An implementation of open-ended approach with TPS (Think Pair Share) to improve creative thinking skills for student of class VII-B of SMP Negeri 9 Malang

Abstract

One of the special skills needed in the 21st century is creative thinking skills. Creative thinking skills is a thinking process that leads to new ways of understanding. One of the approaches that can improve creative thinking skills is open-ended approach. Another factor that influences the improvement of creative thinking skills is to conduct a learning activity using one of the learning models, namely TPS (Think Pair Share). In this research, we use open-ended approach with TPS to improve students’ creative thinking skills. The subjects of this research are students of class VII-B of SMP Negeri 9 Malang consisting of 33 students. This research uses classroom action research which consists of 2 cycles based on Kemmis and Mc Taggart models. The teacher’s actions that can improve students’ creative thinking skills are asking students to work on open-ended problems individually (Think), asking students to discuss in pairs (Pair), and appointing group representatives to present the results of the discussion in front of the class (Share). The result shows that the learning process by applying the open-ended approach with TPS can improve students’ creative thinking skills with evidence in the first cycle there are 33.3% of students in good category and in the second cycle there are 84.5% of students in good category.