PENDEKATAN PEMBELAJARAN KONTEKSTUAL MATA PELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DALAM MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BERAGAMA DI SMA NEGERI 16 SURABAYA

Abstract

Education is the main key in the formation of children's religious attitudes. The age of the child has consequences on the change in the educational process they receive, therefore, with the increasing age of the child and changes in their behavior it must be accompanied by the right education so that they have a noble attitude and behavior and character that will later make children become adults who live religious teachings. With the religious attitude they have, it will be able to control and encourage someone to behave according to religious norms. The role of the teacher of Islamic Education is very large influence in the development of the religious spirit of students, including how teachers pay attention to children in educating, teaching and evaluating both in delivering material in class or in class or in carrying out daily activities -Day students at school. The process of teaching and learning delivery, especially PAI learning conducted by the teacher so far is still dominant in the realm of memorization and textual, so that students only know the theory of PAI lessons, but the values ​​contained in the PAI lessons are poorly understood to be practiced in Everyday life. Seeing the reality in the field, most of the teaching atmosphere techniques in schools that are used by our teachers tend to be monotonous and boring, thus reducing student motivation. This condition in turn has an impact on religious implementation. To answer these problems it is necessary to apply an alternative PAI learning that is conducive to an atmosphere that tends to be reactive so that it can motivate students to develop their creative potential.

The results of this study are that the learning of Islamic religious education subjects in increasing religious motivation through a contextual approach in SMAN 16 Surabaya The application of contextual learning models has a positive impact, which can increase students' religious motivation as indicated by changes in some efforts made by the teacher PAI through learning and various activities that exist in schools. with a contextual learning approach is one way to increase student religious motivation namely an approach that seeks to link learning material with students' real life.