A model for teaching morality in schools using Active Learning as a base.

Abstract

         This research article has 3 objectives: 1) to study the current state of morality teaching in schools, 2) to study the Active Learning learning-teaching process, and 3) to present a model of morality teaching in schools using Active Learning as a base. This is a qualitative research by studying data from documents and fieldwork and presenting the research in a descriptive analysis.

         The results of the research found that:

         The monks teach morality by lecturing by citing a particular Dhamma and explaining its meaning to the students and giving some examples. Furthermore, morality teaching in schools still takes the form of combining all classes in the last hour of the week (Home Room) and teaching by using activities such as chanting, meditation, and sermons. The Active Learning learning-teaching process is a process that focuses on the learners, does not force or cram knowledge into their heads, does not emphasize lecturing, but rather organizes learning processes or activities that take the learners to encounter a state that awakens or makes them realize from the inside out in order to create true learning value. The model of moral teaching in schools using Active Learning as a base is an integrated teaching of the Ti-sikkha, which is teaching in that period. The monks teaching morality must design activities for students to use morality, concentration, wisdom, or use their bodies, minds, and thoughts in that period. From the research study, it can be summarized into 3 steps: 1) the playing or activity step, 2) the debriefing step and presentation in both small groups and in front of the class, 3) the step of summarizing the content of the Dharma that was taught that time. If the monks teaching morality in schools use the model of moral teaching using Active Learning as a base to adjust or apply, it will result in greater efficiency in teaching Buddhism. Students will be able to understand and access the meaning of  Dhamma.