Application of Self-learning in Basic Teaching Skills at Vocational Program

Abstract

The application of self-learning in basic teaching skills at vocational program as the practice to the prospective of student teacher was conducted at Mechanical Engineering Education program Faculty of Teacher and Training Universitas Palangka Raya. The problem in the prospective student teacher in Mechanical of Engineering Education program in to the practice of basic teaching skills. Therefore, there is a need for a method to be carried out in this learning, while the purpose of this research is to apply self-learning in practicing basic teaching skills. The application of self-learning in teaching basic skills was carried out with self-evaluation, self-improvement and selfstrengthening. The self-evaluation activities were carried out by identification of his/her weakness and his/her strength itself of they do every basic teaching skills then they were do to the selfimprovement and self-strengthening. Self-learning of the prospective of student teachers through a questionnaire with the instruments have validity and reliability. They were analysed for the self-evaluation in basic teaching skills in category is very difficult and very easy with the self-evaluation forms. The do activities were carried out by practice on the basic teaching skills in the lesson Micro Teaching. The self-learning teacher's were observed by questioner analysed using qualitative descriptive .The result showed teacher's self-learning in basic teaching skills through description method on the lesson were "very difficult" is to attract students' attention (55,81%), clarity of the voice (53,48%), reflecting off the breadth of insight (48,84%), to attention principal of media" (54,5%), "use the assessment relevant to specific learning objectives" (65,46%), and to review of the lesson (34,88%). The choice of "very difficult" and "very easy" is an application from him self-learning and for the selfimprovement, they do choose to learn from the self-weakness. While for "very easy" their do for the self-strengthening.