Strategi Pemanfaatan Media Pembelajaran dalam Pembelajaran Aqidah Akhlak pada Siswa Kelas XI MAS Tahfizhil Qur'an Yayasan Islamic Center Sumatera Utara

Abstract

This study aims to describe the utilization of instructional media by the Aqidah Akhlak teacher in delivering material to eleventh-grade students at MAS Tahfizhil Qur'an, Islamic Center Foundation of North Sumatra, including the strategy applied by the teacher in place of media, the teacher's rationale for not using instructional media, and students' responses toward the limited use of media in learning. A qualitative descriptive method was applied, with data gathered through open-ended questionnaires and interviews with the teacher and several students from classes XI A, B, and C, along with direct classroom observation and documentation. The teacher was found to make no use of instructional media at all — no PowerPoint, posters, or videos — even though a projector is already mounted in the classroom, and instead applied an expository strategy in the form of lecturing combined with dictation for note-taking. This lack of media use appears rooted more in personal preference than in a lack of facilities, while students' responses toward the limited media variation varied — some reported boredom from the repetitive pattern, while others felt sufficiently engaged by the teacher's relaxed, contextual delivery. These findings point to a need for more varied instructional media utilization to strengthen student engagement in Aqidah Akhlak learning.