing-masing.

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