Abstract

Educating discipline for early children is not an easy, it needs habituation and perseverance in shaping such behavior which is based on the roles that have been set in the group environment, the character of discipline is very important as a provision for children to have good moral until they grow old. In disciplining children, there are still many educators and teachers who use violence against children, even though that is not true. The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation of giving rewards in building discipline for early childhood. The type of research method which used in this research was qualitative research approach with a phenomenological qualitative approach. This research was conducted at Bintang Kids PAUD in the 5-6 years old of age group class. Interviews, observation and documentation were used as data collection techniques in this research. In testing the validity of data, time triangulation was used in this study. In data analysis technique, the researcher here used data analysis which was based on a theory of Miles and Huberman, namely data collection, summarizing, reviewing and conclusions. The results of this research on the implementation of giving rewards in creating discipline for early childhood were obtained from these following steps; 1). the planning stage, the discipline of educators, such as: (1) maintaining the cleanliness of classroom, (2) preparing the Daily Lesson Plan (RPPH), (3) preparing media (teaching equipment and materials) which was based on the learning material and (4) controlling the class (to be conducive) so that the class would be calm and could start the Teaching and Learning Process (PBL). 2) the implementation stage, namely giving rewards (verbally: good, smart, excellent, thumbs up., nonverbal: thumbs up, clapping, head nodding and giving stickers), some differences in discipline between children in previous era and now, undisciplined children (coming late, praying in a hurry, talking when their teacher explained, disturbing his friends when doing assignments, and submitting their assignments late), and the teacher here was as a facilitator.


Keywords: Giving rewards, Discipline, Early Childhood