DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIAL FOR INDONESIAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION BASED ON SCIENTIFIC LEARNING TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Abstract

Creativity and innovation in Indonesian Language Education for Primary School Teacher Education students in State University of Makassar needs to be developed. When conducting scientific learning activities, it is necessary to develop teaching material that can enhance students’ creativity and innovation. This requires scientific-based teaching materials that can be used in learning. The formulation of the problem in this research is (1) Can scientificbased teaching materials be able to foster creativity and innovation in learning Indonesian Language Education for PGSD students in UNM? (2) are scientific based teaching materials effectively used to foster students’ creativity and innovation? The research objective is to develop teaching materials for Indonesian language education based on scientific learning and to foster PGSD students’ creativity and innovation. The research used Quantitative research approach with the type of research development. This research involved 20 students in the sixth semester. Test and observation were used as research instruments. Data analysis technique used was descriptive analysis. The results of the study showed that the creativity and innovation of students in Indonesian Language Education courses based on scientific learning showed very good category. The results of the analysis on the effectiveness and the efficiency of the teaching materials based on students’ achievement on scientific based learning materials were in the Very Good category. It can be concluded that scientificbased Indonesian language teaching materials can assist lecturers in carrying out the teaching process that can foster PGSD students’ creativity and innovation in State University of Makassar.