PEMBERDAYAAN KELOMPOK ORANG TUA SISWA POS PAUD WILAYAH KELURAHAN PASIR KALIKI KOTA CIMAHI JAWA BARAT

Abstract

Every early childhood has potential that needs to be developed optimally. One of the potential is scientific intelligence. Interaction in science education can take place in a family, school or community environment. Parents are the main formers of the child's personality, therefore there needs an effort in developing parents competence , especially to manage an interesting and easy science activity in relation to the child's growth process in everyday life. Due to the limitations of science and information, based on the survey results of the parents group of POS PAUD students in Kelurahan Pasir Kaliki, Cimahi City, found the far conditions from ideal about how parents interact and engage in the education process of their children, especially in science learning. To overcome this situation, through the Community Service of Politeknik Negeri Bandung activities, as an effort to empower the parents group of POS PAUD students were given guidance and training. Parents of students are provided with science materials for early childhood that are packaged in daily language using educative props assistance so the parents have the skills and creative thinking as competences in introducing science to their children at home. These educative props are then submitted to POS PAUD as a support to increase the number and types of educative props in schools. The activity evaluation results showed that participants felt a huge benefit in increasing their understanding and skills in introducing science to children. The results of the questionnaire with 12 items of statements and 20 respondents showed parents perceptions about the benefits of science training included in the good category (with a total score of 966).