Application of the Teaching at The Right Level Approach to Increase Learning Motivation of Class X Students

Abstract

Students have different abilities based on their individual interests, talents, and learning styles during classroom learning. Generally, the teacher's teaching style in the classroom is implemented based on the material delivered to students. The teaching style used by the teacher must certainly align with the learning style of each student. Students' learning styles are divided into three categories: visual, kinesthetic, and auditory learning styles. The TaRL approach is a learning method that does not refer to grade levels but rather focuses on students' ability levels. The purpose of this Classroom Action Research is to increase student motivation using the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in learning in grades X-12 at SMAN 8 Bandung. The subjects of this study were 36 students from grades X-12 at SMAN 8 Bandung. Data collection was conducted through observation, and data analysis used quantitative descriptive techniques. The results showed that student learning motivation could be assessed as follows: interval 1, which means strongly agree (10.7%); interval 2, agree (64.3%); interval 3, disagree (25%); and interval 4, strongly disagree (0%). Thus, it can be concluded that the use of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach can effectively increase the learning motivation of grade X-12 students at SMAN 8 Bandung.