Description of Initial Conditions
Origin group. Each group consisted of four students. Then, the original group was subdivided into groups of experts. The material
used in this first cycle: Closing Journal Entries.
2 Action
The action stage is an implementation of the action pla, based on research guidelines in lesson plan. During the action, the teacher
gives apperception until the end of the activity. Meanwhile, researchers conducted observations on the students during the
learning activity. Implementation of the first cycle consists of one meeting with the subject matter of Closing Journal Entries.
Implementation of the action in the first cycle can be described as follows:
Time :
juli 4
th
, 2015 Place
: Grade X Ak 1 SMK Negeri 1 Klaten
Number of Student :
36 students Allocation of Time
: 1 meeting
The steps in learning activities: a
Introduction
Preliminary activities were the teacher opened a lesson to greet students when entering the classroom and students answer
the teachers greeting. Furthermore, the teacher invites students to say a prayer before learning takes place. Finished praying,
teacher checks students attendance. After checking the
attendance of students, teacher delivers the basic competencies, learning objectives and indicators as well as explains the
learning model that will be used, ie learning model type Jigsaw. Before learning activities take place, students were asked to fill
out questionnaires about the learning activity as the initial data prior to the action.
b Main Activities
Teacher explains briefly the material about Closing Journal Entries. After that, the teacher divides the students into
nine groups known as the Origin group. Each group consisted of four students. The Origin group was then subdivided into groups
of experts. Expert Group is composed of two groups, each group discussed the different materials, namely Closing Journal
Entries and Reversing Journal Entries. Then the teacher with students make an agreement about the division of time spent by
a group of experts to discuss and time used to teach their friends in Origin group. Expert Group in the first cycle is the group that
received material Closing Journal Entries. Teachers provide some questions to the expert group. This
is done to determine how far the students understanding of Closing Journal Entries. The question is only answered by a
particular student alone or together in a low voice.
After the time given to the group of experts is over, the teacher invited the expert group members to go back to each
Origin group. Expert group members are then assigned and is responsible for delivering and discussing the Closing Journal
Entries to the Origin group members. Teachers around to supervise the activities of Origin group discussion. Teachers
also help student who have difficulty in understands the subject matter. In cycle I, there are only few students who were asked
some question to the teacher. After the time of discussion that is given to the Origin
group is over, the teacher gives some questions about the Closing Journal Entries for each group. Each group was asked to
answer the questions, while the other group was asked to respond to the answer. However, only a few students are
responding. c
Closing
After the group discussion is finished, the teacher invited the students to return to their seats. The teacher gives evaluation
questions to determine how far the individual of student has understood the Closing Journal Entries. Students are required to
submit their answer to the teacher when they finished did those exercise.
After all of the students submit their answers, teacher along with the students concluded the material that has been
studied and advised the students to study hard. Learning activities closed with greeting by the teacher.
3 Observation
Observations made by observe and record things done by teachers and students during the learning process with learning
model type Jigsaw. It was observed the students learning activities. Observation was done by using observation sheet.
Based on observations on the actions of the first cycle, it can be seen that the students seemed to have a better learning activity if
compared with their activity in the initial conditions before the action is taken. Students look more active in group discussions,
answering questions of teachers and take a note of material about Closing Journal Entries. It is indicates that the learning activities of
students has increased.
4 Reflection and Evaluation
Reflection is made to recall things that are done during the implementation of the action. Researchers told a teacher about
things that are deemed to be lacking, and the successes achieved in the cycle I. The successful implementation of the action on the first
cycle is shown by the students are more active if compared with the activity before the action. It can be seen from the activity of