A SINAU TOURISM MODEL IN THEMATIC LEARNING OF PRIMARY SCHOOL IN MALANG INDONESIA TO OPTIMIZE THE LOCAL POTENTIALS

Abstract

Local excellence is everything that is the typical regionalism characteristic which includes economic, cultural, information and communication technology, ecology, etc. Exploiting the potential of local excellence is in line with the implementation of the thematic learning in the 2013 curriculum. Optimization of local potential excellence in thematic learning in primary schools was developed in a sinau tourism model. Therefore, this research was employing research and development. This current study was conducted in Muhammadiyah primary school in Malang Indonesia. The results of implementation of sinau tourism model based on local potential were: (1) the concept of sinau tourism model based on local potential as the support for thematic learning in 2013 curriculum is one of the learning models of excursions outside the classroom; (2) planning of the activities was carried out by preparing sinau tourism activities, including lesson plans, Student Worksheet (LKS), and evaluation sheets; (3) the learning process with the intended model was optimally running, and could foster active participatory, creativity, innovative courage and joy of students in learning; and (4) the constraint/challenge in sinau tourism activities was related to student activity sheet that has not described the intended models yet; and thus need to be further improved.