The Implementation of Remedial Teaching in SMA Kejayaan Indonesia Binjai

This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of remedial teaching
included preparation, implementation of activities (process), and follow-up in SMA
Kejayaan Indonesia Binjai for grade XI done by the English teacher. Another aim of
this research was to find out the factor that contributed to the students’ success in
remedial teaching. Descriptive qualitative research design was used in this research.
The participants of this study were an English teacher and 6 remedial students who
had passed remedial teaching. The data sources in this study were the teacher’s
utterances and questionnaire answer sheets. The data were collected by interviewing
the teacher and spreading Google Form questionnaire for the remedial students.
Based on the interview, it was found that the teacher included preparation as to
diagnose students’ difficulty, implementation as to re-explain the material, and follow
up as to give the successful students more motivation. It was concluded that what the
teacher had done can be called as remedial teaching because she had already done 6
out of 7 steps of proper remedial teaching which are reviewing the case, selecting
alternative action, provision of special services, implementing remedial teaching, remeasuring
learning outcomes, and re-evaluating. For the questionnaire result, the
factor that contributed to the students’ success in remedial teaching came from
internal and external factor. The internal factor was from psychological factor which
showed that they were focused and highly motivated and had motive in passing the
KKM (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimum). Meanwhile, the external factor came from
family and school factor which showed that their parents responded negatively for
their failure and the school that provided competent teacher and would give strict
punishment if they do not pass the KKM in remedial teaching.