Improving The Quality of Learning Service for Counseling Teachers and Subject Teachers Through Multimedia-Based Learning Training

Abstract

The Research and Service Program was created and developed for Guidance and Counseling teachers and Subject Teachers in SMP Muhammadiyah 01 Medan and SMP Muhammadiyah 04 Medan. This consists of training and workshops that produce group guiding practices using an experiential learning approach and based on instrumentation and information technology as a medium in implementing learning. Training and workshops are aimed at improving teacher competencies in analyzing student needs and problems, building valid and reliable instruments, developing computer-based information and multimedia technology guides, using multimedia to present topics / guidance material, and designing group guidance activities using dynamic processes. group. Competency development will produce a paradigm shift in service guidelines and approaches, namely guiding non-teaching. The training included analysis of student needs and problems as well as multimedia-based learning processes. The workshop included the construction of instruments, information technology and computer use that were not used in the guidelines, and the development of the Classical Guidance and Learning Service Unit (SPBK). Teacher competency enhancement is manifested in: (1) twenty topics in four areas of guidance with material developed using information technology; (2) four learning instruments (Learning Habit Scale, Self Understanding and Self Acceptance Scale, Communication Capability Scale, and Attitude to Job Scale), and (3) SPBK uses experiential learning approaches.