Abstract:
This study dealt with Improving The Students’ Achievement In Writing
Descriptive Paragraph. The Objective of this research was to find out the
improvement of students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph through
Synectics Model teaching by their teacher. This Research had been conducted at
SMPN 6 MEDAN. The Object of this research was their teacher who taught the
students of seventh grade of SMPN 6 Medan at 2015/2016 academic year. It was
disputed a teacher who taught in VII-L which consisted of 44 students. This
research was conducted in two cycles and there were sixth meeting for two cycles.
The research design were qualitative data by using observation sheet to their
teacher and quantitative written test, was given 5 score to students. Based on
written test, the students score kept improving in every test. In the pre-test the
mean score was 47,75. In the post-test of first cycle the mean score was 56,16 and
in the post-test of cycle 2 the mean score was 75,66. The Improvement also could
be seen from the percentage of students’ability in writing. In pre-test 3 students
who got point up to KKM 70 (12,5%). In the post-test of first cycle 8 students
who got point up to KKM 70 (33,3%). While in the post-test of second cycle 24
students who got point up to KKM 70 (100%). There was also improvement of
students behavior participation in the class. In the first cycle, some students could
not attention and focused on the teacher presentation and they could not practice
dialogue in front of the class. Everthless, in the second cycle they were able to
focus and participanted on the teacher’s command. The students looked interested
when described the object. Having taught using sociodrama method by their
teacher it could be concluded that synectics model could improve the students’
achievement in writing
