The Innovation of Teaching Materials Based on Local Wisdom for Disaster Mitigation Subject

Abstract

<p><em>Teaching material is one of the learning components </em><em>that </em><em>used to </em><em>assist the</em><em> students understand a material. To fulfill this function, at least the material provided is relevant to the </em><em>students’ </em><em>daily life. Therefore, it is necessary to develop teaching material that meet</em><em>s the concept of</em><em> contextual learning. Th</em><em>e purpose of this</em><em> research </em><em>was </em><em>to produce teaching materials that are suitable </em><em>to be used</em><em> by developing a base of local wisdom. Local </em><em>wisdom </em><em>were chosen </em><em>due to</em><em> they are related to the concept of disaster mitigation, and are close to the </em><em>students’ </em><em>daily </em><em>life</em><em>. </em><em>R</em><em>esearch method use</em><em>d</em><em> the Borg & Gall stage which </em><em>was</em><em> then adapted into, (1) </em><em>collecting information</em><em> and need analysis</em><em>;</em><em> (2) planning</em><em>;</em><em> (3) teaching material development</em><em>;</em><em> (4) prototype testing</em><em>;</em><em> (5) prototype revision</em><em>;</em><em> (6) model testing</em><em>;</em><em> (7) model revision. Through this stage, research product in the form of teaching materials </em><em>was</em><em> assessed for its feasibility by several experts and </em><em>also </em><em>tested on students as users. </em><em>P</em><em>roduct is targeted to g</em><em>ain</em><em> a positive response from users with an average score above </em><em>7</em><em>0% which indicates that it is quite feasible to </em><em>be implemented in</em><em> learning, so that it may be an alternative as a learning resource besides using other textbooks.</em></p>