AN ANALYSIS ON CHARACTER EDUCATION INTEGRATED IN DOCUMENTS FOR TEACHING PREPARATION

Abstract

This study concerns with analyzing character education which is integrated in the documents for teaching preparation produced by students of Curriculum and Materials Development (CMD) class. In the academic year of 2011/2012, the character education begins to be applied in grade schools. As institution which prepares students to become teachers, the English Language Education Study Program OF Sanata Dharma University equips students with knowledge and practices on teaching skills as well as knowledge on English. Thus, as to give university students opportunity to apply their knowledge before going to schools, the study program trains them through some subjects, one of which is Curriculum and Materials Development (CMD). In this subject, they are trained to prepare teaching documents covering syllabus, lesson plan, and teaching materials. Since character education is also taught in CMD class, the teaching documents produced by the students must also carry the concept of character education. Therefore, this study aims at finding out how character education is integrated in students documents for their teaching preparation covering syllabus, lesson plan and materials and at identifying the students difficulties in integrating the character education. In trying to find the character education in the teaching documents and difficulties in integrating the character education, content analysis on the documents is employed. This study found that the integration of character education values was in the indicators and learning objectives. The most difficulty
was in the assessment on the character values.

Keywords: Character education, Documents for teaching preparations, Integrating, students difficulties