Journal of Teaching and Learning in Elementary Education (JTLEE)
Vol. 1 No. 2 August 2018
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Printed in Indonesia
ISSN (Print) : 2615-4528
ISSN (Online) : 2622-3023
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Collaborative Reflection to Enhance Teachers’ Teaching Ability
Utilized Inquiry Model
Richa Widya Tani
1*
, M. Jaya Adi Putra
1
, Hendri Marhadi
1
1
PGSD, Universitas Riau, Indonesia
*richawidya17@gmail.com
Abstract
This research aims to explore the prospective teachers activities to enhance
teachers’ teaching skills utilized inquiry by perform reflective collaborative
activities between teachers, coaches and prospective teachers. Activities
reflection helps prospective teachers make improvements in the implementation
of tasks so that for further learning meetings prospective teachers can improve
teaching skills. Improved teaching ability to give impact on teacher activities and
students who experience improvement at each meeting so that it has an
influence on student learning outcomes. In understanding the concept of
students' average heat energy increased from the average base score of 64.91 to
76.22. In understanding the concept of average student sound energy from the
basic score to 81.72. The increase of learning result can be seen from the
average of N-Gain on the understanding of the concept of heat energy of 0.32
medium categories and on the understanding of energy concept of 0.47 medium
categories. This study concluded that the application of inquiry learning model
can improve science learning outcomes based on reflection by prospective
teachers.
Keywords: collaborative reflection, Inquiry learning model, teaching ability
1. INTRODUCTION
Science for students is to invite
students learn to reveal natural
phenomena by following scientific rules
so that science is needed in everyday
life in order to meet human beings
through various problems solving that
can be identified. Science learning is
not only memorizing concept but also
the students are trying to find the
concept. The science learning process
should be implemented scientifically to
foster the ability to think, work and be
scientific and communicate it as an
important aspect in life.
Science education in primary
schools is generally associated with
experiments that require skills, crafts,
ways of thinking, how to solve and
discover problems. Science is
considered an accumulation of various
knowledge that has been discovered
since ancient times until the discovery
of a very new knowledge. Knowledge in
the form of facts, concepts, theories,
and generalizations that explain about
nature (Sumaji, 2003).