THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ‘MAKE A MATCH’ TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN LEARNING HISTORY

Abstract

These days condition of history education may not be able to assist students to figure out the correlation of those points with present and future life. From elementary to high school, history education tends to make use of historical facts as the main material. To anticipate further problem, teachers should keep on arrange and set various approaches. One of them is make a match method.This method starts by asking students to match cards consisting of questions or answers before certain amount of time, and those who can find the matches will earn points. This research draws on Mixed Method Designs, or a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. This decision is based on the expectation to deliver sufficient results for detailed description and more comprehensive understanding. Based on the result of data processing and analysis, it can be concluded that: Firstly, every teacher must have at least four competencies to perform as an educator; professional competence, pedagogic competence, personal competence and social competence. Secondly, from the study on grade XI of social science, it can be concluded that teaching and learning process with ‘make a match’ method does not give sufficient contribution on students’ performance. Nonetheless, it gives noteworthy effects on students’ attitude and interest as they show active, creative, and innovative actions in the process of teaching and learning history. Thirdly, there are some obstacles in implementing ‘make a match’ method in teaching and learning activity. Some of them are related to the allocation of time, students’ motivation, students’ uncooperative response, and teacher’s inefficient competence in the process, so that the teacher is not