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Abstract

Caring' is a fundamental aspect to achieve successful education.A teacher who believes on students' potentials applies a student-centered learning process and stimulates them to be more active in learning process to show his/her "care".To overcome the problem of 'caring' for the elementary school teachers, Behavior Modeling Training is an effective approach to improve the 'caring' of the teachers because this model has clear guidance in changing the behavior.Whether there is any influence from Behavior Modeling Training to the 'caring' between the primary school teacher with and without the BMT approach is becoming the concentration of the problems to be answered in this study.This research is using the true experiment study with a pretest-posttest design in a control group.Subject of the research is two classes of 54 teachers in the fundamental grade (1-3) in the KKG 06 group in Sidoarjo.The sample is randomly selected while the collected data is statistically processed by using ANOVA analysis technique with the SPSS 20.0 program for windows.Based on the data analysis, the research found: (1) the application of BMT for primary teachers affect the 'caring' of the teachers, (2) the effectiveness of the application of BMT can be seen from the result of ANOVA statistical tests of control and experimental groups.The research simultaneously found the significant differences of the 'caring' between the teachers who were trained and not trained with BMT.