Efforts to Develop Students' Talents and Interests in the Arts Through Children's Dance Activities at Elementary Schools

This research is motivated by teachers and children in SD Negeri Wotan 02 in extracurricular activities, namely dance. The purpose of this study was to find out the processes and results involved in dancing activities for children at SD Negeri Wotan 02. This study used a qualitative research type with narrative analysis. The location of this research is at SD Negeri Wotan 02, precisely in Wotan Village, Dukuh Karanganyar, Sukolilo District, Pati Regency. The primary data sources are teachers and children participating in dance activities at SD Negeri Wotan 02. Secondary data sources come from research documentation, field notes and other supports. Data collection techniques used in this study were observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis used in this study consisted of data reduction, data presentation, and inference. Based on the results of the research and discussion conducted, it can be concluded that the children's dance activities at SD Negeri Wotan 02 can be further improved. This is because in the process of dance activities many children do not master the basic movements so that the elements in dance with the creativity of children can develop creative dance arts.

Computer communication networking is a very important topic in computer, electronics and communication education around the globe. Many students appear to think the subject technical and complex and this result in a low student engagement in these classes. Innovative teaching and learning strategies are needed to get the students interested in the subject. In this paper an activity based teaching and learning strategy is used to make the subject easy for understanding, to make the class interactive and increase student's interest in the topic. A dance activity was designed as an analogy to the OSI model of a communications system. To identify student perceptions of the activity, a survey was conducted of all students. The obtained results confirm that the students agree that this activity enables understanding and makes the learning process interesting. This perception is also confirmed by the attendance of students and the understanding demonstrated by them on classroom quizzes.

The composition is interpreted simply, namely regulating traditional dances, especially on floor patterns, directions, and level settings in the form of group dances. This dance composition is applied to prospective dance teachers to enhance their understanding and skills in dance composition, applied in creating children's dance compositions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the techniques of dance composition of children in prospective dance teachers to make children's dance works. This article is the result of research using an experimental method. The qualitative paradigm is a method of discourse analysis to synthesize theories and concepts of dance composition from seven figures, namely: Brenda McCutchen, Anne Gilbert, Alma Hawkins, Jacqueline Smith, Larry Lavender, and Eko Suprianto. The concept of creating traditional children's game-based compositions can be used as teaching material for creating children's dance for prospective dance teachers in elementary schools. Keywords: traditional game, children's dance, composition

The composition is interpreted simply, namely regulating traditional dances, especially on floor patterns, directions, and level settings in the form of group dances. This dance composition is applied to prospective dance teachers to enhance their understanding and skills in dance composition, applied in creating children's dance compositions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the techniques of dance composition of children in prospective dance teachers to make children's dance works. This article is the result of research using an experimental method. The qualitative paradigm is a method of discourse analysis to synthesize theories and concepts of dance composition from seven figures, namely: Brenda McCutchen, Anne Gilbert, Alma Hawkins, Jacqueline Smith, Larry Lavender, and Eko Suprianto. The concept of creating traditional children's game-based compositions can be used as teaching material for creating children's dance for prospective dance teachers in elementary schools. Keywords: traditional game, children's dance, composition

Education will be more meaningful if it is in accordance with children's talents and development. If talents can be recognized from an early age, it will be easier for children to reach the gates of success. This study aims to discuss educational dance programs that facilitate the identification of early childhood dance talents. This study used a qualitative method with data collection through observation, interviews, video documents, and reflection journals. The study was conducted on fifteen students aged 5-6 years in a kindergarten in the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. Findings of the study show that educational dance activity programs can make it easier for teachers and parents to identify early childhood dance talents. The audio-visual activities in the process of exploring dance movements make it easier for teachers and parents to identify early childhood dance talents compared to other movement stimuli. New approach to identify children's dance talents that can be used as a guide by teachers and parents in identifying and developing children's dance talents from an early age.

Studies on student interest on any given course has been given attention by a number of researchers. Usually, these studies focus on factors that influence student inclination to learn a course. Student interest in a course generates various outcomes, such as encouraging student performance, and this performance is measured through student participation in lectures, course-related activities, and student motivation and drive to study a course. For core university courses such as Islamic and Asian Civilisations or TITAS, a study on student interest in the subject is highly relevant. A highly-positive interest in the course will realise one of the significant aspects of the government agenda; to unite the multi-ethnic groups in Malaysia. Therefore, this study is conducted to measure the interest of students of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) towards TITAS. This study uses the quantitative research method, through descriptive analysis of student interest in TITAS, with questionnaires as the research instrument of choice. The findings show students have a very positive response to this course, thus proving that student enthusiasm and interest in learning the course is very high.

This research aims o determine the development of hand puppet media on the learning interest of class III at SDN 16 Sungai Pinyuh. The research method used is the (Risearch & Development) mehod, while the research model used is 4-D with the stages of designing, defining, developing and disseminating. The sample included in this research, namely class III students at SDN 16 Sungai Pinyuh, totaled 52 students consisting of 23 male and 29 famale. The validation technique used is a validation questionnaire for material experts and media experts. Data collection uses student response questionnaires and interest assessments. Data analysis techniques are used to determine the feasibility, practicality and effectiveness of hand puppet media. The research results show: 1) feasibility, 2) practicality, and 3) effectiveness. Media expert validation obtained a total score of 100% in the “very worthy” category. Meanwhile, material expert validation obtained a total score of 87,5% in the “very feasible” category. Field trials measure the practicality of the product through 3 stages, namely individual scale field tests, small scale field tests and large scale field tests. With student response quentionnaires the average total score 98.0% in the “very practical” category. Meanwhile, field trials to measure effectiveness only used large-scale field tests and the effectiveness field tests obtained an overall test score of 4,0 in the “very effetive” category. With the media developed by researchers created to help the enthusiasm of students who lack interest in learning so they can achieve the desired learning goals. The conclusion is that hand puppet media is feasible, practical and effective to be used as a learning medium for the theme 3 Objects Around Me in Class III in Elementary School.

Media Known as a teaching tool that must be used by teachers, but is often ignored. There is no media used in the learning process, but generally it is done for various reasons. In the learning process, teachers must use media as a tool to make it easier for students to understand the material, but it is often ignored. In the learning process there is no media, but in general it is done because of reasons. There are many causes, for example in the limited learning time prepared, in finding media that is difficult to match and not available, and so on. The cause of the low interest in learning students in Islamic religious education subjects, low performance of educators so that it is less conducive. Although in schools that do not have an Islamic nuance, but in the curriculum there are Islamic religious education subjects, in delivering the material the educator is less affective so that students have a lack of interest in learning. This study aims to determine how the use of Audio visual learning media in Islamic Religious Education subjects affects learning interest at SDN Cihideung Udik 01 class VI A. This study uses quantitative methods. from the results of the study showed that the probability value of the audio-visual media variable is smaller than 0.05 and t count is greater than t table (15.208> 2.048). So it can be concluded that (X1) audio-visual media has a positive and significant effect on (Y) learning interest in students of SDN Cihideung Udik 01 Class VIA Kab Bogor. the F count value is 231.272 with a significance of 0.000. Because the level of significance is smaller than 0.05 and F count is greater than F table (231.272> 4.20). Then H0 is rejected, so it can be said that audio-visual media has a significant effect on learning interest.

Purpose - this study aims to determine the relationship between self-concept of reading with reading interest in elementary school students; to determine the relationship between perceptions of parental involvement with reading interest in elementary school students; and to find out the relationship between self-concept of reading and perceptions of parental involvement in stimulants with reading interest. Methods - This research uses a correlational quantitative method. In this study, researchers used a scale, there are reading interest scale, the scale of self-concept reading, and the scale of perception of parental involvement. The sample in this study was 47 elementary school students. The sampling technique used purposive sampling with the characteristics of male and female students of elementary school, grades 3, 4 and 5, ages 8 to 11 years, living with parents and having good reading fluency. The analysis used is Pearson product moment correlation analysis and regression analysis. Findings - the results of the analysis show (1) There is a positive relationship between self-concept of reading with reading interest in students with a correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0.652 (p <0.01) with a contribution of 42.5%; (2) there is a positive relationship between the perception of parental involvement with reading interest in students with a correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0.697 (p <0.01) with a contribution of 48.6% and there is a relationship between the concept of self-reading and perception of parental involvement stimulants with interest in reading with a value of r = 0.690; F = 28,383; (p <0.01) with a contribution of 56.3% to interest in reading. The score of reading interest category is in the medium category with 83.00%, while the self-concept reading variable is in the high category with 59.70% and the perception variable of parental involvement is in the medium category with 93.00%. The findings of this study indicate that the importance of parental involvement and reading self-concepts in students increases student reading interest.

Every human being is born with talents according to their respective interests, so that the development of students in educational institutions is not only in the academic field, but in the development of talents. The teacher's role in developing student talents is to accommodate all forms of student talents, provide a place to accommodate student talents, and provide positive motivation to students. Data collection was carried out at SDN Singonegaran 1 Kediri with a qualitative method, namely by interviewing the person in charge of talent development activities. SDN Singnegara 1 Kediri has talent development activities, namely creative demonstration activities which are held every Saturday. Each class must perform one performance per week. Seen from every week, the enthusiasm of students is increasing, this is because the self-confidence of students has started to be high. The purpose of this activity is to accommodate and develop students' talents and interests, besides that this activity also aims to train students' self-confidence. Thus, this study aims to find out how educational institutions develop students' talents and interests, and this research will examine (1) program planning for creative demonstration activities at SDN Singonegaran 1 Kediri by setting all objectives for these activities, (2) Organizing in the implementation of creative demonstration activities at SDN Singonegaran 1 Kediri, (3) Actuating of implementing the creative demonstration activity program at SDN Singonegaran 1, (4) Controlling of activities carried out to evaluate program activities so that they continue to run according to the predetermined plan.

The lecture method is very disliked by today's students. The tendency of teachers to use this method often makes students sleepy in class, as a result, learning objectives will not be achieved and have an impact on students' interest in learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the development of interactive learning videos in increasing students' interest in learning. The research method used is the research and development method (Research and Development). The results of the study showed that the content of the material and handling of problems by material experts were very valid with a percentage of 91% (very valid), while the results of the feasibility of interactive learning media reached 95% (very valid). The response of students to the interactive learning video individual test was 93% (very practical) while in the field test it reached 92% (very practical) while the results of student learning interest based on the questionnaire that had been distributed reached a percentage of 93%. The effectiveness of interactive learning videos on economic activity material with learning completeness of 66% with a very high effectiveness category. It can be concluded that interactive learning videos have proven to be effective in increasing students' interest in learning.

Learning enthusiasm among elementary school students often declines due to fatigue, monotonous teaching methods, and limited classroom activity variation. This condition poses a serious challenge for teachers in maintaining students’ motivation and engagement throughout the learning process. One strategy to address this issue is Ice Breaking, which consists of simple refreshing activities such as educational games, motivational chants, or light physical movements carried out during lessons to ease the atmosphere, restore concentration, and foster learning enthusiasm. This study aims to analyze the implementation of Ice Breaking in enhancing the learning enthusiasm of fourth-grade students at SDN 1 Labuapi. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation, involving the classroom teacher and fourth-grade students as research subjects. The findings reveal that Ice Breaking has a positive impact on increasing student participation, reducing boredom, and strengthening social interaction between teachers and students. Students showed enthusiastic responses; their facial expressions became more cheerful, active, and focused after the activities. Teachers also reported that Ice Breaking helped manage previously less conducive classes into more orderly and enjoyable learning environments. These results are consistent with previous studies emphasizing the importance of addressing students’ emotional and psychological aspects in creating meaningful learning experiences. Therefore, Ice Breaking can be recommended as an effective and innovative learning strategy in elementary schools, particularly for sustaining students’ motivation and enthusiasm for learning.

The purpose of this study to determine the interest in entrepreneurship and factors inhibiting entrepreneurship for students. The study was conducted on Education courses State University Of Medan Building Engineering, Faculty of Engineering in 2019. The research method is a method of ex post facto. The sampling technique is purposive random sampling and using Taro Yamane formula. Sample of 118 students who have attended entrepreneurship courses. The instrument used was a closed questionnaire Likert scale with a reliability coefficient of 0.90 and for the deepening of the data used an open questionnaire. The data analysis technique used descriptive statistics. Results found is the tendency of student interest in entrepreneurship Building Engineering Education courses classified as high category (66%), and 2.54% of the students have entrepreneurship. The high interest in entrepreneurship students also reflected on the desire of students to start college entrepreneurship (20.34%). Nevertheless, interest in entrepreneurship students of Building Engineering Education will remain a concern professors and functionaries in the Faculty of Engineering make efforts to increase student interest in entrepreneurship because there is still a 34% student interest in entrepreneurship classified as a low category. The results of this study are very beneficial to universities and professors to improve the quality of teaching entrepreneurship courses.

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of extracurricular activities to develop students' talents and interests in the arts at MI Darul Ulum 02. The research method is descriptive qualitative research. Data collection techniques were carried out through interviews, observation and documentation. The existing data is analyzed by performing data reduction and concluding the data. The results of this study are that the implementation of extracurricular dance is carried out by students from grade I to grade IV. The songs used use dolanan songs such as jaranan, cublak-cublak suweng, and mushrooman. The supporting factors in this study were that students felt happy and enthusiastic in carrying out dance activities. The inhibiting factor is that some students have difficulty understanding the material that has been delivered by the trainer. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate and add hours in the implementation of extracurricular dance activities.

Online learning is alternative learning that can be used so that teaching and learning activities can still be carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, online learning activities have several obstacles that cause a decrease in interest in learning from some students. Interest in learning is the interest and willingness of one's soul to carry out activities happily to affect changes in knowledge, skills, and behavior. The problem related to this research is the decline in interest in learning for Elementary School Teacher Education students in online learning for the Basic Social Sciences Elementary Concepts course. This study aimed to analyze the factors that influence student interest in learning in the Basic Social Sciences Elementary School Concepts during online learning. This article uses descriptive qualitative data collection techniques, namely interviews and observations of 2nd-semester students of class 2D Primary School Teacher Education study program. The data analysis technique used the Milles and Huberman model with data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing stages. The results showed that out of 10 students, 2 students' interest in learning was stable, while the other 8 students' interest in learning decreased. The factors that influence student learning interest are 1) Internet networks, 2) Media and Learning Resources, 3) Communication between Lecturers and Students, and 4) Environment. This study concludes that online learning affects student interest in learning, especially in the Basic Social Sciences Basic Concepts subject for Elementary School.