THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REMEDIAL TEACHING IN SMA KEJAYAAN INDONESIA BINJAI

Abstract

This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of remedial teaching
included preparation, implementation of activities (process), and follow-up in
SMA Kejayaan Indonesia Binjai for grade XI done by the English teacher.
Another aim of this research was to find out the factor that contributed to the
students’ success in remedial teaching. Descriptive qualitative research design
was used in this research. The participants of this study were an English teacher
and 6 remedial students who had passed remedial teaching. The data sources in
this study were the teacher’s utterances and questionnaire answer sheets. The data
were collected by interviewing the teacher and spreading Google Form
questionnaire for the remedial students. Based on the interview, it was found that
the teacher included preparation as to diagnose students’ difficulty,
implementation as to re-explain the material, and follow up as to give the
successful students more motivation. It was concluded that what the teacher had
done can be called as remedial teaching because she had already done 6 out of 7
steps of proper remedial teaching which are reviewing the case, selecting
alternative action, provision of special services, implementing remedial teaching,
re-measuring learning outcomes, and re-evaluating. For the questionnaire result,
the factor that contributed to the students’ success in remedial teaching came from
internal and external factor.