PROJECT BASED LEARNING: BEST PRACTICE AND OPTIMALIZING STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY OF TEACHER TRAINING FOR ISLAMIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Project based learning can organize students have sense-making in every learning process. In fact, it is also a support for a project or assignment from each learning unit completed by students and makes the project or task more focused. This study describes the best practices of project based learning and optimizing student creativity of islamic elementary School or elementary school teacher training program. This research applies experimental research with One-shot Case Study design. Students of Teacher Ttaining for Islamic elementary school State Islamic University of Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi are the subjects or samples studied in this study. The application of the project based learning method is done by making products from science learning materials. The results of student work in the form of menu presentations and reports. Product presentations by students are reviewed and used as a measure of students' creative thinking level in creating balanced menus. The instrument used is a product observation sheet. The data is analyzed based on the creative thinking scale which is used as a value in the creative design process of a project. The results of the study also found that the use of project based learning can optimize student creativity which is in the very high category. Even during presentations, students are able to develop their ideas in their own and simpler language so that they are clear and easy to understand. Another impact of the implication or application of the project-based learning model is that students become active and creative, both when looking for ideas and conveying those ideas.