3.7.1.1 Material
STAD can be used with curriculum material specifically design for student’s team learning or it can be used with material adopted from text books or
other published source or with teacher-made-material. However, it is easy to make your own material as simple making a worksheet, answer sheet and a quiz for
each unit you plan to teach. Each unit should occupy three to five day’s instruction. In this study, the writer used descriptive text as the main material. So,
the students were asked to make descriptive text together with their group in order to improve their ability in writing descriptive text.
3.7.1.2 Assigning the Students to Teams
As we know, STAD system represents a cross-section of the class. A good team in the class is a four to five persons that are half male and half female. The
team would also have higher performer, a low performer and two average performers. Of course, high performer is relative term: it means high for the class
not necessarily high compared with national norms. The writer may take likes, dislikes and ‘deadly combination of students’ into account in assigning students to
team, but in deciding teams do not let students choose their own because they will tend to choose others like themselves.
Instead follow these steps: 1
Make Copies of Team Summary Sheet The writer makes one copy of a team summary sheet for every four to five
students in her class.
2 Rank Students
On a sheet of paper, the writer ranked the students in her class from highest to lowest in past performance. The writer used whatever information she had to
do this. 3
Decide on the Number of Teams Each team should have five members if possible. To decide how many teams
the writer would have, she divided the number of students in the class by twelve. The students of VIII E consist of 48 students, so the writer divided the
students into twelve groups; each group consisted of four students with different performers.
4 Assign the Students to Teams
In assigning students to teams, balance the team so that 1 each team is composed of students whose performance levels range from low to average to
high and 2 the average performance levels of all the teams in the class is about equal.
5 Fill out Team Summary Sheet
Fill in the name of the students on each team summary sheet, leaving the team name of space blank.
In this study, the writer assigned the students into team. In this phase, the writer used the students’ result of the last test they have done. Because the total of
the student was 48 students so the students were divided into twelve groups; each group consisting of four students.
3.7.1.3 Determining Initial Base Score
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