Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 328 THE EFFORT OF THE EDUCATORS ON BUILDING POSITIVE CHARACTER ON EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT THROUGH ISLAM EDUCATION AT RAUDATUL ATHFAL IDAMAN 1Dwi Hayantini Sunarti, 2Tita Rosita 1,2 IKIP Siliwangi1tinisunarti6812@gmail.com. ABSTRACTChildrens is a mandate from Allah SWT that entrusted to all parents whichwill eventually be asked for responsibility. Every childrens born pure andclean, both parents is making them into Jewish, Christian, Magi (HR BukhariMuslim). So that childrens is a very weak person that will always rely toevery human being around them. Physically one children is a base that can bebuild into so many shapes. Therefore all the childrens need a seriousattentions, since every childs will absorbed everythings they see or hearbecause they have no power to refuse it. So it has become the responsibilityof the parents or the people around them to give the attention about religiousissues include, faith, worship, and morals. Because religion is a guideline toevery humans life whether in this world and hereafter, so that its very affectevery aspect in humans life whether its body or its soul. Every childrens thathas potention from the day they born is possible to grow and can be fosteredwith religious values from an early age. If not properly fostered the period ofphysical and psychological development will be missed. This will be veryharmful to every childrens, because if the development of their religioussouls is good, they will keep it in their heart and will got an amazing values intheir future. Al Qur’an saids that educations is one of the effort that will leadevery human being to the way of Allah SWT with a thoughtfull ways, goodadvice will come with a good point of view too. Educations is a thing to oneeffort or process which held with consiousness, planned well andresponsible, so that this required an educations method that fit perfectly tothe target or an educations purpose that want to be achieve. The essence ofreligious educations is the foundations of religious morality to the childrens,while teaching is to give a knowledge to the protégé. Religious educationsbasically is to train (continue) rligious purity that every childs have sincetheir birth, so that wont fade into atheism or even turn Into other religionexcept Islam. So that need to be our concern to habituate every child to dotheir responsibility to implement religious law and to stay away from itsprohibition. Keyword : educator, positif character PRELIMINARYEssentially educations has a very important role in the development of the nations andstates, this is in the accordance with national educational objectives listed in Law No.20of 2003: Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 329 “National education to its function is to develop every abilities and form thecharacter and civilizations of dignity in order to educate the life of thenations, aims to develop every potential learners to become a person whohave faith and be cautious to god, be noble, healthy, creative, independent ,and become a good democrative citizens that have responsibilities”.As we know, the influence of various television shows and free internet networkseverywhere become one of the things that causing the destructions of morality andindividual character.According to Megawati (2003), every children will grow into a characteristic person ifthey grow in a characteristic environment, so that the destiny of every children whichborn with purity can be develop optimally. Considering the children environment is notonly the family environment which ic micro, so that every parts either family, school,neighborhood contribute to the development of every children. In other words, creatingthe next generations of a good characteristic citizens is our responsibilities. This paperis discussing the way of every educators on creating and building positive characterthrough Islam religious educations.To realizing the purpose of the education this needed the cooperation from every parts,include the government, educators, educational personnel, student, and even thesociety. It is very important to affect the ongoing process of education is the level ofdiscipline of educators and the learners. According to Suparlan (2008: 71) an educationhas three main components of teachers, students and curriculum. Those threecomponents can not be separated and all those components are around the schoolenvironment so that teaching and learning activities can be run as desired.The process of the education is not always can be be held by parents, so the help fromother people or institutions is necessary to handle the educations issues, such as school,moslem school, religious school and other kind of educations to teach every educationsand to develop every potentiont thar every person has it.RA Idaman is one of the PAUD (Early Childhood Education Program) which is in theregion at Kecamatan Citamiang. RA Idaman is llocated at JL. Pramuka. Gg Paramsya No.2. Kelurahan Cikondang Kecamatan Citamiang. Sukabumi, learning and teachingactivities mostly use Islamic learning methods. With learning the education of Islam inchildrens its expected to form a children with akhlakul karimah. RA Idaman have avision that related to a children character building which is In realization early learningchildren that sholeh, smart, healthy, and creative with the basicof IMTAC AND IMTEK. THEORETICAL STUDY PAUD (Early Childhood Education Program)According to UUSPN No. 20 of 2003 aricle 1 paragraph 14 PAUD (Early ChildhoodEducation Program), early childhood educations is a counseling effort aimed at childrenfrom birth age to six years of age through the provision of educational stimulation toassist physical and spiritual growth and development in order for the child to be readyin entering a further education. Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 330 According to UUSPN No 20 of 2003 article 28 paragraph 3 said that early childhoodeducation program can be held through 1) formal education path in the form ofKindergarten (TK) or Raudhatul Atdfal (RA), is using a program for children aged 4-6years, 2) non formal education path in the form Child Care Park (TPA), is using theprogram for children aged 0-6 years and Play Groups (KB)is using the program for children aged 2-6 years, 3) informal education path (family).At an early aged the child experiences a golden age which is the time when the childrenbegin to be sensitive to receive various stimulations. The sensitivity period in everychildren is very different, along with the rate of growth and development of the childindividually. Every aspects of early childhood development consist with aspect ofcognitive developmen, aspects of physical development, aspects of languagedevelopment, and aspects of socioemotional development.Yuliani Nurani Sujono (2009: 10) based on psychological and educational sciencereview, early childhood is a basic time period or a foundation for growth and thedevelopment of the children itself. What the children receive in their early life, such asfood, drink, and stimulations from their environment contributes tremendously to theirgrowht and their development in those days and has a major impact on subsequentgrowth and development.Yuliani Nurani Sujono (2009:42-43) the purpose of early childhood education is : a. In order to make children believe in the existence of God and the able to worship andlove each other. b. In order to make child maintain their body skill include rough motoric movementand soft motoric, and capable to receive any sensoric stimulations c. Children are able to use a language for passive language understanding and cancommunicate effectively so that it can be useful for thinking and learning. d. Children are able to think logically, critically, giving reasons, solve problems andfound casualities. e. Children are able to discover nature environment, social environment, society actand they can respect social and cultural diversity and be able to develop positive selfconcept and self control. f. Children have sesitivity to rhythm, tone, sounds, and appriciate creative work.The general priciples of early childhoog education are : a. Oriented on children necessity, which is learning activities in children should alwaysbe oriented to the childrens necessity, early childhood is needed the effort ofeducation to achieve the optimalisation of every physical and psychological(intelektuality, language, motoric, and socioemotional). b. Learning through playing, which playing is a learning tool for early childhood,through playing childrens are invited to explore, finding, utilizing, and takingconclusion on every object around them. c. Using the condusive environment, which is the environmet that need to be created insuch a way so its interesting and fun with considering about the safety and comfortthat can support learning activities through playing. d. Using integrared learning, that is learning early childhood must use the conceptintegrated learning through theme, the theme need to be interesting and can raise up Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 331 children interest and its contextual. This thing is mean to the children are able torecognize various concept easily and clearly so that learning becomes much moreeasier and meaningful for children. e. Developing skills, which is developing skills can be done through various habituationprocesses, it is intended to make children help themselves, independent andresponsible and have self-discipline. f. Using various educative media and learning resources, which is media and learningresources can comes from the natural environment around or the materials that areprepared by the educators. g. Using various educative media and learning resources, that is learning for early childhood should be done gradually, starting from a simple concept and close to thechildren, so that concept can be controlled properly the teacher should be present arepetitive activities. Educator CompetenceIn UUSPN No. 20 of 2003 Article 42 Paragraph 1 says that educators must haveminimum qualifications and certification in accordance with the level of authority ofteach, healthy physically and spiritually, and has the ability to realize the goals ofnational educations. From the above descriptions conclude that to be an educator thefirst stage is need to require minimum qualification (teacher or general educationbackground and have teaching deed), after the educators complete the qualifications,then the educators must have the competence to teach.In UUSPN No 14/2005 about teachers and lecturers, professional educators with themain task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluatinglearner in early childhood educations, formal educations path, primary and secondaryeducation.Trianto (2006: 62), competence means abilities, skills, and skills possessed by a personwith regard to his job or profession.To achieve good result on a series of educational and learning activities, a teacher isrequired to have a certain qualification called as a competences.In UUSPN No. 14 of 2005 Chapter IV Chapter 10, an educator or a teacher must havefour competencies, namely professional competence, pedagogic competence,personality competence, and social competence. 1. Professional CompetenceProfessional competence is a set of capabilities mastery of subject matter widely anddeeply in carrying out teaching tasks. According to Gumelar Dahyat (2002: 127) refersto the opinions of Sian Institute For Teacher Education, to become a professionalteacher is required :a. Understands and enjoy the world of education and supported by professionalcompetence.b. Adjust a good teaching principles and have a high commitment to education. Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 332 c. Have a good working motivation so that can improve the teachers teachingperformance and learning process.d. Being patient and act as a role model for their student, both in saying and behaving.e. Has many roles so that to create effective learning condition and conducive schoolatmosphere.f. Following every communication technology development and information foreducation.g. Has an obvious educational programs and directed according to the curriculum.h. Has a noble character and has a polite personality and has a responsibilities. 2. Pedagogic CompetencePedagogic competence is an abilities to maintaining the learning process of the students(learning maintenance). This competence can be seen from the ability of planninglearning program, ability to do interaction or maintain learning process, and ability todo assessment. The teachers ability in the students learning maintenance involve :a. Understanding of insight or educational foundationEducators must have a scientific education background so that they have academic andintellectual skill. Reffering to subject based management system (subject), teachershould have a suitability between scientific background with the leading subjects.Beside that, the teachers must have knowledge and experience to held the learningprocess inside the class. Auntentically both of those things can be proved with theacademic certificate and teaching skill certificate (deed of teaching) from thegovernment accredited institutionsb. Understanding to studentThe educator must have an understanding aspect to child psychological development,so that they can decide what kind of approach that need to do to their students. Theteacher can lead the kids through their hard times on their age. Beside that, theeducator must have a good knowledge and understatement to the child personalbackground, so that they can identify every problems that the child is having anddetermine the solutions and the right aproaches.c. Curriculum/Silabus DevelopmentThe educator must have abilities to developing national education curriculum that beencustomized with the spesific condition of school environment.d. Learning DesignThe educator must have learning design system that using required resource. All thelearning activities from the beginning until finish should be planned strategically,including the problem anticipation that possibly arise from the planned scenario.e. Implementation of educational and dialogical learningthe edust need to create a creative, active, and fun learning situation for children. Givinga huge spaces for them to explore their potention and their abilities so that can betrained and develop.f. Utilizations of learning technology Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 333 On learning accomplishment, teachers need to use t echnology as a media. Organizinglearning material and administrating with the information technology. Makes thechildren interact to using technology.g. The evaluation of learning resultThe educators must have abilities to evaluate the learning result than can be doneinclude planning, children response, chlidrens learning result, methods and aproaches.For having the evaluation the educators must plan the right assessment, do the rightscale, and making conclusion and the accurate solutions.h. Student development to actulisation every potention that they haveThe educator must have abilitiies to lead the childrens, creating places for children toknowing their potention and train them to actualization the potention their having. Oneof the attempt that can be done is to develop that abilities is with having a class actresearch. Class act research, based on planning and solution over the issues that thechildren are having while learning. So that the learning result will increasing theteachers planned program can be achieve. 3. Personality CompetencesThe educator have an assignmenr to teach, need a personality competences that will bevery infected to their student development success. A good personality from a teacherwill give a good example to the student as well as the society, so that the teacher willshown as a good eminent figure whether their saying, attitude even their action.Teacher personality is an important factor for the student learning success.According to Risang Melati (2012, 22), personality competences that managed well bythe educator is a great personal abilities, noble attitude, wise, authoritative and be rolemodels for their students. Remebering that early childhood development learn fromwhat they see, hear, and they experienced or in other words is learning by doing, anearly chilhood teachers are should be have a strong character and good morality. Theeducator must adjust their attitudes and behaviors that are in accordance with thenorm. whether conscious or not, childrens will do everything we do, lets say oneveryday activities, educator always throwing garbage to its place, so did the childrenswill do it too. 4. Social competencesAccording to Risang Melati (2012: 23), social competences is an educator ability tocommunicate and interact effectively dan that good efficientcy with the student norwith the society. An educator need to be associate well mannered with every other partslike its saying above, the purpose is to maintain a good relationship and solid, thoserelationship will be very useful for every part of it. DISCUSSION Positive Character Building on Early childhood Through The Learning of Islam ReligionAccording to UUSPN No 20 of 2003 paragraph 28, Early Childhood Educations (PAUD) isone of the coaching effort intended for children from birth to six year which is Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 334 conducted through the stimulation of education to helping the growth and thedevelopment of physical and spiritual so that the children will have readiness to enterfurther education.Childrens is like the oase in the middle of the desert that dry and barren. They will bringvery much happines when we thirst, provide shades when it gets hot and givinghappines when the sorrow comes. Through their children all the parents rely theirhopes and dreams. With their children parents will sail through the life. And thechildren prayer will giving coolness and happiness in afterlife. All of that will be aninevitability somehow if one children having a good education, so that it will be veryhelpful for their parents, environment, society, and the nation.Children education Is a very important thing that need to be given by all the parents totheir son and daughter. Children is a future miniature of a nation. It is therefore notsurpirising that every parents are competing to provide the best education fo theirchildrens. A high quality school or educational institutions becomes a reference indetermining the educational goals of their children. Not less important is the moraleducation, character, or moral that must be given to every child. Because eventhough achild has a good academic skills even genius, but if not accompanied by a good moralityhandling and a good certain of morality surely It wont have any balance. It could be atotal fatality whenever they grown up.In middle of era where information that very much easy to get, sure we need to fortifyour child with a right moral education. The parental example need to be put forward,because on early ages, children imitating act is very dominant. Parental advisory inmorality character and attitude building has a huge impact. The exemplary of bothparents in speaking, and behavior attitude can be an obvious example for their sons anddaughters. More attention from all parents to their child movement and activities isnecessary, moreover these days lots of television shows that are too much if theres nocontrols from parents can be a bad influences to the children development. Startingfrom the cartoon shows, soap opera, variety shows, mistycal shows which is oftenloaded with contra productive issues through the childrens education, evetually its hasa huge potention to ruin our childs attitude. Not to mention the association and lifestyle, the existence of porn video is a serious issues nowadays, if we really pay attentionto it, its really terrible.And remember when Luqman said to his son when he taught him a lesson, “My sondon’t ever try to associate Allah, because if you try to do it to Allah it is a very hugeruthlessness” (QS Luqman :13).From these verse we can taking conclusion that, first parent is responsibility to givetheir child a good education, second while we teach the basic priority scales and thefoundation on building a sholeh character on our children. When we try to educating weshould use kind of affection approaches, this thing we need to considered and Luqmanhail to his childrens, “Yaa Bunayya” (oh mychildrens). These kind of calls implies anexpression full of affection, kind of soft touches in educating children. Beautiful andsoothing at the same time. “Bunayya” word contains intimate feeling, softness and Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 335 itimacy, but still in an assertiveness and discipline way and not to mention taught withharsh feeling.We are leaving and building a cruel and rough-hearted child if we try to educatechildrens with harsh way. Violence will leaves marks in children, and it will makes theirkindness dissappeared with harsh and brutal education. Childrens personalities becamemuch tougher, their mind and soul will stays without any kinndness. Softness, kindnesson teahing children is on of Al Quran concept, no matter what kind of education theyhaving every kind of education need contain softness and kindness. So are in theeducation priority is to educate the moral education first, of course with a tender andloving way. So that the children will feel the affection, softness, and feel safe wheneverthey get close to their parent.According to islam religion education there is three important thins that need to begiven to early childhood:a. Faith EducationIslam is putting morality is the basic things, such as the pilar of faith the pilar of islamwhich at the same time as a key that distinguishes between Muslims an non muslims.b. Education of worshipIn Islam the order of worship has been arranged as good as possible by not violatinghuman nature citror, and the aplication should be as early as possible. This been doneso someday they will grow into a very pious person, that is obedient to carry out all thecommandments of Allah and all the Messengers and obey the rules to tay away fro theprohibitions.c. Morality educationTo reach the true Islam perfection, moral is the main foundation that need torealization. To realization this thing is listed in Al Quran and Hadits of the Prophet.Once Rassulullah says “every each of you is a leader and one day it will be asking allresponsibility” (this hadits is narrated by Al Imam Bukhari and Al Imam Muslim).For that we cant say no, a teacher or a parent need to knows every each thing that thetaught to the children must be accordance with the guidance of the mankind,Rassulullah Muhammad SAW. CONCLUSIONCharacter as an innate trait that affect behavior, manners, character andterminologically character is a psychological issues, moraility or character itscharacterizes to a person or group of peoples, which need to be nurtured and developedas early as possible.It is not easy to form a good character of the children, so that the educators role need tounderstands things that can inhibit the development childrens character and shouldhave a way to build childrens positive character that contains Islam education learning, Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 336 this ting can realized one of them with the intervention of educators who has anycompetences in their field.It is hoped that one of the goals of education can be ralized so that Indonesia in thefuture will be fulfilled by children with positive character who can buid Indonesia into anation that is appreciated and equal with developed country in the world. 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