Perspective Chapter: The Efforts to Increase Students’ Understanding of Prayer through the Use of Audiovisual Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Elementary Schools

Abstract

Sholat is worship obligatory for every Muslim , so it should be taught to children as early as possible with the correct movement and reading the correct as corresponding guidance of the Prophet Muhammad. In the Covid-19 pandemic situation , learning is hampered by many problems including the loss of face - to – face activitis , intense interaction between teachers and students, as well as habituation of prayer which is hampered in its implementation at school . Audio-visual media is the choice in learning this Sholat, where grade I children are still at an early age and tend to prefer visual (real) things, pay attention to movements in videos and are expected to be easy to imitate. It is believed to be able to replace habituation in school who do it directly . The activities of this can be done by using the facilities zooming meetings and the use of other media socials . The method that is used is the research of action class , the background behind the research in class I SD Ar -Rahman Motik , South Jakarta. The purpose of this research is focused on improving the understanding of Sholat in first grade elementary school students, with sub focus on how to use audio-visual media in learning prayer , and how students' understanding of prayer readings is related to reading and its functions . The action performed by the first advance perform activities of pre- cycle to assess the ability of the student before using audio-visual media, then the first cycle, child is taught to pray by using audio-visual media. Results of the study showed the increase from before the use of audio-visual media to after it was used. . That is 11% good , and 89% the ability to read the Sholat readings is sufficient and less . 5% good and 95% of children's ability to perform prayer movements is sufficient and less , the figure is still below the KKM ( Minimum Completeness Criteria ) after the action is carried out the result is an increase , namely , 94% good (39% good and 55% very good ). As for the Sholat movement, 100% good (39% good , 61% very good ) even though there are 6% or 1 child who is considered to be lacking in prayer readings . But as a whole 80% already meet the criteria so that the cycle II is not required .