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3. Team Game Tournament Type of Cooperative Learning Model
Team Games Tournament TGT is one of cooperative learning types. The students are divided into teams which consists of four person
or more with different levels of ability, gender, and ethnic background. Furthermore, teachers deliver the lessons, students learn in team and
ensure that all team members have mastered the lesson. After that the students will play academic game with other team members to get points.
Students play this game together with three people on the tournaments table , all three participants in the tournament table are the
students who have the same record at the last score. The team with high score will get awards from other teams Slavin, 2005: 163.
According to Slavin 2005: 166 TGT consists of five main components:
a. Classroom presentations The material in the first TGT introduced at the presentation in the
classroom. In this way the students have to actually pay full attention during class presentations, as it would greatly help in the game and the
score of the game will determine their teams score. b. Team
The team consists of several students representing all parts of the class in terms of academic performance, gender, race and ethnicity. The
main function of the team is ensure that all team members really learn,
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and more specifically, and prepare its members to contribute to the game.
Team is an important thing in the TGT. At each point, the emphasis is to make the team members do their best for the team, and the team
have to do their best to help each member. c. Game
Game consists of questions to test students’ knowledge gained from
class presentation and implementation of teamwork. Games are played on a table with four students, each representing a different team. A
student take a numbered card and have to answer questions as the number listed on the card.
d. Tournament The tournament is a structure in which the game takes place. It
usually done after a teacher gave a presentation in class and the team has performed work group on the activity sheets. In the first tournament,
the teacher pointed to the students to be at the tournament table four students are in the table 1, the next four in table 2 and so on.
Each group team gets a chance to choose a numbered card provided at the tournament table and try to answer any questions that
arise. The team that can answer the question correctly will receive a score that has been listed behind the card. Selection of numbered cards
will be rotated on each team in turn clockwise, until the allotted number or tournament time runs out.
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e. Team Recognition The award is given to the team that wins or gets the highest score,
the scores will ultimately serve as addition value of student assignments.
4. Learning Achievement
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