Teaching and Learning Management of Social Studies, Religion and Culture Teachers by Using a Collaborative Learning Method Teaching and Learning Management of Social Studies, Religion and Culture Teachers by Using a Collaborative Learning Method

Abstract

The learning core of Social Studies, Religion, and Culture is very important subjects about humans and the environment, because it is absolutely necessary for learners with various process and skills that can be applied in daily life, directly relating to the environment and nature. The world society had evolved and changed rapidly all the time. Therefore, it has to be promoted and developed the academic skills to help learners gain knowledge and understand how the human beings can live in the present. In an individual life and coexistence in society, there were the good adaptation to the environment management of the limited natural resources, cooperative teaching and learning management. It is a formation of activity with an important option in teaching and learning to manage the classroom and students could work in groups among 2-5 persons, because they could participate in activities learning with learning by doing as a student-centered instructional management (Child Center), modifying the teaching and learning process so that the learners have the desired characteristics. The learning management had to allow students to show the critical-thinking, synthetic-thinking and creative learning so that it will be the good basis for the future. Teachers could encourage students to learn by themselves, adding the skills of team work, communication skills to create the knowledge and understand themselves and others, acceptance of individual differences, and the learners had morality and ethics in order to develop the learners' potential by instructors who having to rely on skills, techniques, methods, strategies, sciences and various forms for organizing the learning process, encouraging students to develop themselves physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually until learners could use their own knowledge and skills for the maximum benefit.