Improving Early Childhood Teacher's Dance Ability in Traditional Dance through Sport Approach and Tutorial Video

摘要

The role of teacher in introducing and teaching traditional dance to early childhood is enormous. This study aimed to improve the early childhood teacher's dance ability in traditional dance through sport approach and tutorial video. This research used Classroom Action Research method. From the results, there was the improvement of early childhood teacher's dance ability in traditional dance from pre cycle with 50% to 64% in cycle 1, 76% in cycle 2, and 81% in Dance performance. So it can be concluded that the exercise method with sports approach and tutorial video can increase the early childhood teacher's dance ability in traditional dance, which was also as student of Early Childhood Education Programme, in Faculty of Education Science, Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta.