Reshaping Habituation Program to Optimize Children Self-Development in Elementary

Abstract

Learning soft skills to train general and specific skills as an important discipline for professional and organizational success, various interpersonal skills and elements of personal characteristics such as emotions and values. Various activities are implemented in educational institutions, especially activities outside of learning, for example extracurricular activities or sharing programs that are characteristic of educational institutions. This is considered to support the individual quality of students, in addition to intelligence formed in the process of learning and social learning children will also be formed by being trained in school activities or programs that are implemented consistently. The habituation program is one that is widely implemented in educational institutions in Indonesia, this program is called so because it is implemented consistently, with the ultimate goal of becoming a routine activity that is inherent in students. This paper describes the habituation program with its various activities in terms of optimizing children's self-development at the elementary school level. The research method used is qualitative by using data collection techniques in the form of a result of interviews with research subjects, observation and documentation related to the program and the activities implemented.