Shopping News Method Evaluation

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D. Shopping News Method

Shopping News Method SNM is a part of active learning that is introduced by Decentralized Basic Education DBE project just by telling each other among the partcipants teacher, but not written in the DBE’s hand book. It is often used in social science or language learning, but in this research we tried to use it in learning mathematics with the aim to make students more involved in learning activities, especially for communicating mathematical concept to her friends orally. In SNM, every student must get a term and then understand its concept, after that each student must exchange information with all of his friend so that every student get information about all concepts that day prepared to learn. After time provided for exchanging information out, the teacher tries to evaluate students mastery of concepts with questions. After the teacher sure that the students master the concept, starting with practice problems in similar way. It is SNM also. Finally, group presentation will be conducted by the teacher for completing the students understanding about those concepts. Observation of student’s participating in learning activities and pencil and paper test were done for data collecting in order to get an evaluation in this learning activities. RESEARCH METHODS This research will be carried out in class VIIA SMP Negeri 1 Sedati Sidoarjo East Java province in January 2011. The design used in this study followed the model of action research from Elliot Hopkins, 1985 with 4 four rounds. Each round is identical to the two meeting in the one-time class VIIA learning activities during the 2 hours lesson 2 x 40 minutes. The figure below is a research design according to the Elliot’s model of Classroom Action Research : 1. Design 2. Activity and Observation 3. Reflection International Seminar on Education “Road to World-Class School” 94 Follows are the plan implementation of the study : Round Research Program Research Activities A. Design a. Preparing teaching materials: Understanding How Expressing a set b. The learning process: Shopping News Method B. Activity Observation Sequence of Learning Activities: Brainstorming , Understanding Content 1, 2, 3 Evaluation Exercise Problem Competition 1 C. Reflection Evaluation of total reflection of round 1 for repairs round 2 A. Design a. Preparing teaching materials: Problems training about the definition how to claim a set. b. The learning process: Shopping News Method B. Activity Observation Sequence of Learning Activities: Brainstorming Apersepsi, Understanding Content 1, 2, 3, Evaluation Exercise Problem Competition 2 C. Reflections Total evaluation of the round 2 activities for repair 3rd round activities A. Design a. Preparing teaching materials: Types Relationships between sets b. The learning process: Shopping News Method B. Activity Observation Sequence of Learning Activities: Brainstorming, understanding the material 1, 2, 3, Evaluation Exercise Problem Competition 3 C. Reflections Total evaluation of the round 3 activities for repair round 4 activities A. Design a. Preparing teaching materials: Problems training b. The learning process: Shopping News Method B. Activity The observation sequence of learning activities: Brainstorming, Training Task 1, 2, 3. Final evaluation. 4 C. Reflections Evaluation of total reflection for all activities learning set with shopping News Method. Results and Discussion International Seminar on Education “Road to World-Class School” 95 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Shopping news methods in learning mathematics particular in theories of set as main subject has been going well with the results as follows : Round 1 : 1. Design: The learning material taken from Math Module Anonymous, 2007 page 207 s.d 230 and used to perfection in this time by learning students with teacher guidance. To the shopping news has been prepared Mathematics Information Exchange MIE that will be used by students in understanding the subject matter being studied today. 2. Learning Activity Observations: Activity Learning begins with pray together and then the teacher conducts a brainstorming activity about the set, then the students are divided into 4 groups. Each group consist of 6 - 7 students. Each student is given a sheet of MIE. After filling in your name, class and the topic today, each group was given two terms to their learned from teaching materials to master the concepts in the past 10 minutes. Then each group should choose two of its members as ambassadors to explain the last two terms to another group performance 2 minutes for each group. This is called a shopping news method. This activity is repeated with different students ambassadors. There are Found some students do not fill their MEI because they have not understood the meaning from this activity. After completion of exchange of information, problems were presented by the teacher for students. It will be discussed by the students with the group, then class discussion. 3. Reflection: Before the lesson ended, the teachers guide students to reflect all the activities that day as well as summarizing the material has been studied and equip students with homework for exercise. Results of reflection states that the ambassadors 2 students into other groups has not been served with perfect, because there are explanations do by one of the ambassadors alone, others just looking. So on the next lesson should be that both of these ambassadors should explain their own. International Seminar on Education “Road to World-Class School” 96 Round 2 : 1. Design : Teaching materials to be studied is the practice questions of Math Module Anonymous, 2007 Task 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4a and 6.4b. Certainly will not be discussed fully, but it will be conducted by shopping news, every 2 students got one question for assignment studied and then explained to the other.

2. Learning Activity Observations: Brainstorming made to recall the material they