Mengembangkan Karakter Anak Usia Dini melalui Kegiatan Menyanyi Diiringi Musik Pada Kelompok B TK Kuncup Melati Putih Surabaya

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Menurut Permendiknas No. 58 Tahun 2009 tingkat perkembangan anak usia 5-6 tahun seharusnya sudah bisa mengungkapkan perasaannya, tapi pada kenyataannya dilapangan masih banyak anak yang belum bisa memahami perasaan orang lain. Cara   mengatasinya   dengan  kegiatan  Bernyayi diiringi Musik.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendiskripsikan penggunaan kegiatan bernyanyi diiringi musik dapat mengembangkan karakter anak Kelompok B TK Kuncup Melati Putih Surabaya.

Penelitian ini menggunakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) yang dirancang dalam bentuk siklus berulang. Setiap siklus terdiri atas 4 tahap, yaitu perencanaan, pelaksanaan, pengamatan dan refleksi. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah anak Kelompok B TK Kuncup Melati Putih.S adalah sebanyak 25 anak terdiri atas 10 anak perempuan dan 15 anak laki-laki. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini adalah  observasi dan dokumentasi, sedangkan  teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis statistik deskriptif.

Berdasarkan hasil penelitian pada siklus I menunjukkan bahwa perkembangan karakter anak 45 %. Hal ini menunjukkan penelitian tindakan kelas ini belum berhasil karena kriteria tingkat pencapaian perkembangan anak sebesar 90%, sehingga penelitian  berlanjut pada siklus II. Hasil penelitian pada siklus II menunjukkan perkembangan karakter anak sudah meningkat sebesar 92%. Berdasarkan hasil analisis  tersebut dapat disimpulkan  bahwa  kegiatan  menyanyi diiringi  musik dapat   mengembangkan  karakter  pada   kelompok B  TK Kuncup   Melati  Putih  Surabaya.

Kata Kunci: Karakter anak, menyanyi diiringi music

ABSTRACT

One of the problems faced at Kuncup Melati Putih kindergarten Surabaya is not all B group children can pass the developing process well. The problems are found in their physical, cognitive, and language developments. Moreover, their social emotional shows the problems, such as they often fights, less polite in speaking, uncontrolled emotion which makes them easy to show their anger and they cannot control their emotion. When they do the mistake, they do not want to apologize, they seem do not want to care about what have been done. In the learning process at classroom, they show that their learning process get the problem, especially in controlling their emotion or adapt with their new environment. Therefore the singing activity by using music is applied and is expected to improve children's characters.

This research aims to describe the use of singing activities by using music which can develop children's characters at B group of Kuncup Melati Putih kindergarten Surabaya.

This research uses a classroom action research which is conducted by the teacher in the classroom tluough self reflection. It aims to improve learning process and children's study result. The classroom action research is conducted at Kuncup Melati Putih kindergarten Surcbaya in two cycles. Each cycle consists of two meetings.

The result of the research in the first cycle is the children's characters development is improved for 50% among all of the children. It is because the children do not understand the content of the song and the teacher is lack of focusing on the song lyrics. It makes the children's characters development cannot be seen. The result in the second cycle is improved. The children's characters development is increased for 92%. Therefore, the research does not need to be continued to the next cycle because it has achieved the expected target.It can be concluded that singing activities by using music can improve children's characters development at B group of Kuncup Melati Putih kindergarten Surabaya.

Keywords :  Children's characters, singing by using music.