4 th International Conference on Education September 25-26, 2019 “Innovation in Islamic Education: Challenges and Readiness in Society 5.0” 261 IMPROVING STUDENT SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE BY USING BEHAVIORAL REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION Tomi Sukardi, Syamsu Yusuf, Nandang Rusmana Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia tomisukardi@upi.edu ABSTRACT His papers discusses the Group Guidance Program Using Behavioral Rehearsal Techniques to Improve Student Social Intelligence. The main problem studied in this papers is how to improve the social intelligence of high school students using the Reheaarsal Behavioral technique. Social intelligence is the ability of humans or individuals to reach a maturity in consciousness thinking to act as social beings and do social interaction with others. To improve social intelligence, adolescents must pay attention to special interaction skills which include (1) having situational awareness. (2) Ability to bring oneself or presence in the environment, (3) authenticity, (4) clarity, (5) empathy. If adolescents cannot improve social intelligence, these adolescents will experience obstacles in their development, especially in the social field. The approach used in this study was to be able to improve students' social intelligence namely Behavioral with Behavioral Rehearsal techniques. Of the many counseling techniques that can be used to improve students' social intelligence, researchers decide to use the Rehearsal Behavioral technique. The reason researchers use this technique is because social intelligence is related to behavior caused by students in daily life, whereas the Behavioral Rehearsal technique is a type of behavioral therapy, therefore according to researchers this technique can change important behaviors into positive ones. The use of behavioral rehearsal techniques is expected to be applicable because the purpose of this technique is to generally create new conditions or new behaviors for learning, and the specific goal is for counselees to obtain new behaviors, which are trained in group guidance sessions and applied in daily life counselee. Keywords: Social Intelligence, Group Counseling, Behavioral Rehearsal Technique INTRODUCTION Individuals who are classified as late adolescents have many changes. Steinberg (in Indri, 2008, p. 3) suggests that adolescents aged 15-18 increase a lot of changes in cognitive, emotional, and social. They think they are more complicated, more emotional, more sensitive, and spend more time with friends. Santrock (2007, p. 20) states that in adolescence experiencing a transitional process that demands changes in the individual, such as biological, socio-emotional, and cognitive changes. Howard Gardner (2003) that one's intelligence includes elements of logical mathematical intelligence, language intelligence, musical intelligence, spatial visual intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, social intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. Kart Albrecht (2005) has five aspects of social intelligence, (1) national awareness, (2) presence, (3) authenticity, (4) clarity, and (5) empathy. Sujiono (2007, p. 17) explains that social intelligence will provide sharpness and clarity in looking at problems. May Lwin (2004, p. 199) The importance of developing social intelligence in adolescents, (1) To be a socially conscious and easily adaptable adult, (2) to be successful in work, (3) for emotional and physical well-being. This study the author decided to use Behavioral Rehearsal technique because this technique focuses on training the behavior of individuals who were negative to be positive and develop counselee social intelligence. Because social intelligence is also related to behavior or ways of communication in social relations. THEORITICAL REVIEW 1. Social Intelligence Social intelligence is a measure of one's ability in social relationships and the ability to interact socially with people around (Goleman 2007). ability that reaches maturity in the consciousness of thinking and acts to carry out the role of humans as social beings in establishing brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by E-Journal IAIN BATUSANGKAR