Hubungan Kualitas Interaksi Sosial Guru dengan Prestasi Belajar Sosiologi Siswa Rayon SMA Negeri 12 Medan

Abstract

One of the determinants of success in education at schools is the teachers’ role as the main educational resource in managing the teaching process and social interaction (social competence), either in class or outside class, professionally in order to yield qualified output and high learning performance. Social competence is the ability 1) to communicate verbally, in written form, and in hints, 2) to use communication and information technology functionally, 3) to socialize effectively with students, colleagues, and students’ parents, and 4) to socialize politely with the surrounding people. The objective of the research was to describe the interaction pattern between teachers ad students and to find out some factors which influenced the intensity of social interaction between them during the process of learning sociology, and to find out the correlation of the quality of teachers’ social interaction (verbal and non-verbal) with students’ learning performance in sociology (their grades) in the Rayon of SMA Negeri 12, Medan. The research used explanatory method with a survey on 160 respondents, taken by using purposive sampling technique with the hypothesis that there was the correlation between the quality of teachers’ social interaction and students’ learning performance in sociology in the Rayon of SMA Negeri 12, Medan. The result of the research showed that a) students’ learning performance in the subject of Sociology was very good, b) the students got competence in behavior by learning sociology; they were adaptive in learning to see their environmental situation and began to avoid deviant behavior, but their high interest in learning sociology, they are not interested in becoming sociologists, c) there was significant correlation between teachers’ social interaction quality and students’ learning performance in the subject of Sociology; it was indicated by teachers’ behavior in the subject of Sociology during their interaction with students at school or outside school. They considered their students as friends. Sociology teachers are transparent figures in socialization with students, new reference users, and good preparation before teaching which was related to students’ high grades in Sociology in the learning-teaching process at their school.