LESSON STUDY IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES:IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TEACHER TEACHING

Innovation in the teaching of physical education is urgently needed by teachers in today's era. Therefore, our research aims to apply lesson study to improve the quality of teacher teaching. This study adopted a preexperimental method. Participants in this study came from physical education teachers from the Surabaya (Indonesia) area, totaling 12 elementary school teachers.The quality of learning is measured by looking at two aspects: teaching skills observed from recorded processes on how teachers managed the classroom and from students' formative class evaluation questionnaire after the learning process. The initial measurement and training on managing the classroom were given to the participating teachers before lesson study was conducted. Furthermore, The lesson study program was carried out for 12 cycles. The same measurement was taken during and after lesson study concluded. All data in this study were processed using IBM SPSS with ANOVA analysis and effect sizesThe results of the study found that lesson study at the during and after stages was proven to significantly improve the quality of teacher teaching (p<0.05), but not at the previous stage (p>0.05). Thus, this study becomes one of the evidences regarding the positive effects provided by lesson study. This research contributes to efforts to improve the teaching quality of physical education teachers in Indonesia.