Application of the Teams Games Tournament (TGT) Model in Improving Learning Motivation in Social Studies

Abstract

The word motivation comes from the word "motive" which means will, reason, desire, and drive. Motivation refers to an energy that can arouse and guide a person's actions. Learning motivation is a very important thing because the thoughts in a person will provide encouragement to learn in order to achieve the goals of learning. This study aims to improve learning motivation in the subject of Social Studies class VIII-B at MTsN 1 Pamekasan. The study used the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method with two cycles. Each cycle has 2 meetings. The subjects of the study were 30 students. The average value of cycle I was 63.17%, which is still classified as moderate motivation, and the average value of cycle II was 93%, which is classified as very high motivation. Thus, it can be concluded that the application of the TGT model has succeeded in achieving the goals that the researcher had expected, namely to increase learning motivation in Social Studies subjects using the TG model. The TGT learning model is expected to be an option for teachers in the future to increase student learning motivation. With this, the application of the TGT learning model can increase learning motivation in Social Studies subjects, each cycle increases and can be declared successful.