Building Cooperation Interpersonal Skill in Physical Education Lessons Through Traditional Game

Cooperation as interpersonal skill is one of the four important competencies that must be possessed by learners to be able to lead a successful life in the 21st century. Therefore, teachers, who are usually only concerned with assisting students to meet certain hard-skill qualifications, are now also required to include cooperation in their objective. Therefore, teachers, including physical education teachers, must be able to develop teaching materials to meet such demands and all the while promoting physical activities. Games can become a reliable teaching resource to increase learners' involvement in learning and to create a cooperative learning environment. Hence, this article is focused in describing the results of the teacher's competence advancement activities as an effort to develop game as a resource to teach cooperation. A total of 23 games were selected to be played by 33 prospective PE teachers and 20 experienced PE teachers at elementary level to increase teacher's competence in the development of game as teaching resource. Assessment results stated the 23 games were appropriate (77.5%) to create an environment in which learning process that promotes cooperation to students could take place. In addition, score of teacher knowledge of game as teaching resource is 59.8% (adequate). Thus, trainings in developing game as a resource to teach cooperation in learning for Elementary School Students is necessary, specifically for elementary school physical education teachers.