Improving Basic Teaching Skills of Students by Implementation of Lesson Study-Based Demonstration Method

Abstract

Basic teaching skills is an important skill to support the pedagogical competency of teacher. Student of education program have to mastery the basic teaching skills due to preparation as a teacher. This study is a classroom action research, which aims to implement lesson study-based demonstration method as an effort to improve Biology Education student’s basic teaching skills. Subject of this study is students of Education Biology Program Offering A year 2017/2018 of Universitas Negeri Malang (n=15). This study conducted in two cycles and consisted of eleven basic teaching skills. Data were collected by using basic teaching skills observation sheet, consist of basic teaching skills indicators. This instrument is given to six observers. Data of average score were analyzed descriptively to compare the result of cycle I to cycle II. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of lesson study-based demonstration method improve Biology Education student’s basic teaching skills, especially skilled in free-discussion teaching (average score is 90.5).