International Conference on Education (IECO) FKIP UNMUH JEMBER
International Conference on Education (IECO) Proceeding, 2016. Proceedings Innovative Teaching Practices In Global Era: Teacher's Challenge Or Chance Vol. 1, July 2016, P. 206-214 Copyright ©2016 ISBN: 978-602-6988-21-8
DESIGNING LANGUAGE CLASSROOM TO EMERGE STUDENTS’ BETTER ATTITUDES: SOCIAL-AWARENESS, SELF-CONFIDENCE, AND PRIDE
Education is a process to build one’s character. However, most of language lecturers commonly focus their instructions on the teaching method/technique to teach language skills. In fact, character building still becomes an “unconsidered” aspect in practice. Consequently, the teaching of language is not providing knowledge of life, but only knowledge of the language rule. Shortly, the teaching of character in language classroom remains “untouched”. To face ASEAN Economic Community, certain attitudes are indisputably needed to support the condition. This paper attempts to discuss how language classroom is designed to facilitate students emerge their better attitudes. Three kinds of attitudes: social awareness, self-confidence, and pride will be discussed deeply and the way to emerge the attitudes will be explored and elaborated comprehensively.
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SUPER (a; d)-EDGE ANTIMAGIC TOTAL LABELING OF CONNECTED SUNFLOWERS GRAPH
A graph𝐺 of order 𝑝 and size 𝑞 is called an(𝑎,𝑑)-edge-antimagic if there exist a bijection 𝑓 ∶ 𝑉(𝐺) ∪ 𝐸(𝐺) → {1,2,…,𝑝 + 𝑞}such that the edge-weights𝑤(𝑢𝑣) = 𝑓(𝑢) + 𝑓(𝑣) + 𝑓(𝑢𝑣), 𝑢𝑣 ∈ 𝐸(𝐺), form an arithmetic sequence with first term term 𝑎 and common difference𝑑. Such a graph𝐺is called super if the smallest possible appear on the vertex labels. In this paper, we study super(𝑎,𝑑)-edgeantimagic total labeling connected properties of Sunflowers. The result shows that Sunflowers Graph admit a super edge antimagic total labeling for 𝑑 ∈ 0,1,2. Keywords: super (𝑎,𝑑)-edge-antimagic total labeling, Sunflowers
Whiteboard is one of the media to illustrate knowledge to the student. However, whiteboard only seen by teachers and students in the same room, but learning system has evolved into distance learning. Media learning technology developed to improve the quality of students' absorption. To help distance learning we develop virtual board and expected of teachers and students who are in distance learning can see the same whiteboard This virtual board developed using soft ware development methods. We develop as teachers and students culturally appropriate in the use of whiteboards in the classroom. We purpose the no distance problem bet ween teachers and student and learning process can be held as in the same room. This virtual board called the Virtual Webboard. Virtual Webboard developed a web-based so it can be accessed from anywhere at any time. Many features accessible in virtual webboard.Virtual Webboard editing features facilitate with write, typing, drawing, erase, select font, select pen. To the more advance use of virtual board is equipped with chat features and sharing the graffiti boards to social media. Key Words: distance learning, whiteboard, webboard
PROFILE OF MENTAL COMPUTATION OF ELEMENTARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHER ACCORDING TO REFLECTIVE-IMPULSIVE COGNITIVE STYLE
The purpose of this study was to describe mental computation ability of elementary pre-service teacher with reflective-impulsive cognitive style. Twentyeight juniors in Jember University participated in this study. All of the juniors were tested on Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT). Two juniors were chosen, based the test result, as subjects of the research. They were classified as a junior with reflective cognitive style and a junior with impulsive cognitive style. The subjects were tested in an oral mental computation test. The test contains 4 items for additions, subtractions, multiplications, and divisions in whole numbers. Findings were analyzed with qualitative methods. At the end of the research, a subject with impulsive cognitive style showed a better result than reflective cognitive style. When computation strategies were analyzed, it was found that a subject with reflective cognitive style used standard method that were heavily influenced by written algorithm and only had one strategy to answer the problem, meanwhile impulsive subject used non standard method without reformulation and gave alternate strategy to answer the problem. Despite of that, the alternate strategy used by impulsive subject were influenced by written algorithm. Keywords: mental computation, computation strategies, juniors, cognitive styles.
THE STUDY OF BASIL FLOWER ATTRACTANT (OCIMUM BASILICUM) TOWARDS FRUIT FLIES AS BIOLOGY LEARNING RESOURCE IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Biotechnology is one of the Biology subject at the vocational school (SMK) in the field of Agribusiness and Agrotechnology program. In contrast, the fact indicates that these topics are taught by lecturing method and the teachers only used student’s handbook as the learning resources. Moreover, teachers are seldom using current research as learning resources. One of them is the Basil flower (Ocimum basilicum). This qualitative descriptive study is aimed to analyze the potential of the attractant compound Basil flower as a learning resource for Biotechnology subject in SMK. The curriculum analysis is done by adjusting the process and research product with the core curriculum standards in 2013. Based on the analysis of processes and products (facts, concepts, principles and procedures) study, the results of the research on attractant compound Basil flower (Ocimum basilicum) toward fruit flies can be used as a Biology learning resource of 11th grade at KD. 3.6 Curriculum 2013 SMK. Keywords: Attractant, basil flower (Ocimum basilicum), learning resource
TEACHERS’ ADOPTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMICS INSTRUCTION
This research has been meant to (1) describe the adoption of ICT in economics instruction, (2) discover the influence of the characteristics of innovation variables to the adoption of ICT, (3) discover the influence of the environment variables to the adoption of ICT in econo mics instruction, (4) discover the influence of the affective variable to the adoption of ICT in economics instruction, and (5) discover the influence of the demographic variables to the adoption of ICT in economics instruction. This research employed the combination of the quantitative and qualitative approaches known as the mixed method. The qualitative data were results of interviews with economics teachers, economics instruction supervisors, students, school principals, and on-service-teacher trainers. The qualitative data were analyzed qualitatively through the steps of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The research results showed the following conclusions. First, most teachers often employed information and communication technology in economics instruction. Second, the ICT adoption models which contain the innovation characteristics variable, the environment variable, the affect -towards-use variable, and the demographic variable worked well in explaining the diversity of the ad option in economics instruction. Third, the variables in the group of characteristics of innovation variable which had significant influence to the adoption of ICT were voluntariness, relative advantage, result demonstrability, and ease of use. Meanwhile, those which did not have significant influence were those of compatibility, image, trialability, and visibility. Fourth, all variables in the group of environment variable which consisted of social influence facilitating conditions had significant influence to the adoption of ICT in economics instruction. Fifth, the variable of affect toward use consisted of the feeling of liking and the feeling of interest had significant influence to the adoption of ICT in economics instruction. Sixth, the group of demographic variable was not good predictors in relation to the adoption of ICT in economics instruction. None of the five sub-variables in the demographic variable, which consisted of school status, age, gender, experience and duration in training participation, had any significant influence in the adoption of ICT in economics instruction. Keywords: adoption, information and communication technology (ICT), teachers, economics instruction innovation
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH WRITTEN FEEDBACK
This research was conducted to solve the problem faced by second language learners (L2), especially in writing since it has been a big problem which puts students into trouble as shown by errors made in organizing the composition and the language. The problem is stated as how the implementation of written feedback can improve the tenth grade students’ writing ability. The objective of this research is to find out written feedback can improve the Tenth Grade Students’ Writing Ability at MA Ma’arif NU Kencong in the 2015-2015 Academic Year”. This research was Classroom Action Research. The data was taken from observation and test and was analyzed using formula M = ΣX/N. The result showed that written feedback improves the students’ writing ability both the score and the active participation by giving valuable feedback in the form of symbol and abbreviation, and they can independently revise their writing from the feedback given by the teacher. It could help to remind the students’ errors that had been made when they are writing . Keywords: Writing ability, written feedback
SUPPORTING EDUCATORS TO FURTHER DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ WRITING THROUGH TALK FOR WRITING APPROACH
It is a must for educators to overcome several problems dealing with teaching writing. We have to consider the students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). They are not as good as the native speakers in writing and are not as fluently as the native speaker in speaking. Thus, the educators must scaffold the learners. Moreover, educators must provide the material and prepare the classroom to make the learners absorb the material. This research attempt to find out how Talk for Writing approach can support educators in developing students’ writing in junior high school level. Teacher can come up with daily oral retelling, asking the learners to read the example, guiding them to make temporary writing, and finally, giving them opportunity to set up the permanent writing. The educator’s role is as the facilitator and motivator. By doing so, the learners will learn step by step and learn several skills as well. Keywords: Talk for writing approach, teaching writing, and scaffold.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING THE POWER OF TWO STRATEGY
Writing is one of important skills that need long process to construct sentences and ideas. But students still get problem in writing, therefore it is important to do the research entitled “Improving the Students’ Skill in writing Descriptive Text by Using the Power of Two Strategy” In this research, the aim is to find out how the use of The Power of Two strategy can improve students’ descriptive writing ability. The kind of the research was CAR. The subject of the research was VIII F class. To obtain the research data, test and observation were used The result showed that the students’ average score in cycle one was 78 while in cycle two was 83. Beside 69.17% of the students were active in cycle one and 88.45% in cycle two. Based on the result it can be concluded that the use of The Power of Two strategy can improve the students’ descriptive writing ability at SMPN 1 Jambesari Darussholah in 2015/2016 academic year. Key words: Writing ability, the Power of Two
IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING ROLE PLAY AT SEVENTH GRADE OF DARUL MAHDEEYAH, THAILAND
Many students find speaking as one of the most difficult skills in English. Therefore, the researcher wants to improve the students’ speaking ability through the suitable teaching method, in this case is Role Play. The problem in this research is “how can the use of role play improve students’ speaking ability of the seventh grade students of Darul Mahdeeyah Private School Songkhla Thailand in the 2015/2016 academic year?” And the objective of this research is to find out how role play can improve the English speaking ability of the seventh grade students of Darul Mahdeeyah Private School Songkhla Thailand in 2015/2016 academic year. Based on the research problem and the relevant theory, the hypothesis of this research is d escribed as follows: Role Play can improve the seventh grade students’ speaking ability at Darul Mahdeeyah Private School Songkhla Thailand in the 2015/2016 Academic Year because by using role play method, students become more active in participating the class. The design of this research is classroom action research. The research subject is seventh grade students that consisting of 16 students. Test and observation are used to obtain the data. Role Play method improves the students’ speaking ability in two cycles. The difference in each cycle is the researcher gives dialog to the students and teaches new vocabulary and how to pronounce words properly. It can be concluded that Role Play is able to improve the students’ speaking ability and students’ activeness in participating the class. Key Words: Speaking Ability, Role Play.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION BY USING DICTOGLOSS TECHNIQUE AT DARUL QUR’ANILKARIIM SCHOOL NARATHIWAT- SOUTH THAILAND
This study aims at finding out how the use of Dictogloss Technique improves Thai students’ listening comprehension. This is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted in DarulQur'anilkariim Narathiwat-South Thailand. The subjects of the study are Thai students of class 6/1 at the school.The implementation of the technique was by building background knowledge about the text to be studied, then introducing some new vocabulary related to the text, dictating the material, and giving students time to record important matters when dictated.The data were collected from listening comprehension tests and were analyzed by using a qualitative approach. The result of the students’ listening comprehension improvement was as follows; the percentage of the students achieving the target score was 55% in the first cycle, and was improved into 75% in the second one.This leads to the conclusion that the students’ improved listening comprehension was because Dictogloss combines top-down and bottom-up processing which is appropriate with the students’ need. Key words : Dictogloss Technique, Listening Comprehension.
Hujjatul Islamiyah, Kuni Hikmah Hidayati
IMPROVING THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING STAD AT SMKN 5 JEMBER
Speaking is important because it reflects to the student knowledge about English. Based on the result of preliminary study, most of them have problems with confidentiality, because they still have low competence in English speaking. Therefore, it is necessary to apply the STAD method to be taught in speaking class, because STAD can solve the students’ problem that is problem from themselves. Also, STAD helps students from their social life and relationships with others. STAD is one of method in cooperative learning that consist of five components in implementing the method, those are class presentation, team, quiz, individual progress score and team recognition. The problem of this research is how can Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) improve tenth grade students’ speaking ability at SMKN 5 Jember in 2015-2016 Academic Year?, while the objective is to find out how STAD method can improve the speaking ability of the tenth grade students of SMKN 5 Jember. In cycle 1, the percentage of students who could achieve the standard minimum score 70 is 51% and in cycle 2, the students who achieve the minimum standard score 70 is 82%. Based on the research result, it can be concluded that STAD can improve the students’ speaking ability at SMKN 5 Jember by dividing the students into group that consist of 4-5 member, it represented the education level in each group and discussing with their group. The leader or the smartest of each group helped the member who had difficulties in some part of English speaking. Key Words: Speaking ability, Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD)
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SIMPLE TENSES MASTERY BY USING ENGLISH SONG AT MA NURUT TAQWA CERME
Simple tense is one of the essential skills that should be mastered by the students. The skill deals with knowing how to form sentence and use it in an appropriate way. In teaching and learning simple tenses process, the students are usually confused of rules. The students sometimes get bored in teaching and learning process employed by the teacher in teaching simple tenses. As a result, a lot of students have low scores on English caused by the failure in mastering simple tenses. One of the solutions to improve students’ simple tenses mastery is by using English song. It helps them to give motivation in learning English and memorizing the grammatical point through repetition of words in the song. The research intended “To improve students’ simple tenses mastery at MA Nurut Taqwa Cerme Bondowoso. The design of the research was Classroom Action Research. The research covered four stages of activities, they were planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The research subject was XI IPA class because their simple tenses scores were still low. The class consisted of 23 students. Test and observation used to collect the data. The result of the score analysis was, the percentage of students who got score >70 was 45% in the first cycle. It means that the score of cycle one did not achieve the criteria of success. Therefore, it was necessary to continue the action into cycle two with some modification in implementing the action. The result of writing test in second cycle was 78% of the students could achieve the target score. It was not necessary to continue the action into next cycle because more than 70% students could achieve the target score. To sum up, the use of English song could improve students’ simple tenses mastery at MA Nurut Taqwa Cerme Bondowoso by filling the blank spaces with the correct to-be and verbs form. Key words: Simple tenses Mastery, English Song
A GUIDED INQUIRY APPROACH-BASED PHYSICS PRACTICE MODEL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING SKILL
This study aims to develop a guided inquiry approach-based physics practice model to improve students' critical thinking skills. This study refers to the research and development procedure model (R & D) by Borg and Gall. This study employs four phases namely specification, operationalisation, piloting, and revision. To get appropriate model, a try out was done based on five factors or steps which comprise (1) design, (2) subject of try out (research) (3) type of try out data, (4) instrumentt of data collection, and (5) technique of data analysis. The subjects of try out were 32 students which ware taken from the tenth grade student’s of MAN 2 Mataram. The techniques of data collection in this study were validation sheets, observation sheets, questionnaires and tests, while the technique of data analysis using quantitative descriptive analysis. The model of being developed was analyzed by three (3) aspects, namely: validity, effectiveness, and practicality. The results of the validation of experts at 3.7 with a reliability of 96%, showing the developed model is valid. Based on the first trial, the implementation syntax developed model of the observer ratings obtained 97% done, it shows a model developed was practical. For N-Gain Student critical thinking skills after attending the learning physics practice models based guided inquiry 0.64 with moderate category, it demonstrates effective models developed for improving critical thinking skills. Based on the above results it can be concluded that the physics practice models based guided inquiry with a decent category. Keywords: Physics Practicum Model Based Guided Inquiry, Critical Thinking Skills.
MEDIA EXHIBITION IN THE BIOLOGICAL LEARNING PROCESS TO IMPROVE THE SCIENTIFIC SKILLS, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Biology has developed very rapidly in the XXI century and affect various aspects of human life. The biologicalprogress from time to time growing in terms biofunction, biodevelopment, bioenvironment, biotechnology, biomanagement and bioethic, which also carries a different direction of the biology education. Therefore, it is not wrong Naisbitt and Aburdene opinion of the XXI century as the century of biology. Change the position of biology is clearly a challenge for biologists and biology educators. To address these challenges, need to be prepared prospective teachers who excel and be able to compete , to have science process skills and innovative and creativity. Learning science especially biology are less likely to develop process skills, as a result of students being passive, boring and became less interested to learn in the end. Therefore, it is necessary for innovative efforts in order to study biology can go further to provide opportunities for students to be able to do science process skills. Media exhibition in learning biology is a public event that showcases real and student performance. The activity aims to apply science - biology products (concepts of biology, the process of science, (science process skills), as well as the scientific attitude. Through this exhibition is expected to develop various aspects of independence, creativity and innovative, producing and communicating the real work. From the study above, the idea of the exhibition media in learning biology is a focus on the exposure of this article. Key Words: scientific process skills, creativity, innovation, media exhibition, biology learning
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING BASED ON NEWMAN’S ERROR ANALYSIS PROCEDURES IN MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II COURSE
The present study focuses on describing the undergraduate students’ error in solving mathematical word problems through the implementation of the cooperative learning based on Newman’s Error Analysis procedures. The subject of this research is second-year Mathematics Education students (students of class 4A). According to the aims, the type of the research is a classroom action research whose each cycle consists of four phases: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The action is held through the implementation of the cooperative learning based on Newman’s Error Analysis procedures which included five phases that were reading, comprehension, transformation, process skills, and encoding. The research is done in one cycle as the time limitation of the research then the researcher can’t continue to the next cycle. The collected data shows that the students’ errors in solving mathematical problems based on the Newman’s Error Analysis phases are encoding as much as 32.5%, process skills stands on 26.2%, transformation for 20.8%, comprehension as 12.6%, and reading as 7.9%. The other result is the average of students’ final score is 75.73 yet only 65.38% students who pass the minimum score, 65. Key Words: Cooperative Learning, Newman Error Analysis, Word Problems, Statistics
SCIENCE WRITING TEST DEVELOPMENT FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The study was aimed to develop a writing test in science based on the concepts of science in Junior High School. The research was a part of learning development to improve writing skills in science. Test adapted and adjusted from written expression in science developed by Wang, et al (2011). The components of this written test in science consisted understanding science vocabulary, identifying a problem to be investigated, providing evidence in responding to the question, drawing evidence -based explanations. Assessment of the test was carried out through expert validation and test the sensitivity of the test. The results of the expert assessment showed decent test used with some revisions. While the overall sensitivity of the tests included in the sensitive category with average numerical value sensitivity is 0, 57. If the terms of each indicator successive test values numerical sensitivity were 0.40, 0.66, 0.47 and 0,75. Key Words: writing in science test, Concept Heat, and Junior High School
THE NON-FORMAL PEACE EDUCATION IN THE STREET: EXPERIENCE OF HABAL-HABAL DRIVERS IN COTABATO CITY, PHILIPPINES
The study was aimed to address the issue of lowlevelof educationin Cotabato City specifically thehabal-habal drivers whenthey are performingtheir occupation in Cotabato City. The study utilized both qualitative and quantitative design. The respondents of the study were the habal-habal drivers inCotabato City, Philippines. Interview guide questionnaire which is composed of four parts to elicit responses from the respondents. In the collection of data, purposive sampling technique was employed with the assistance of the barangay chairman and dispatcher who recommended the respondents of the study. Keywords: Habal-habal Drivers, Non-Formal Peace Education
CULTURAL VALUES STRUGGLE IN “PERJUMPAAN MALAM” SHORT STORY BY H. USMAN HERMAWAN, M. PD.
Cultural transition is a necessity. The form of the transition can be seen as social practice, one of it through narrative discourse. Narrative discourse is the result of active interaction between objective social classes with linguistic habitus by social agent. In the context of social practice, narrative discourse and “interest” is inseparable. When an author describe a concept, the author do not simply choose the word but, consciously or not, the author select the dictions with assumptions, values, and ideology that was attached in the word. The purpose of these study are to get an objective description of doxa, the arena of cultural values struggle, and habitual practice in “Perjumpaan Malam” short story. The method used in these study is the qualitative method through critical discourse analysis approach. The data resource is the text of “Perjumpaan Malam” short story by H. Usman Hermawan, M.Pd. published in Horison Online on February 4 th 2014. The data collection done by intensive reading method, while data analysis done by social function paradigm. The result of the study are as follows. The doxa in “Perjumpaan Malam” short story is the necessity of globalization. However, the society need to preserve the local values because globalization does not always correspond with Indonesian culture. The arena of cultural values struggle are the global, local, religion, and gender equality arena. The habitual practice was done by punishing people who violate local values, punishing people who violate religious values, as well as lifting the values of gender equality. Keywords: Culture Values, Struggle, Short Story
LEARNING METHOD SELF DIRECTED LEARNING BASED OF ICT: USED GAME ANDROID CHARACTER FOR INDONESIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING
In Indonesia, the game is still a flagship icon compared with teaching materials, especially in the culture of the city. The city's cultural community is characterized by (1) orientation to the future life; (2) More rational, pragmatic and hedonistic; (3) Cherish the time; (4) Working with calculating and careful planning; (5) Communication mostly relies on the use of communication technology equipments; (6) It takes less time to do chores; (7) Following the pop culture or something that are famous; (8) Professionals in the work; (9) Tend to be individualist; (10) Tend to follow the western culture: hedonistic, materialistic and pragmatic. Indonesian learning is still dominated by the perceived saturation of most students and university students in Indonesia. Assumptions that arise because the school or campuses have not been able to implement sustainability learning, fun and renewable. And then, the use of the learning method SDL (Self Directed Learning) in learning Indonesian implement learning systems independently. Learning system independently can develop students and university students actively. Active learning will make students more familiar with the material that they obtained. In this learning, Android Game Characters can be given to the children in kindergarten. They can get through the game to learn how to read. For teenagers in high school to university students, they can get through vocabulary games and Indonesian vocabulary. Then, to meet and follow the rapid global flow Self Directed Learning method with the use of ICT-based Learning Android Game Characters in learning Indonesian worth checking out and implemented by educators (teachers or lecturers) in Indonesia. Key words: Self Directed Learning, ICT, Android Game, Learning Indonesian
GRUWELL’S GREAT POWER TO REACH HER INTERESTS: A HEGEMONIC STUDY ON FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE
This research is aimed at analyzing how Erin Gruwell, as the major character in this movie, reaches her interest amidst the rejection of her boss and colleagues. Type of the study is qualitative one by applying library research. Object of the study is the way Gruwell takes to gain her interest. There are two data sources, namely primary data and secondary data. The primary data consist of the texts of the movie concerning with the ways Gruwell takes to achieve her interest. Secondary data cover another data that support the analysis. Technique of the data cellection is carried out through examining the text of the movie, selecting the texts relating to the main issue and determining the proper texts for the analysis. Technique of the data analysis is done by applying the theoretical framework of Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. Based on the result of analysis, it can be drawn as follows. Gruwell approaches some persons having higher authority to back up her interest, that is to teach, to educate, and to guide her students to find out a solution of their complex life problems. In relation to AEC, the figure of Gruwell can be a good teacher model in the Asia region, in which the implementation of teaching through multicultural background of the students is absolutely needed. Keywords: power, authority, interests, hegemony, inequality of power.
LEARNING VECTOR ANALYSIS WITH COMPUTER ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM (CAS) USING SCILAB AT THE MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF JEMBER
The ability to solve problems is the heart of mathematics, visualization is the core of mathematical problem solving. Visualization is the ability to see and understand the situation of the problem. Basically, students in need of interesting and innovative learning, therefore this research tries to makes learning interesting and innovative with the linking of learning with learning model analysis Vector Computer Algebraic System (CAS) using Scilab programming. Learning aims to maximize learning student. This course is given to Mathematics Education at the University of Muhammadiyah Jember sixth semester. This research is a development research, because in this study developed a learning tool Vector Analysis learning model Co mputer Algebraic System (CAS) using scilab. The results of us researches show that VIA semester students of the University of Muhammadiyah Jember able to receive learning vector analysis to go through three stages, namely CAS surprises, clarifications, and investigation by a computerized scilab program. While the results of the validation of SAP including both categories, validation modules included both categories, results of the validation test is good category, which means that learning is said to be effective, it shows that learning device Analysis Vectors learning model CAS using the program scilab can be categorized as a good device. Keywords: CAS (Computer Algebraic System), Scilab, Vector Analysis
FACTORS CONSIDERED IN DEVELOPING MATERIALS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS
Teaching English to Young Learners (EYL) is different from teaching English to adult learners. This demands different sort of materials as well. Teacher’s competence also plays an important role in determining whether the teaching materials are good or teachable for the learn ers or not. Besides, YL characteristics, age, cultural contexts, schools, syllabuses, and leaner cognitive level of development also important in deciding the materials appropriate of the teaching of EYL. This paper aims to discuss further on how and what kind of teaching materials; mostly textbooks, are appropriate for learning English to Young learners. Keywords: teaching English to young learners, young learners, teaching materials
THE PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM: AN APPROACH TO OPTIMIZE COMMUNICATION ABILITY OF THE AUTISTIC CHILDREN
The communication barrier is a disorder condition that is often found among the autistic children. Therefore we need an approach to optimize the communication ability of the autistic children. PECS is very effective to help the autistic children to communicate and to control their emotions. PECS can be used as a starting point to build the interactions during the instruction both between autistic students and their teachers, and between thier classmates and the environment more effectively. The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a unique alternative communication intervention method for individuals with autism. It is an approach to practice communication ability using non-verbal symbols. PECS is primarily an attempt to stimulate the children’s communication ability spontaneously. The use of visual language instead of verbal language is an initial mediation effort towards the communication process appears to be more complicated. The process of visual communication in turn triggers verbal expressions. PECS can be considered as efforts to provide visual stimuli. The process can be done in several phases. In the first phase the children are introduced to the non-verbal symbols. The different phases show the ability levels and the children’s development. To apply PECS , it is required to use a behavior modification. By using the behavior modification, it will be covered up the children desire. The objects desired will enforce the children to communicate through the pictures exchange, in which in the final phase the use of PECS approach makes the children motivated to speak. Keywords: communication, autistic children, PECS
THE CULTURAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOOL TO INCREASE INDONESIAN LANGUAGE SKILLS OF LEARNERS (A CASE STUDY IN SMPN 3 SUMBAWA BESAR)
This study focused on the identification of the problem based on the English four skills that is reflected in the aspects of the competency and performance. The problem is assessed through elements of the school culture by using interviews, observation, and document analysis. Problem identified is the lack of ability to speak for Indonesian learners. SMPN 3 Sumbawa reviewed based on competence and performance aspect because of less optimal contribution of school culture based assessment elements.. As for the data collection methods used were interviews, observation, and document analysis. Based on interviews, the problems found were closely linked to the element of stakeholders. Such as the lack of commitment of the head master to control the continuity of programs that support the promotion of Indonesian language skills at school, teachers who are less competence in the profession to develop theater activities, and students who do not commit to follow the programs implemented due to financial constraints and their other activities at the same time. Based on the observation of the problem , the linguistic competence and performance of learners were not optimal because of insufficient input because they are dominantly affected by the use of the mother tongue (Sumbawa language) in their daily life interaction. Based on the results of the analysis of the problems found was also related to the layout and location of SMPN 3 Sumbawa that was unfavorable. SMPN 3 Sumbawa location just next to the market and current trade activity and the noise of passing vehicles sounds when learning Indonesian take place in the classroom. Consequently, it affects the learners’ focus on the material being taught; the absence of laboratory infrasrtucture aspect of supporting an increase in the ability to speak Indonesian; furthermore, a vision which is reflected in the learning program has not been implemented optimally and by seventeen development of the character values are closely linked to improved language of Indonesian ability althought implementation is still very minimal. Keyword: school culture, the ability to speak Indonesian, learners, SMPN 3 Sumbawa
IMPROVING ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE IN PATTANI THAILAND
This paper concerns at brief descriptions about how the implementation of parliamentary debate is able to improve the students’ speaking ability. However, many students find speaking as one of the most difficult skills in learning English. Therefore, parliamentary debate appears as a solution to enhance the eleventh grade students’ speaking ability in Azizstan Foundation School Pattani Thailand. Meany (2002: 6) mentioned that Parliamentary Debate teaches sophisticated skills in extemporaneous speaking, critical listening, critical thinking, research, and presentation. The theory above is also supported by a study result of analyzing students’ speaking ability in the class that has conducted towards eleventh grade students of senior high school which consists of 30 students. The findings revealed that compared to the first cycle, the students are able to deliver their arguments effectively by using their notes as a guidance to elaborate more arguments, point by point in the second cycle. All in all, it can be concluded that Parliamentary Debate is able to significantly affect the overall performance of the students’ speaking ability. Key Words: Parliamentary Debate, Speaking Ability
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY USING PRIME METHOD
This classroom action research aims at knowing how PRIME (Practical, Relevant, Integrated, Meaningful and Enrich) is able to improve the students’ speaking ability. The data was taken from 12 students of seventh grade at Muslim Bamrung School Yala Thailand. After implementing PRIME for 4 meetings in 2 cycles, it reveals that PRIME is able to improve students speaking ability by focusing the activity on drilling individually. Significantly, PRIME is able to develop their activeness in involving teaching and learning process and their confidence to speak English. Keywords: PRIME, speaking ability
Mukhlas Febriandi, Anita Fatimatul Laeli
THE PERCEPTION OF THE PARENTS AND STUDENTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF K – 12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IN THE PHILIPPINES
The study aims to know the perception or understanding of the parents, students and the community on the implementation of K – 12 Basic Education Program (BEC) in the District of Balabac Schools Davison of Palawan at Mangsee National High School (MNHS), Philippines. The researcher has encountered varieties perceptions or understanding of the parents, students and the community. Some of the informant has a positive and negative reaction on the said program. The purpose of the study is to contribute the progressive and development of Mangsee National High School and to advocate the main purposes of the program to the parents, students and the community in the District of Balabac as well as in the entire country since this K – 12 Program is new curriculum that implemented by the former President of the Republic of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III and his Education Secretary Dr. Armin Luistro in 2013. The study is done by using qualitative approach. Keywords: Educational Development, New Curriculum, Global Competitive, Job Opportunity and Economic Education.
THE ASSESSMENT OF 2013 CURRICULUM AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
The assessment of 2013 curriculum is considered difficult to do. 2013 curriculum is an activity based curriculum in which there are spiritual and social competence, cognitive competence and skill competence taught integratedly. In line with these competences, of course suitable asssessments are needed. The assessments include the attitude, cognitive and skill assessments. However, many teachers stated that the assessments of 2013 curriculum are difficult to do, and are meaningless, the 1 - 4 score scale is difficult to implement, besides society do not understand this scoring system. To overcome this problem, there is a discussion about the techniques and the assessment result management of the 2013 curriculum. This paper is aimed at enabling senior high school teachers to manage the 2013 curriculum assessment. Therefore, the focus of the discussion is how to implement assessment of 2013 curriculum. Keywords : assessment of 2013 curriculum
THE VALIDITY OF SCIENSE LEARNING MEDIA TO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
This study aims to develop science teaching media. This is a development research that develops science teaching that consists of Learning Implementation Plan, Student Activity Sheet, and guide the students. The procedure consists of several phases: preliminary studies, model development, model validation, operational models, validation tools, and empirical validation. This section reports the results of the validation of learning science developed oriented learning model scaffolding aided analogy. The results of the expert validation indicate that the device developed learning science oriented learning model scaffolding aided analogy is valid and can be implemented in learning to practice thinking skills and to complete mastery of concepts of junior high school students. Keywords: Science Learning Media, Validity
Masra Latjompoh , Muslimin Ibrahim , Tjandrakirana
LEARNING TOOL DEVELOPMENT TO TRAIN THINKING SKILL OF BIOLOGY STUDENTS USING THE PRIMA LEARNING MODEL
The purpose of the research development is to produce the learning tool to train thinking skill of biology student in genetic subject by using the PRIMA learning model. The research was designed by using Dick and Carey (2005) learning developement design, and it was conducted through 3 learning steps which is adapted from Carin (1993), they are: 1) guided discovery, 2) less structured guided discovery, 3) free discovery. The data was qualitative and quantitative data consist of learning tools validity, the result of the learning process by giving the formative test to the students, observation result to learning process and students thinking skill, and feedback information from the students, it was analysis after the learning process. The test result was 70% students and it was indicated that students complete in learning, they know about the concept in genetic subject after given the test. At the other said, average percentage of the learning process and students thinking skill was minimal 75%. The research was result the valid learning tool, practical and effective which can be used in learning process to train students thinking skill. The result of validation show that learning tool can be used (in valid category). The result of limited trial show that the learning tool was developed is practical and generaly can be said effective if looking from the test result and student thinking skill. Keywords: Learning Tool, Prima Learning Model, Thinking Skill
Frida Maryati Yusuf , Soeparman Kardi , Yuni Sri Rahayu
Language development is always in line with the growth of the child. Parents should always pay attention to these development, because at this time, largely determines the learning process. This can be done by giving a good example, to motivate children to learn. Parents are largely responsible for the success of children's learning and should always strive to improve the potential of children in order to develop optimally. In view of its function, language is the ability to communicate with others. There are significant differences between the understanding of language and speech. Languages include all forms of communication, both expressed in the form of oral, written, sign language, gestures, facial expressions, pantonim or art. However, spoken language is the most effective form of communication, and the most important and widely used. This study wants to describe how language both oral and written are developed at the early childhood.The result shows that there are several theories have challenged the development of language, such theories are natavism, cognitivism, and behaviourism. Language development is divided into three periods, namely: Period Prelingual, Early Lingual Period and Differentiation Period. Start early period this early lingual child starts to say the word - first word which is the most amazing moment for parents.The factors that affect languages development including health, intelligence, social economic condition, family relationship, family size, peer relationships and personality. Keywords: Language Development, Early Childhood
ISLAMIC SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL EDUCATION: PESANTREN OF NAHDLATUL WATHAN
Education is one of the runways of human development in the life of a nation, state, and religion. It is an integral part as an effort to improve people's life both spiritually and socio-culturally. Religious education, specifically, has also been dedicating itself as an important part in the development of human civilization. One form of the real contribution is the establishment of a religious based education system called pesantren. Any kind of boarding school education has improved a lot. One of them is Nahdlatul Wathan (NW) on the island of Lombok and Sumbawa (Nusa Tenggara Barat-NTB). NW as an important part in the development of today's society has made itself as an Islamic-based education dominated the balance of spirituality and socio-cultural. This study aims at describing the domain associated with the continuum between aspects of spirituality with the socio-cultural context of society. It is expected to be a scientific reference for the development of education-based Islam, both for internal purpose of Nahdlatul Wathan Boarding School and externally across the country. So the spiritual concepts presented as typical of Islamic boarding schools will be able to co-exist well with the socio-cultural context contained in the public life. Keywords: education, schools, Nahdlatul Wathan, spirituality, sociocultural
Wirman Hardi Gunawan, Rozali Jauhari Alfanani
MOTIVATING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES OF SUCCESS FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS: THE PHENOMENON OF EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT INDONESIAN LEARNERS
This paper is based on the assumption that we need theories that discuss about how successful foreign language learners learn in a classroom, what they have done in the process of learning and why some foreign language learners can rapidly increase their competence in learning foreign language while others cannot. Individual differences play an important role during this process. This paper focuses on the discussion about such phenomena from psychological perspectives. In so doing, it focuses on the differences among learners themselves, especially from their personality. Psychologically speaking, language learners are different in terms of how they deal with the process of learning and how they approach the learning process. Both of them can be differed from their personality. Extrovert and introvert will have different way dealing with the process of learning. With regard to extrovert language learners, they usually tend to be active (talk more) in learning process. On the contrary, introvert learners usually tend to passive in answering or asking during learning process but can still be mentally active. Keywords: introvert, extrovert, introvert and extrovert learners, foreign language learners.
PARENTS’ PARENTING CONTRIBUTION IN CHARACTER EDUCATION
Building positive character can be developed through value habituation, either in social or religion which internalized through social interaction. Character that has been formed is expected to be firmly entrenched and become life principal in children’s life. In this context, parents become the main persons in charge of the process of building the character of children. Parents should be able to be a good role model because most of children’s time is spent in the family. Good model and habituation become a fundamental step in character education. A shift in social values is started to frequently happen. Matters which were taboo, now becomes a normal thing. Corruptions, teenagers’ mini dress phenomenon, exaggerating dating style, married by accident, until teacher which had been killed by his/her students, and student imprisons his teacher. Nowadays, split of personality is happening, where individuals have not yet able to unite between words and deeds. Shyness culture seems to be eroded. Therefore, parents’ parenting is hoped to be able to shape children’s character, so that they have strong mental which always consider values as their guidance and life principal, not only knows but also able to implement it in daily life. Thus, those are democratic parenting style, not permissive parenting style or even authoritarian parenting style. Various aspects, such as family, school, society, and government are necessary to be synergized in order to success the character education. Keywords: character education, family, parenting style
CHARACTER EDUCATION AS THE PLACE FOR SHAPING THE MORALITY OF CHILDREN OF THE NATION
Character education in various schools in Indonesia has received attention, and even becomes priority. However, how far can the character education be designed as integrated part in formal education? This paper discusses about the importance of learning character building as a part of character education in formal education system. Character education has been well-arranged to build a good individual character. Nevertheless, in the implementation, design, and application of the program has not really covered all the children yet, either at home or at school. In this case, we need to pay attention and analyse how important character education in curriculum as one of the main subjects. It has been done by book expert; however, there is still something deviated from children’s behaviour either in school or in the society even though teacher has revealed his or her maximum teaching skill with hope that it can develop well. Nowadays, education problem is not only a planned and conscious effort to establish learning condition and learning process inside the room. Education is not only a mere interaction through electronic media so that children actively develop their potential to have a power in moral, self -control, and even creativity inside themselves, society, and nation. Thus, it brings significant influence to the development of the students in order to develop a good character, dignified and enrich the life of a nation. It is necessary to be re-examined through team as one of the efforts to do continuous improvements. Keywords: character education, personality
CHILDREN SELF-REGULATION: A MODEL IN FLASH FLOOD DISASTER RISK AT SITUBONDO EAST JAVA INDONESIA
The article was based on the case study that was conducted in Kabupaten Situbondo, East Java. The purpose of the study was to explore how the children who live in a region with flash flood haza rd develop their adaptation competencies with disaster in harmony before and after disaster occurred. Early children usually are vulnerable in disaster hazard because of their lack of physical, knowledge and understanding on that matter. Living in an area with disaster hazard causes them develop some ways to regulate themselves from disaster consequences. This phenomenon is called self-regulation in which self-awareness and the maturation of socioemotional developed naturally. Using qualitative analysis, the result describes the categories from three children as information subject. Keywords: Disaster hazard, Flash flood, self-awareness, self-regulation
Tri Endang Jatmikowati , W. Dyah Laksmi Wardhani
THE EFFECT OF MATHEMATIC GAMES TOWARDS CHILDREN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AT B GROUP IN PAUD WIDYAMANDALA AND PAUD AL HIKMAH BONDOWOSO
This research background that is in the BIPA learning process, Indonesian language errors cannot be avoided by a foreign learner. BIPA student competence with knowledge of the rules, Indonesian vocabulary, and culture is limited can be a error factors. Thailand learners often face difficulties when they have to write in Indonesian, especially in forming sentence structures that raw and acceptable. This study aimed to describe the linguistic taxonomy seen through the study of syntax to find syntax errors in Thailand learners writing, find errors that are most dominant, and describe the factors that caused the error. Data collected from essay writing narrative of Thailand students studying in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Study Program Language an d Literature Indonesia, University of Muhammadiyah Jember. The object of research is the use of the phrase that contains errors syntactic structure. This study uses descriptive qualitative method, describe the state of naturals regarding the errors use of syntactic structure on a narrative essay Thailand students. Data were analyzed using agih metodhs with baca markah techniques and padan otografis methods with pilah unsur penentu technique, by classifying errors using linguistic categories. The research instrument is the human istrument, which is a key instrument by using the criteria of shape and distribution. In seeking the causes of syntactic errors by Thailand learners, The main theory used is based on the theory Corder (1981), Richard (1985) and Selinker (1994). The assumption in the research error analysis is that the language teaching should be focused on the greatest frequency learner speak errors. Search their causal factors and the kinds of mistakes made by learners is more important because it can be used as a basis to correct learn errors and speak errors of the learner. Keywords: taxonomic linguistics, syntax, BIPA
GROUP PROCESS APPROACH IN MATHEMATICS LEARNING
Group process approach (GPA) is the teacher’s effort in grouping the students into some groups by considering the individual itself that build enjoyable atmosphere. GPA is often used by the teacher in learning, even in mathematics learning. Mathematics learning is the teacher’s effort in helping the students in order they can learn numeric and operational procedure that is used in solving problem about numeric based on their need and interest. The purpose of this research is (1) to describe management of the class with GPA (2) to describe kinds of mathematics learning approach that use GPA. This research is descriptive research. Data collection method that is used is interview, documentation and observation. From the result of the research, we can conclude that there are six elements in GPA: purpose of the research, responsibility, group construction, the rule in group, communication, the correlation between members of the group. Mathematics learning approach that uses GPA is contextual approach. Keyword: approach, group process, mathematics learning.
EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES TO SOLVE THE TEACHING PROBLEMS IN EFL CLASSES
Teaching a language especially teaching English as Foreign Language cannot be separated from occurring the problems. An English teacher should be wise to overcome problems in teaching English since it involves some aspects that need to be handled carefully for the sake of the success of teaching learning process. Effective techniques are really needed and even they are “more important” than the material itself. The present study investigates the techniques the teacher uses (1) to negotiate meaning with the students, and (2) to cope with the learners’ errors. The study is descriptive study. It is held in Senior High School. It involves regular teaching learning process in English class in eight meetings. The data were collected through observations and interviews. The result shows that there are some techniques dominantly used and categorized effective among the techniques implemented by the teacher. Further discussions on findings are elaborated and suggestion will also be recommended. Keywords: Teaching technique, communication, negotiate meaning, learners’ errors
THE EFECT OF RQA-COMBINED TPS ON THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ RETENTION IN GENETICS SUBJECT AT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH JEMBER
The teaching and learning strategies applied in Biology Department at University of Muhammadiyah Jember are mostly lecturing.. This method, said to be one of the conventional methods , is also applied in Genetics course. This method has not been proven to be effective in optimizing the abilities of the students to have good thinking skill as one of the life skills should be acquired yet. As a proposed solution, a more students-centered approach, constructivists, is offered to invite more participation of the students during teaching and learning activities. Applying active learning strategies and constructivist causes students actively involved in learning. Material learned can be meaningful and retention of students increased. The strategy offered is the Combination of Reading, Questioning and Answering (RQA) and Think Pair and Share (TPS). The combination of these two is to train students to read, formulate questions, and provide answers, and discuss with their peers or groups on the material being taught. The problem of the study is to find out how significant is the effect of Reading, Questioning and Answering (RQA) and Think Pair and Share (TPS) toward students’ retention on Genetics course. The research design applied in the study is quasi -experimental design. It is aimed at giving the real description on the effects of students’ retention. The population of the study are the two classes of fifth (5th) semester students of Biology Department of the University of Muhammadiyah Jember. One class is treated as the controlled group which applied think, pair, and share strategy, and another one is of the experiment group which applied the combination of reading, questioning and answering strategy and think pair and share strategies. The results of the study show that the average retention of the students of the experiment group is higher than those of the controlled group. The average corrected score on learning strategies combined TPS and RQA are 9.6% higher compared to learning the TPS. Keywords: RQA, TPS, retention
CATEGORY CHANGING PROCESS OF JAVANESE IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS USED IN SERAT DEWARUCI
Indonesia is a big country that has a great number of population, cultures, dialects, and languages as well. Here the writer takes Serat Dewaruci as his preference because there exist the event and the multicultural education learning in it. As it is told in Serat Dewaruci, the King decendant, firstly, Wrekudara can not speak polite Javanese (kromo and kromo inggil), but after finding the Dewaruci, he can speak polite Javanese and even talk by using expressions. Many of the expressions talked are the idiomatic expressions. That is why, the writer introduce it further to the reader with the title: “An Analysis on Category Changing Process of Javanese Idiomatic Expressions Used in Serat Dewaruci”. The problems of the present study covers: What are the idiomatic expressions found at the third part in Serat Dewaruci? In writing and composing this paper, the writer has a purpose, that is analysing the category changing process happened to Javanese idiomatic expressions those are used in Serat Dewaruci. The study was qualitative in which the data was in the form of corpus of text. The data collected were consulted them to the experts, whether the collected data were correct or not. After the data had been collected, the selection of the data were done to choose the accurate data given by the informants. Furthermore, the step in data analysis is analyse the word changing of the idiomatic expressions by applying the process of the category changing. From this analysis, it is found that there are 2 kinds of idiomatic expression categories. They are: the idiomatic expressions those are as phrases, and the idiomatic expressions those are as sentences or clauses. Finally, the writer suggests that the Javanese youth have to take care this Javanese literary work, especially the Javanese song, because it is difficult or even impossible for the other country literary work to influence the Javanese one. The writer also suggests that this paper can be used as the comparative analysis for further research. Keywords: Expressions, idiom classification, category changing
THE USE OF QUESTIONING STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 2 WULUHAN
The objective of this research is to find out how the use of Questioning Strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension and students participation. The design of this research is classroom action research. The research subject is XI IPS class consisting of 32 students. The data are collected using interview, observation, test and instrument used is test items. In order to analyze the data students’ reading score-, percentage formula is used.Questioning Strategy improved the students’ reading comprehension in two cycles percentage of students scored ≥75 was 62,5% in the first cycle, and it was 81,25% in the second. Based on the research result, it can be concluded that Questioning Strategy is able to improve reading comprehension and students’ participation at SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Wuluhan in the 2015 – 2016 academic year. KeyWords: Reading Comprehension, Questioning Strategy
INDONESIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR FOREIGN SPEAKERS CONTAINING LOCAL CULTURAL WISDOM
Language has an important role in communication as well as diplomacy between nations. Awareness of the importance of language in cultural understanding between countries is what has been behind the rise of Indonesian Teaching activity for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) both inside and outside the country. Based on the data from the Center for Strategy and Development of Cultural Diplomacy (PPSDK), in 2016, targeted 80 BIPA teachers will be sent to various countries. Nearly 46 countries around the world, both in higher education institutions as well. These developments are triggering the birth of a number of studies about the BIPA's. The issue of learning does have a strategic role in BIPA program. In an effort to develop the language and build resilience culture then one of the strategies that can be used is to make BIPA has insight into local cultural wisdom. Local cultural wisdom can be used as reference for the essential and strategic in developing teaching materials with a variety of approaches. Local cultural wisdom will build two resiliences at the same time, the inside and outside, both for teachers and learners.as embassies and consulates general of Indonesia in various countries have held BIPA program. Keywords: BIPA Program, Teaching Material, Local Cultural Wisdom
READING IN CONTENT AREA ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Reading across the curriculum can be defined as a key competence in the curriculum. It means that students read the text in order to help them to organize thoughts, construct the meaning, and communicate the information and ideas contained in books or electronic text, as well as revealing knowledge across the curriculum. Content area reading is to read and understand the information on a particular subject. It includes the definition of science in social studies, history, civics, laws and mathematics. To read the related field of content not only reflects on the concepts and necessary ideas to the subjects, but also the structure of the text that is used to read the content area of the study. Reading and writing are two important things have to be trained in all levels of education. Therefore, it is important to design the integration of reading to all content areas of the study. Integrating needs to be planned in college or school level. In fact, the problems occur at the school level in which teacher still experiences problems in integrating the content area reading of study. The difficulties caused by lack of knowledge onreading. Moreover, the teacher still considers that teaching reading is the responsibility of language teacher. Various problems of learning reading should be handled immediately. Since, reading skills are important at all levels of education from a primary level to college which relates to reading activities. Hence, integration of reading is needed in all content areas of study. The use of reading strategies for all content area of the subjects needs the support from experts of universities who understand the concept of reading strategies which can be used for reading learning in the content areas of study, namely KWL PLUS, The DR -TA (Directed Reading and Thinking Activity), Read Aloud, and Retelling. The use of the strategies can be taught by lecturers to students. In addition, it also can be trained to the teacher of the study by reading experts. Keywords: Reading, Content Area, Strategy
QUALITY ASSURANCE STRATEGIES: TYPOLOGY AND OUTCOMES-BASED TEACHING INNOVATION EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
Quality assurance has been a global quest for institutions of higher learning. In the Philippines, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), has designed a new strategy, an approach geared toward developing competent and high-level human resources and generating knowledge and technologies needed for advancing the country’s national development and competitiveness. This study presents experiences of three academic institutions of higher learning in Southern Philippines in its implementation of the new quality assurance strategy; present the quality assurance framework of the Commission on Higher Education; discuss the innovative instructional strategies (Outcomes -Based Education) mandated by the quality assurance framework; describe the experiences of three Southern Philippines universities; and, present personal analysis of the realizability of the quality assurance framework. The quality assurance framework includes the categorization of the institutions of higher learning as University, Professional Institution and College, all with their corresponding nature and tasks in the educational process. It is in the fulfillment of their tasks that they could be sustainable as higher education institutions. Further, quality assurance mandates the shift to innovative teaching strategies known as the Outcomes Based Education in which outcomes are the indicators of quality. The outcomes are classified as Institutional Graduate Outcomes, Program Outcomes, Course Outcomes and Learning Outcomes. Based on the experiences of the three institutions whose implementation are being studied, there are difficulties experienced because the change necessitates the matching shift in instruction, in the policies and behavior of faculty. However, despite the difficulties, generally, the schools are slowly making the quality assurance framework work in their schools. Keywords: Innovative Teaching Strategies, Quality Assurance, typology, Outcomes-Based Education
THE INTRODUCTION TO MATH FOR CHILDREN IN EARLY AGES
An early age (0-6) years is a golden period. This is the right time to provide stimulation to optimize all aspects of children development. The aspects of children development that is in questions are: moral, cognitive, motor, language, social, emotional, and art. All of those aspects need to be developed for early childhood education, and one of them is cognitive development consisting of the concept of shapes, sizes, and patterns, a concept of numbers, symbols of numbers and letters that can be introduced through playing math. The introduction of mathematics is very important for children in early ages. Many everyday problems, even a very simple matter requires mathematical calculations such as, shopping, counting objects, counting time, locating, counting distance, and counting speed. Early childhood education teachers need to master simple math concepts that are appropriate for children in their early childhood. The strategy to introduce simple math needs to be understood in order to train children to count and use other mathematical calculations. In order to introduce math for children in early childhood, forms of activities are geared towards the development and characteristics of children i.e. by playing. Teacher introduces mathematics by using fun activities and using concrete media. For children in 5-6 years old, their cognitive development is being switched at a pre-operational phase to concrete. At this stage, children learn best through presence objects. Children will easily remember things, numbers, and characteristics even though it was not appeared in front of him. The introduction of mathematics was expected in the various aspects of child developments, especially cognitive development in which it can be developed optimally. Keywords: Introduction to Mathematics, Early Childhood Education, Early Ages
ELT CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: FROM IDEOLOGY TO DESIGN
This paper discusses the process of developing a curriculum in the contexts of English language teaching (ELT). It argues that curriculum developers/designers need to move from outlining the ideology before establishing the curriculum design. The ideology refers to the nature of knowledge or skills that the students are to develop upon completing the course of instruction, while the design refers to a set of procedures carried out to establish the nature of the instruction. To maintain both practicality and applicability, this paper provides an example of curriculum development. The example deals primarily with developing a curriculum of academic English writing course in a certain higher educational context in Indonesia. Although the example deals primarily with the development of a curriculum of a particular course of instruction in a certain educational context, the principles underlying the development, however, is relevant to the process of developing a curriculum in general. Keywords: curriculum development, ELT curriculum, academic L2 writing
Potentially, there exists language phenomenon in every society such as taboo words or expressions. Taboo word occured in the society as a part of the culture which perhaps are different in terms of meaning and form. Cerainly, those taboo words will be disadavantage to EFL/ESL learning if they resemble to the English words. This study was intended to investigate 1) the existence of taboo words used in daily verbal communication in Thai society; 2) how the taboo words implicate to Thai learners’ EFL learning. This study was qualitative which employed the researchers themselves as the key instrument. The subjects of the study which also became the source of the data were Southern Thai EFL learners. The data were collected by using interview and documentation. The data analysis was conducted in three stages: reducing data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusion or verifying the data. The findings irevealed that there existed a lot taboo words in Thai society. Keywords: Linguistic taboo, EFL classroom
LINGUISTIC TAXONOMY CATEGORY OF SYNTACTIC ERRORS; A CASE STUDY OF THAILAND STUDENTS IN MUHAMMADIYAH JEMBER UNIVERSITY
This research background that is in the BIPA learning process, Indonesian language errors can not be avoided by a foreign learner. BIPA student competence with knowledge of the rules, Indonesian vocabulary, and culture is limited can be a error factors. Thailand learners often face difficulties when they have to write in Indonesian, especially in forming sentence structures that raw and acceptable. This study aimed to describe the linguistic taxonomy seen through the study of syntax to find syntax errors in Thailand learners writing, find errors that are most dominant, and describe the factors that caused the error. Data collected from essay writing narrative of Thailand students studying in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Study Program Language a nd Literature Indonesia, University of Muhammadiyah Jember. This study uses descriptive qualitative method, describe the state of naturals regarding the errors use of syntactic structure on a narrative essay Thailand students. Data were analyzed using agih metodhs with baca markah techniques and padan otografis methods with pilah unsur penentu technique, by classifying errors using linguistic categories. The research instrument is the human istrument, which is a key instrument by using the criteria of shape and distribution. In seeking the causes of syntactic errors by Thailand learners, The main theory used is based on the theory Corder (1981), Richard (1985) and Selinker (1994). The assumption in the research error analysis is that the language teaching should be focused on the greatest frequency learner speak errors. Search their causal factors and the kinds of mistakes made by learners is more important because it can be used as a basis to correct learn errors and speak errors of the learner. Keywords: taxonomic linguistics, syntax, BIPA
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BASED ON COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Open competition in global period, especially in Asean Economic Community (AEC) Zone has been effective since 2015. The logic implication from this agreement, all countries should prepare to face an open competetion in all living aspects. No choices, all actors who want to be successful and be winners have to prepare competitive and comparative excellences. Education institutions (schools) have main strategic to create the excellent manpower. Schools can not be developed through copy and paste the best practices from other schools. Schools development should refer to real school condition. School with differences only can survive in the era. Research is the sistematic and logical method to develop differences school. Collaborative research (CR) model have a great potential to develop the idol schools. In CR model, all school communities have significant role in schools improvement. CR will produce best practices to all schools developing aspects. When the research has been cultured, school communities get a great manual to school improvement in the future. With CR, schools have different fomula to create the excellent manpower based on standard operation procedure. Key words: school improvement, collaborative research, differences, and excellent manpower.
SHARED BOOK EXPERIENCE IMPLEMENTATION: PRACTICE TEACHING MODEL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY
This paper focuses on discussing practice teaching in improving students’ speaking ability. In some English classes, students’ speaking ability still becomes a big interest for the teacher to pay attention because of some difficulties. To face this problem, Shared Book Experience strategy is posing to solve problem in improving the students’ speaking ability. Referring to the research problem, the research objective is to find out how Shared Book Experience strategy can improve students’ speaking ability. The design of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The research subject is Fourth semester students of English language Education Program university of Muhammadiyah Jember. The data was analyzed by percentage formula. The implementation of Shared Book Experience strategy was group and individual work for the students. They did for both principle and practice. Principle refers to the way they share through presentation and discussion the theory they had read from the book. The practices refers to the way how they practice the theory about certain theory of Teaching English in the classroom. By sharing their knowledge from reading a book about teaching English and by practicing the theory of teaching English in classroom, they are facilitated to pra ctice speaking English, so they could do some efforts to improve their speaking ability. Those caused the result of cycle two achieved the criteria of success (≥75). Shared Book Experience strategy improved the students’ speaking ability in two cycles from 53% (26 from 49 students) in the first cycle to 82% (40 from 49 students) in the second cycle. Based on the research result, the conclusion is that Shared Book Experience is able to improve the students’ speaking ability by doing presentation and discussion about certain theory of teaching, and by practicing the theory in English classroom. Keywords: Shared Book Experience, Practice Teaching Model, Speaking Ability
ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION AT STUDY COURSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
One of the capabilities that must be owned by a math teacher is a mathematical communication skill. Mathematical communication is the mathematical ability of students to convey ideas, perceptions, and the mathematical solution to others. Mathematical communication in this research refers to the ability to express mathematical ideas through oral, written, and visually demonstrate and describe it; the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate mathematical ideas, either or ally, in writing, or in other visual forms; and the ability to use terms, notations of mathematics and its structures to present ideas and describe relationships with models situation. This research describes the ability of mathematical communications of Mathematics Education students of Muhammadiyah University of Jember in the material Pythagorean Theorem. Results from this research showed that when expressing mathematical ideas through speech, writing, demonstrating, and describe it visually, S1 express it clearly and completely but often has errors. Whereas when they understand, interpret, and evaluate mathematical ideas, either orally, in writing, or in any other visual form, S1 is doing it right, clear, and complete. When using the term, notation, mathematical structures to present ideas and describe relationships with models other situations, S1 used in full. But not in terms of truth and clarity. On the other hand, when expressing mathematical ideas through word of mouth do the obvious but it is not tr ue and clear. Whereas when they understand, interpret, and evaluate mathematical ideas, either orally, in writing, or in any other visual form, S2 has been doing it right, clear, and complete. Furthermore, when they use the term, notation, mathematic structures to present ideas and describe relationships with another situation models, S2 does not do it correctly, clearly and completely. Keywords : ability of mathematical communication, students in mathematics education
THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING STRATEGY COMBINED BY JIGSAW TOWARDS CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY
The current problem of education is that students are less trained to develop their thinking capabilities. This is because teachers still consider giving information is more important than training the ability to think. One of the learning strategies that can train students to be able to learn independently and train high-level thinking capability is the Problem Based Learning strategy combined Jigsaw. The research aims to know the effect of Problem Based Learning strategy combined by Jigsaw towards critical thinking ability in the tenth grade students of Senior High School in Jember district. The research design was quasi-experiment. Pre-test and post-test non-equivalent control groups design was implemented. The population of this research is all of tenth grade students of senior high school in Jember in the academic year 2014/2015. The sample of this research is the students of 10 th Natural Science (IPA) 3 class as the control group, and then 10 th IPA 1, 10 th IPA 2, and 10 th IPA 4 as the experimental group. The technique of collecting sample was done by using simple random sampling. The data was taken by giving essay test. Moreover, the Hypothesis of the test was using Anakova’s formula. Before doing the hypothesis test, normality test was implemented by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov Anakova’s formula, and the homogeneity test was carried out by Levene’s Test formula to know whether the distribution is normal and homogenous. Thus, based on the data analysis result and discussion, it can be concluded that result of Anacova test showed that the critical thinking ability has p value = 0.729 bigger than α = 0.05, which showed that learning strategy did not exert any influences towards critical thinking capability. Keywords: problem based learning, jigsaw, critical thinking
ENGLISH ORAL COMMUNICATION MATERIAL FOR MIDWIFERY STUDENTS
Teaching material is one of the important components in the process of teaching and learning. Its appropriateness is an absolute demand to achieve the success in obtaining the maximum input of knowledge. The instructional design models used in the designing of teaching material are adopted from those of Dick and Carey (2005) as well as Borg and Gall, (1983). The result of English Oral Communication Material for midwifery students has specifically set as follows: Snapshot, Conversation in Context, Grammar Focus, Word Power and Video Viewing. The topic in every unit is set in chronological order based on the procedures of midwife work and the activity in every sub -unit is oriented for speaking which is preceded by various activities which apply CLIL approach and are supported by some learning theory such as behaviorism, constructivism, modeling, questioni ng and exercising. Hence, the final teaching material is regarded to be good enough, for this teaching material has filled the existing gap of English speaking learning needs which later on it can assist the midwifery students who are projected to work at international maternity clinics and hospitals in local or foreign countries. Keywords: Teaching material development, oral communication, Dick and Carry Instructional Design, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
HYPOTHETICAL MODEL OF LEARNING CYCLE AS PEDAGOGICAL TRANSFORMATION IN BIOLOGY LEARNING TO IMPROVE PROFESSIONALISM OF BIOLOGY TEACHER CANDIDATES
The 21 th century as the era of globalization provides opportunities and challenges of living and working in a diverse world and rapidly changing demand patterns of thinking and behaving to information and challenges. Life challenges mainly include economic and social change in this century called for a fundamental transformation in the skills, abilities, and attitudes. This transformation can be done through learning (including learning biology). The main lesson in pedagogy refers to the hue / teacher teaching styles which include: 1) The process of planning, 2) The process of teaching, and 3) The process of assessing and evaluating. The learning that is used for the transformation, particularly through the learning cycle models. The learning model learning cycle in biology learning in order to improve the professionalism of teacher candidates based on: 1) the development theory and the constructivist theory of Jean Piaget, 2) the concept of Vygotsky's scaffolding learning, 3) reflection, and 4) immersion. Keywords: Learning cycle, Pedagogic transformation, and Professionalism of biology teacher candidate
Kukuh Munandar , Muslimin Ibrahim , Leny Yuanita