The Use of Clinical Supervision As An Effort To Improve The Ability Of Civics Teachers In Understanding Study Materials At SMP Negeri 2 Kwandang

Abstract

Based on the description above, it is necessary to make efforts to improve the teacher's ability to understand the quality of teaching materials, as a strategy to optimize quality achievement results in the learning process. One of the efforts that can be made to improve the teacher's ability to understand the quality of teaching materials is to use a clinical supervision approach. The clinical approach is considered to have advantages because supervision supervision emphasizes efforts to develop teacher abilities based on teacher needs. Thus the awareness to develop skills in understanding teaching materials using a clinical supervision approach is based on the need for teachers to voluntarily come to supervisors to be fostered and develop their potential in mastering teaching materials.The results of observations on Civics teachers at SMP Negeri 2 Kwandangshows that the teacher's ability to understand teaching materials is not optimal. The tendency is that some teachers cannot carry out learning activities properly because they lack good mastery of teaching materials. Teachers are often only fixated on one source or book as a reference in developing student abilities. This is what makes learning activities less qualified and students only get limited material that is mastered by the teacher and the book that is the reference