THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACEHNESE FOLKLORE TEACHING MATERIALS BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM TO BUILD THE CHARACTER OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LANGSA CITY

Abstract

This study aims to describe (1) the feasibility of teaching materials to write Acehnese folklore based on local wisdom, (2) to describe the learning outcomes of Class VII SMP students in Langsa City in folklore writing material with the development of teaching materials to write folk stories based on local wisdom. The type of this research is research and development based on the development model of Borg and Gall. The trial subjects consisted of material experts, design experts, Indonesian teachers, Class VII students of SMPN 1, SMPN 4, and SMPN 9 in Langsa. In individual trials consisted of 3 students, 10 students in small group trials, and 30 students in the training field group were limited to each school in Langsa City. The results showed that (1) the validation of material experts at each school: SMPN 1 Langsa with an average of 88.76%, SMPN 4 Langsa: 87.16%, and SMPN 9 Langsa: 82.01% in very good criteria, (2) design expert validation with an average of 83.71% on very good criteria, (3) average student learning outcomes before using teaching materials are 66.53, 63.00, 62.26 and average student learning outcomes after using teaching materials are 79.66 77 , 33, 73.00, and the effectiveness of teaching materials with a percentage of 79.12%, 77.05%, 73.78% with good criteria. Thus, teaching materials of writing Acehnese folk stories based on local wisdom that have been developed in SMPN Langsa are feasible to use in the learning process as a learning resource.