OPTIMIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL DEMONSTRATION TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE TEACHERS’SKILL TEACHING WITH COOPERATIVE MODEL AT SMP MAARIF 5 METRO ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
AbstractAt Junior High School (known as SMP) Maarif 5 Metro, routine supervision conducted by researcher as the supervisor found that most of the teachers still carried out instructional process in a traditional way. Teachers practiced their class without making their own lesson plan. They had tendency to apply existed print out lesson plan and failed to do cooperative instruction. The instructional process was categorized low quality and the teachers’performance in teaching were not focusing on students centered with optimum cooperative model. The aim of the research were to improve supervisor’s ability in implementing academic supervision throughdemonstrationand to improve teachers’performance of SMP Maarif 5 Metro practicing cooperative model in their classes in Academic Year 2015/2016.Subjects of the research were the teachers of SMP Maarif 5 Metro, there were 12 teachers involved, and divided into three groups. The object of the research was teachers’performance in applying various cooperative instructional methods. At the same time, the supervisor ability in implementing group supervision technique through demonstration technique. The research was done at odd semester, for four months, from July to September 2015.The researcher concluded that teachers’performance in implementing cooperative model at SMP Maarif 5 Metro could be improved through the optimization of demonstration technique. Findings support the conclusion are 58% sufficient category at cycle I reduced to 31% at cycle II. Good category 69% at cycle I increased to 83% at cycle II. Very good category increased to 17%. Some respondens, who previously disagreed, agreed that supervisors’performance was very good. It was so because good predicate became 58% and very good predicate became 42% from 0%. Key Words : Supervision, Demonstration, Cooperative
