Creativity of Physical Education Teachers in Modifying Learning Facilities and Infrastructure in Public Elementary Schools

The lack of learning facilities and infrastructure often results in problems and nuisance in the process of physical education learning, but it cannot be denied that the availability of standard learning facilities and infrastructure can also be said to be less proper to conduct physical education learning, especially when the standard facilities and infrastructure are utilized in the learning process with elementary school students as the participants. This research is aimed at revealing the creativity levels of civil-servant physical education teachers in modifying the learning facilities and infrastructure used in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict, Bantul Regency, Indonesian country. The research was a descriptive quantitative study. The subjects of the research were 23 physical education teachers in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict. The method used in the study was survey with the employment of questionnaire as the technique of data collection. Questionnaire was tested to 21 civil-servant physical education teachers excluding the population. Validity was tested using Product Moment formula proposed by Karl Pearson, and reliability was tested using Cronbach Alpha. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.746. The data were analyzed using descriptive percentage technique. The results of the research reveal that the creativity levels of civil-servant physical education teachers in modifying learning facilities and infrastructure in public elementary school in Sewon Subdistrict are: in the category of “very low” with 9.09% (2 teachers), in the category of “low” with 22.72% (5 teachers), in the category of “average” with 40.90% (9 teachers), in the category of “high” with 22.72% (5 teachers), and in the category of “very low” with 4.54% (1 teacher). Therefore, it can be concluded that the creativity of civil-servant physical education teachers in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, is in “average” category.

Creativity of Physical Education Teachers in Modifying Learning Facilities and Infrastructure in Public Elementary Schools

The lack of learning facilities and infrastructure often results in problems and nuisance in the process of physical education learning, but it cannot be denied that the availability of standard learning facilities and infrastructure can also be said to be less proper to conduct physical education learning, especially when the standard facilities and infrastructure are utilized in the learning process with elementary school students as the participants. This research is aimed at revealing the creativity levels of civil-servant physical education teachers in modifying the learning facilities and infrastructure used in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict, Bantul Regency, Indonesian country. The research was a descriptive quantitative study. The subjects of the research were 23 physical education teachers in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict. The method used in the study was survey with the employment of questionnaire as the technique of data collection. Questionnaire was tested to 21 civil-servant physical education teachers excluding the population. Validity was tested using Product Moment formula proposed by Karl Pearson, and reliability was tested using Cronbach Alpha. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.746. The data were analyzed using descriptive percentage technique. The results of the research reveal that the creativity levels of civil-servant physical education teachers in modifying learning facilities and infrastructure in public elementary school in Sewon Subdistrict are: in the category of “very low” with 9.09% (2 teachers), in the category of “low” with 22.72% (5 teachers), in the category of “average” with 40.90% (9 teachers), in the category of “high” with 22.72% (5 teachers), and in the category of “very low” with 4.54% (1 teacher). Therefore, it can be concluded that the creativity of civil-servant physical education teachers in public elementary schools in Sewon Subdistrict, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, is in “average” category.

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