Integrating Jazz Chants Techniques in High School English Teacher Competency Training at English Teachers‘ Learning Community, Tangerang Regency in 2023

Abstract

The 2013 Curriculum uses the application of a scientific approach to the learning process. The scientific approach includes inquiry learning that is inspired by constructivism. Attitudes are acquired through activities: receiving, carrying out, appreciating, experiencing, and practicing. Knowledge is acquired through activities: remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating, and creating. Meanwhile, skills are acquired through activities: observing, asking, collecting information/trying, associating, and communicating. The 2013 Curriculum with scientific approach and three learning models that support it; project-based learning, problem-based learning and discovery-learning, as well as the integration of co-operative and collaborative learning strategies in the implementation of the three models above. In implementing the approach and the three models, there needs to be a learning technique that is essentially a level of implementing activities in the classroom. The technique is used by English teacher in competency improvement training for high school English teachers at the English High School Teachers’ Learning Community in Tangerang Regency in 2023. The use of the technique in various activities showed it stimulate the authentic and communicative language covering various situations according to the age and needs of students and teachers. In conclusion, integrating Jazz chant technique in pedagogic ways can improve students and teachers communicative skills.