ART LEARNING FOR CHILDREN WITH DELAYED CHILDREN IN SLB MANUNGGAL SLAWI, TEGAL REGENCY

Abstract

Research on learning art for mentally retarded children at SLB Manunggal Slawi, Tegal Regency, aims to find out more about the art learning and learning process that educators do in class for mentally retarded children during the covid19 pandemic.The outputs of this research will be presented in the form of: Scientific articles to be published so that they can be enriched in educational science, especially in the Education of Children with Special Needs.This study uses a qualitative descriptive method, meaning that the problems discussed in this study describe or describe the state of art learning for mentally retarded children at SLB Manunggal Slawi, Tegal Regency during the covid19 pandemic.The results of the study indicate that SLB Manunggal Slawi in carrying out teaching and learning activities refers to the curriculum currently being carried out by the government, of course the curriculum that applies to children with special disabilities. the current learning process is only giving assignments, students are given assignments for the next 1 week, students come to school only to take assignments given by the teacher, besides that the teacher uses whatsapp groups as online media in providing learning material. Art learning is currently only done using online so that due to space limitations due to using online media, teachers cannot explain the meaning of the national song that is being played and also cannot do a demonstration of the song that is being taught in learning.