The Analysis of Teacher’s Needs Toward Science Learning for Elementary Students with Mild Mental Retardation

Learning media is one of the important things in the child s learning process. The purpose of this study is to determine the teacher s needs of learning media for children with special needs with mild mental retardation in science learning. This research technique uses a qualitative descriptive research method by conducting a needs analysis. The research subject is a teacher at a special school who teaches mild mental retardation. The results showed that the used learning media were not varied. Based on the explanation above, the development of media really needs to be conducted by the teacher. The conclusion of this study found that the learning media used by teachers in science learning still needs to be developed.