Since the enactment of the 2013 Curriculum in Indonesia, teachers are required to be able to integrate character education in physical education (PE) as a subject presented in the 2013 Curriculum. In the implementation, PE teachers have not entirely meet the demands of the 2013 Curriculum in terms material development, method, and evaluation that have not yet explored students' character. Therefore, this research aims at improving PE teacher physical education teachers' understanding and skills in developing national characters such as religious, nationalist, independent, mutual cooperation, and integrity. The action research report presented in this article exemplifies the results of the work of collaborative teams involved in making critical reflective steps in developing students' character through physical learning that has so far tended to have no value. The action implementation showed an improvement in the pedagogical competence of the teachers in developing five national characters through PE.
Making faithful and pious human as the manifestation of religious characters has become one of the demands in the 2013 Curriculum (K13) that is currently implemented in Indonesia. It implies that instilling religious character is not only the duty of religious teachers but also physical education (PE) teachers. The dichotomy of religious and non-religious sciences has an impact on the lack of understanding and ability of PE teachers in developing learning methods based on religious character development. Therefore, this research aims at improving the competence of PE teachers in developing learning based on religious values. This research employs action research design done in three stages namely the pre-action stage, implementation and action stage and the post-action stage by involving 30 PE teachers in Sumedang Regency. This research found that: 1) There was an increase in the understanding of PE teachers regarding aspects of religious character in learning (21%); 2) This increased understanding was shown by the success of teachers in growing students' behavior reflecting religiosity including behavior of faith and piety (88.67%), clean living behavior (88.89%), environment love behavior (88.89%) and behavior that reflects tolerance (87.78%); and 3) The success of PE teachers in developing religious character was based on the nine learning steps summarized as TADZKIROH acronym. These findings reveal that developing students' religious character in PE learning requires the teachers to understand and apply the TADZKIROH method.
To improve the skill in reading the Quran correctly, students need to be given skills in learning to read the Quran quickly and effectively so that they can know the Arabic alphabet well, pronounce it correctly, understand the elocution of reading, and understand its meaning well. The action research report presented in this journal article exemplifies the collaborative teamwork involved in making the reflective-critical steps to improve the students' skill from their initial state of being unable to read the Quran smoothly to being able to master its elocution. The subjects of the research were 126 second semester students of Nursing Study Program. The results of the actions showed an improvement in students' skill to read the Quran with a students' skill change rate that reached 90.20%, and with the success rate of students switching from the non-fluent category to the fluent category of reading the Quran that reached 65.08%.
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