Implementation of Cooperative Games: Strategies to Increase Children's Social Intelligence at an Early Age

Abstract

Children's social abilities can be improved by various methods or by various types of play activities. One thing that can be used is cooperative play activities. The social abilities of early childhood children at RA Taslim Payakumbuh are not yet optimal and still need to be improved. There are still children who are not able to take responsibility when putting back bags that have been taken in their place, there are also children who are not able to follow the rules and are not able to organize themselves when lining up on the school field. This research aims to determine children's social development through cooperative play. The type of research is classroom action research (PTK). The results of this research show that there is an increase in social abilities through cooperative games. In cycle I 59%. In cycle II 89%. Meanwhile, teacher observations carried out in cycle I were 56%. In cycle II 94%. From the cycle improvements carried out, it can be concluded that this research was successful in improving children's social skills through cooperative play.