Strategy of Snowball Throwing

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Kangogud.com - kang ogud lovers in this day we will review about Strategy of Snowball Throwing. Definition of Learning Strategy Snowball throwing as a whole can be interpreted throwing snowballs. In lessons snowball throwing, snowball is a paper containing questions made by students and then thrown to his own to answer. According bayor (2010), snowball throwing is one model of active learning (active learning) which in practice involves many students. The role of teachers here only as a landing early on the topic of learning and further, the control of the course of study.25

b. Strategy of Snowball Throwing

Snowball throwing method has several strategies that all involve and student participation in learning. Strategies in this method are as follows:

1) Teachers convey the material to be presented. Teacher divided some groups and calling each group leader to give an explanation of material.

2) And then, each group leader came back to the group it, then leaders explains material presented by the teacher to his friends.

3) Then each student is given a worksheet to write down any questions regarding the material which has been described by the group's leaders.

4) Then the paper is made into a ball and thrown from one student to another student for approximately 5 minutes.

5) After the student gets one ball / one question given the opportunity for students to answer questions written in ball-shaped paper interchangeably.

6) Evaluation

7) Conclusion.26

In the method of learning snowball throwing, this strategy is give priority to students can deepen of knowledge on learning than students can only remember the knowledge or learning.

c. Advantages and disadvantages of ST (Snowball Throwing) Method

These are several advantages and disadvantages of ST (Snowball Throwing) Method:

1) Advantages of ST

ST method has several advantages that are all involved and participation of students in learning. The advantages in this method are:

a) Learning environment for students like to play by throwing the paper ball to another student.

b) Students have the opportunity to develop the ability to think because they were given the opportunity to seek a hard question in question and given to other students.

c) Making students are prepared with various possibilities because students do not know the questions given to another groups.

d) Students are actively involved in learning

e) Educators are not too bothered to make media for students directly involved in the practice.

f) Learning becomes more effective.

g) Aspects of cognitive, effective and psychomotor

2) Disadvantages of ST

In addition there is an advantages of course ST method also has disadvantages. The downside of this method is as follows:

a) It depends on the ability of students to understand the material so that the students who mastered only slightly. It can be seen from about the selected students usually only about material already described, or as examples of questions that have been given.

b) The Chairman of the group who are not able to explain properly is certainly a barrier for other members to understand the material so that it can take a bit to the students to discuss the subject matter.

c) No quiz individual and group awards so students currently flocking less motivated to cooperate but did not rule out the possibility for teachers to add a quiz giving individual and group awards.

d) It takes a long time.

e) Pupils naughty tend to make trouble.

f) Classes are often noisy because of the group created by pupils.

However, weaknesses in the use of these methods can be covered in the following ways:

a) Teacher explains in advance the material that will be demonstrated briefly and clearly accompanied by the application

b) Optimizing time by giving a limitation in make a group and choose the questions.

c) Teachers participate in the making of the group so that the noise can be overcome.

d) Separating the group of children who are considered often make noise in different groups.

e) However, it also did not rule out the possibility for teachers to add a quiz giving individual and group awards.27

REFERENCE

Jumantan Hamdayama, Model dan Metode Pembelajaran Kreatifdan Berkarakter, (Bogor: Penerbit Ghalia Indonesia, 2014), p.158

Agus Suprijono, Cooperative Learning – Teoridan Aplikasi Paikem, (Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2009), p.147

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