Identifying teacher’s strategies in teaching writing at Grade XI in MAN 2 Model Padangsidimpuan

This research describes about teacher’s strategies in teaching writing at MAN 2 Model Padangsidimpuan. There were some problem in this research, they are : 1) to know teacher’s strategies in teaching writing, 2) how teacher apply some strategies in teaching writing at MAN 2 Model Padangsidimpuan. The scope of this research has limited just to the teacher’s strategies in teaching writing and the strategy often used by teacher in teaching writing. This research has taken based on strategy in teaching writing. The researcher identified many strategies, In this research, the researcher want to find out about teacher’s strategy and how the teacher apply their strategy in teaching writing at MAN 2 Model Padangsidimpuan. This research has conducted by qualitative approach and descriptive method. The sources of data for this research were an English teacher and students. As the instrument for collecting the data the researcher used observation, interview and video recorded. The researcher analyzed the data: managing, reading, describing, representing, classifying, interpreting data by identifying and abstracting important understanding from the detail and complexity of the data. Teacher’s strategy in teaching writing at MAN 2 Model Padangsidimpuan dominant to Genre Based Approach strategy and cooperative strategy. The implementation of using genre based approach with four stages such as building knowledge of the field, modeling of the text, join construction of the text, and independent construction of text. The implementation of using cooperative strategy by making a small group of student to help to share ideas with each other