Penerapan Project Based Learning untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Guru-Guru Sekolah Dasar Sidoarjo dalam Menulis Kreatif Cerita Anak

Abstract

This community service aims to enhance elementary school teachers’ literary literacy skills through children literature creative writing project. The training project designed was in line with the need of the inclusion of literary literacy in formal education particularly in primary educational level. The program was conducted by partnering with five elementaryschools under the management of Muhammadiyah Organizationin Sidoarjo. Each school registered their representative teachers to join the creative writing program which was held fromJuly until September 2019. The activity employed Project Based Learning in which the teachers were involved in children literature writing project. The training procedure was designed by implementing blended learning consisting 16-hour offline creative writing workshop and 32-hour online coaching session. The offline sessions were conducted to build the teachers’ basic knowledge on creative writing and children literature. The online coaching sessions facilitated the participants to consult their drafts and revise them based on the facilitator’s feedback. Measured by mastery learning assessment, 90% of participants (9 out of 10 participants) were successfully accomplished the writing project. For more, the participants agreed that this program was beneficial for them to enhance their knowledge on literary literacy and their writing ability to create children literary works like picture book and short story.

Keywords

• children literature creative writing
• project based learning
• teacher of elementary school