Teaching media is a tool used by teachers when teaching to help clarify
the subject matter presented to students, and prevent the occurrence
of verbal self-student. Teaching is much use of verbal, would be
boring, instead of teaching would be more interesting if the students
delighted in learning, or pleased because he felt attracted to and
understand the lessons he received. Thus, learning activities will be
more effective.
Effective learning must begin from direct experience
or experience in the concrete and toward a more abstract experience.
Learning will be more effective if assisted with the props in teaching
than in unassisted with a teaching tool. In order for teaching and
learning process can work well, students should be encouraged to
utilize all the tools senses. The teacher tried to show the stimulus
(stimulus), which can be processed in many senses. The more sensing
devices used to receive and process information, the more likely the
information is understandable and can be maintained in memory.
Hamalik
(1986) pointed out that the use of teaching media in teaching and
learning can generate new desires and interests, to encourage
motivation and stimulation and learning activities, and even brought a
psychological influences on students.
Thus, students are expected to
be able to receive and absorb easily and good messages in the material
presented. To take advantage of all sense organ senses in learning
activities needed stimulus (stimulus). While such stimuli can real with
the use of visual aids in education. Figure in teaching can be called
by the media of instruction.
This is confirmed by Arsyad (2003), who
said that, teaching and learning activities using the media said the
teaching was replaced by terms such as tool of view heard, teaching
materials, communication of view heard, educational teaching aids of
view, educational technology, teaching aids, and media explanatory .
The development of science and technology increasingly encourage
renewal efforts in the utilization of technology results in the
learning process. Teachers are required to use tools that could be
provided by the school, did not rule out that such instruments in
accordance with the developments and demands of the times. Teachers
must be able to use cheap and efficient tool that is simple and
unpretentious though it is a necessity in order to achieve the expected
objectives of teaching (Arsyad, 2003).
For that in using the medium
of teaching teachers should have sufficient knowledge and
understanding about the medium of teaching, such as what is conveyed by
Hamalik (1994), that the teaching of teachers in using the media must
understand about: (1) media as a communication tool to further
streamline the process of learning teaching, (2) the functions of the
media in order to achieve educational goals, (3) the nitty gritty of
the process of learning, (4) the relationship between teaching methods
with educational media, (5) the value or benefits of media education in
teaching, (6) selection and use of media education, (7) different types
of educational media tools and techniques, (8) media education in each
subject, and (9) business innovation in education.
Reality-phenomena
mentioned above, encourage researchers to conduct an action research
(action research) in teaching and learning activities by using the
medium of teaching at the junior high school students of class VII.
Some reasons for the importance of teaching media used in teaching and
learning activities in this action research, are: (1) with the medium
of teaching students to learn will be more concrete and not verbal, (2)
students have more motivation in learning, because the medium of
teaching, learning activities will more attractive, (3) is more varied
learning activities, (4) students can conduct learning activities
themselves faced with teaching media, and (5) with the medium of
teaching and learning activities of students would be more ideas
students bring to everyday life.
With a classroom action research
conducted by researcher, then emerged a few problems in this research
activity. Why teaching is very important media used in an effort to
increase interest in student learning in a series of teaching and
learning activities.
With the media uses in teaching and learning
activities to teach the students, in the delivery of the subjects
became more standardized. Each student who saw or heard the
presentation through the media receive the same message, even though the
teacher to interpret the contents of the lesson with different ways,
with a range of media use that interpretation results can be reduced so
that the same information can be conveyed to students as a foundation
for assessment, training, and further applications.
2. Teaching is
more interesting, because the clarity and message, appeal an arbitrary
image can lead students to analyze and think, all of which indicate
that the media has the aspects of motivation and increase student
interest in learning.
3. During the progress of teaching and
learning activities, learning more interactive and interesting, because
time teaching requires only a short time in delivering the lesson
content of the messages in sufficient quantity and students can absorb
many contents in an optimal learning.
4. With the use of teaching
media in teaching and learning activities on students, tasks and roles
of teachers towards a more positive change. That means loads of
teachers to explain the repeated lessons about the content can be
reduced and even eliminated so that teachers can concentrate on other
important aspects in teaching and learning
