The Mentoring of Textbooks Writing for the Facilitators of Junior High School Red Cross

摘要

Textbooks in learning activities have important functions, namely as reading material for students. A good book for students is a book written by the educator. Youth Red Cross (PMR) trainers who are educational staff for PMR members also have the task of developing textbooks. This mentoring activity aims to improve the understanding and ability writing textbooks of the facilitators of Junior High School Red Cross Malang City East Java Indonesia. The participants of the program mentoring are 29 PMR facilitators. The approach used in this activity is classical and individual. Test questions are used as instruments to measure participants' understanding, given before and after the training is conducted. Data were analyzed by: descriptive analysis and paired sample t test. The results of the descriptive analysis revealed that there was an increase in the mean score from the pretest score (9.38) with posttest (16.72) of 7.34. Based on the results of the analysis of paired samples, there were differences in participants' understanding before and after taking part in mentoring.