Teaching Style Used By Teachers In A Private Junior High School In Salatiga

Abstract

This study aims to identify the teaching styles used by teachers at private junior high school in Salatiga. The design of this research is descriptive quantitative in the form of survey study. There were 32 teachers who were willing to participate in this research. The research instrument was the Grasha-Riechmann Teaching Style Survey (1996). The questionnaire has 5 domains and 40 items. Based on the results of the study, the highest score statement is the Personal Model teaching style (Mean=4.04). While the statement with the lowest score is the Facilitator's teaching style (Mean=3.54). The individual results of the questionnaire shows that the highest score is Q1 from Expert that states "Facts, concepts, and principles are the most important things that students should acquire." (Mean=4.34), while the lowest score is Q7 from Expert that states "I give students negative feedback when their performance is unsatisfactory." (Mean=2.00). From these results, it implies that teachers at private junior high school in Salatiga are more dominant in using the Personal Model teaching style than the Facilitator teaching style. The teachers can improve and combine several teaching style and develop teaching materials according to students' needs in achieving competency standards and basic competencies. During the learning process, it is expected that teachers convey material clearly, easily understood and not boring by applying several variations of teaching styles.