Improving Early Childhood Gross Motor Development Based on Locomotor Activities

Abstract

This research aims to determine the development of children's gross motor skills, find out the process of activities through locomotor activities in children and find out the extent to which children's gross motor skills have improved. This type of research is Classroom Action Research (PTK). The research subjects were children from the B3 group at Pertiwi Padang Panjang Kindergarten, in the even semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, totaling 6 boys and 11 girls. Data collection techniques in this research are observation and documentation. In this research, meetings were held in 6 meetings, conducted in two cycles, cycle I was held in 3 meetings and cycle II was held in 3 meetings. The results of this study show that children's gross motor development increases through locomotor activities. This is shown by the percentage of success of children per cycle. In cycle one, 3 meetings were held with a final result of 45%. The second cycle was carried out in 3 meetings with a final result of 86%. Based on the results of research on teacher activities in the first cycle and second cycle of learning, there was an increase of 41%. In the first cycle it was 60% and in the second cycle it was 92%, the increase was 32% of the cycle increase carried out, so it can be concluded that this research was successful in increasing children's gross motor skills through locomotor activities.