Teaching Media Research Paper

b. Teaching Media

Teaching Media is a tool that can be used to stimulate thoughts, feelings, concerns and abilities or skills of students in order to encourage teaching and learning the process. Briggs (1977: 10) stated that media are teaching on the physical means to convey the content / learning materials such as books, movies, videos and so on. Gagne (2006: 14) argues that the media are different types of components in the environment that can stimulate students to learn. The term media for learning is also called learning media. In the process of learning, tools or media can not only facilitate the communication process but can stimulate students to respond well every message delivered.

Teaching media that can be used in the hopscotch

We often play it.

Teacher: Right. In this time, we will play hopscotch game in the schoolyard.

Students: Oh, really, Ma’am? Yeah… Hooray… Teacher: I will explain the rules in hopscotch game. The rules in playing hopscotch are: 1. The player must not step on the lines of the grid while hopping. 2. Players must not hop in a square which has a stone in it 3. Players are able to place two hands on the ground to balance themselves when picking up their stone 4. If a player’s stone lands on a line when they are aiming for a square, then it is a liner. The player has another go. 5. If the player’s stone lands outside of the square they are aiming for, then it is the next player turn. The player must explain and describe the topic which is stored under their stone. The teacher will give some questions about the topic. If the player cannot describe or answer questions correctly, it is time to another player from another group to play, etc. Do you understand students?

Students: Sure. Ma’am.

Teacher: Good. Now, let’s begin our games. First, counting from number 1 until number 3. You will have the same group with your same number.

The first player throws a stone into the square. If the stone is inside the square, then when to play later, the player is not permitted to step on that square. The player hops and jumps pass the squares. After the player turns back from the last square when the player takes the stone that he may step in the square and takes the stone with one-foot stand. Meanwhile, the player has to explain about the topic on the square with one-foot stand and answer some questions that will be given by teachers. If the explanation is true, then he should finish the game and other members of his group then repeat the same things over. But if he gives the incorrect explanation, then the other group will continue to play the game. When all the players of the group finish their turn first, they will be a