PENERAPAN KEGIATAN MARKET DAY TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN SOSIAL EMOSIONAL ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN DI TK IT MINA ACEH BESAR

Abstract

 Children's social abilities are obtained from various opportunities and experiences of making friends with the people around them. Social development is an individual's skills in character or behavior when establishing relationships with social factors in society. Market Day is an Entrepreneurial learning activity, children are guided on how to promote a product to their friends, educators, or to outsiders, this activity is generally carried out at bazaars or markets held at schools, Market Day can foster a sense of self-confidence, improve children's communication skills and form children's business acumen. This research aims to find out how Market Day activities are applied to children's social emotional abilities and to find out what obstacles teachers have in implementing Market Day activities to the social emotional abilities of children aged 5-6 years. This research uses descriptive qualitative research using interview techniques to collect data. The subjects of this research were all IT Mina Aceh Besar Kindergarten teachers in class B. The results of the research showed that in terms of social emotional abilities children aged 5-6 years had met the indicators of achieving social emotional abilities in Market Day activities, but there were around 3 children who still have not reached the social emotional ability indicators for children aged 5-6 years because during Market Day activities there were still children who did not comply with the rules and were not able to interact with their peers. Apart from that, the obstacles faced by teachers in implementing Market Day activities are the lack of accompanying teachers in Market Day activities, teachers still have problems in carrying out buying and selling and teachers do not have enough control over the location of Market Day activities.