PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN TATA BOGA MATERI PEMBUATAN BROWNIS KUKUS MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN EKSPLISIT

: This study aimed at determining the culinary skills improvement of learning outcomes making steamed browniesin children with mild mental retardation using explicit instruction learning model. The research was conducted on thestudents of class XII SMALB-C Kembar Karya I, East Jakarta, with 2 student from September to October 2012. Thisstudy used Classroom Action Research with 2 cycles where each cycle consisted of 2 meetings. The research success wasanalyzed individually, one aspect for each student as the development of children with mental retardation can not becompared to other children, but the progress on himself. The results showed that using explicit instruction learning modelincreases learning outcomes in culinary skills of making steamed brownies for the students with mild mental retardation. Keywords: children with mild mental retardation, culinary skills, steamed brownies, explicit instruction.