Reciprocal Teaching Instruction at State Islamic Senior High School (Man) 1 Banjarnegara,Banjarnegara Regency, Indonesia
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https://doi.org/10.24036/sjdgge.v10i1.741Keywords:
Reciprocal Teaching, Learning Activities, GeographyAbstract
The phenomenon of low active involvement and weak conceptual understanding in students of grades XI-7 MAN 1 Banjarnegara in the subject of Geography became the main trigger for the implementation of this research. The problem is allegedly rooted in the application of conventional instructional methods that still dominate the classroom, thus limiting students' intellectual mobility. As a solution, this Classroom Action Research (PTK) was initiated to evaluate the extent to which the Reciprocal Teaching model is able to escalate the dynamics of activities as well as the achievement of student learning outcomes through a more participatory approach.
In its implementation, this study takes two action cycles that integrate the four pillars of cognitive strategy, namely summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. In Cycle I, observations showed that student involvement was still held at a low to moderate level, with the classical completion rate only reaching 46.7%. Nevertheless, through deep reflection and strengthening collaboration in Cycle II, there was a significant spike in the intensity of interaction in the classroom. It was recorded that students' questioning activities increased drastically to the very high category (81%), which was directly proportional to the increase in learning completeness which reached 70%.
This success confirms that the paradigm shift, in which students take on the role of "teachers" to their peers, is effectively able to stimulate metacognitive independence and build their confidence. Comprehensively, the implementation of Reciprocal Teaching has succeeded in transforming the learning atmosphere into a more dynamic and in-depth ecosystem. These results prove that the target of process improvement and optimization of learning outcomes in Geography material has been completely fulfilled in the second cycle, so that no more intervention is needed in the next cycle.
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