Peningkatan Aktivitas dan Hasil Belajar Siswa Kelas IV pada Mata Pelajaran IPS Pokok

Abstract

Social sciences is one of the subject areas studied in primary school which aims to produce students become good citizens, ho are able to think and to continue the culture of the nation. But in reality, there are many teachers who simply make students as objects while learning and teachers in presenting the material less likely to use a method that involves students. This has been one of the causes of low activity and learning outmes of the fourth grade students of SDN Kebonsari 03 Jember in social studies learning. Therefore, action research needs to be conducted to fourth grade elementary school students as research subjects. This study was conducted in two cycles . Collecting data in this study used the observation method, interviews, testing and documentation. The purpose of this research is to improve the student activity and learning outcomes in the fourth grade students through implementation of cooperative learning model CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition) of social studies learning in SDN Kebonsari 03 Jember . Persentase of students activity classically at the first cycle was 68.8% and the second cycle increased to 73.7% with active category . Persentase of student learning outcomes classically at the first cycle was 68.9 and increased at the second cycle to 76.3 with good category . The results of this research indicated that the application of cooperative learning model CIRC can increase the activity and the learning outcomes of students in social studies learning of fourth grade in SDN Kebonsari 03 Jember.