Learning Cycle 5E: an Attempt to Improve Creative Thinking Skills' Pre-service Primary School Teachers An Classroom Action Research

Abstract

The research aim is to improve the creative thinking skills through the 5E Learning Cycle Model and use the Kemmis & McTaggart design classroom action research approach on 44 Pre-service Primary School Teachers in Yogyakarta who have low creative thinking skills in 1 cycle with two meetings. As a result, the pre-service teachers' creative thinking skills increase with details: the mean test results of students' creative thinking skills increased from 57, 14 in pretest to 62, 17 in meetings 1 and 72, 24 in meeting 2. The improvement of creative thinking skills indicators is: Fluency indicator increased from 66% to 67% in meeting 1 and 68% in meeting 2. Flexibility increased from 73% to 83% in meeting 1 and 84% in meeting 2. Originality increased from 30% to 40% in meetings 1 and 43% in meeting 2. Elaboration increased from 47% to 48% in meeting 1 and 59% in meeting 2. The main activities in the 5E Learning Cycle model that supports efforts to increase the creative thinking skills is recalling pre-service teachers' initial knowledge, activities to plan hypotheses and problem formulations at the engagement step, literature exploration and trial activities in exploration step, as well as discussion and presentation of results in explanation. This research concludes that the 5E Learning Cycle model improves creative thinking skills by maximizing the activities of developing hypotheses, planning problems, exploring literature, experimenting, discussing, and presenting the results. Endeavors to improve the creative thinking skills in this research contribute to preparing pre-service teachers with the provision of creative thinking skills to engage the world of society era 5.0 and ready to develop their students' creative thinking skills later so that the quality of Indonesian education may improve.