The Role of Emotional Awareness and Job Stress: Basis for the Development of L.O.V.E Program in Kabalacan Integrated School Teachers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The teacher's role in helping the learners know the gap in their reading performance is also countable in the process of improving the performance of the students. Once learners have the capability of noticing their reading performance, they will start to cooperate with their teachers to be improved. At certain point, learners will begin to show outstanding performance in reading. One of these methods was the Bring-home strategy, which promoted desirable learning experience.

METHODS

The study utilized bring-home strategy in reading and in the improvement of the performance of the second year students during the first grading period of the school year 2012-2013. It concentrated its effort onthe use of bring-home strategy as agent in the improvement in performance in Reading II. The experimental group used the bring-home strategy designed by the researcher while the control group did not. The effects of the bring-home strategy was measured bycomparing the mean gain score of the experimental and the control groups in the pre-test-ports test which cove the same lessons.

RESULTS

Of the 40 students in the control group, nobody was very satisfactory; 3 or 8% were satisfactory and 37 or 92% were below satisfactory in their performance in Reading II during the pre-test. Of the 40 students in the experimental group, nobody was very satisfactory and satisfactory in their performance in Reading II. Fifty or 100% achieved below satisfactory. Of the 40 students in the study placed in the control group during the post-test, there were 5 or 12% who were satisfactory; 12 or 30% were satisfactory and 23 or 58% were below satisfactory. Of the 40 students in the experimental group during the post-test, 26 or 65% achieved very satisfactory; 10 or 25% were satisfactory and 4 or 10% were below satisfactory in their performance.

DISCUSSIONS

Though students in a class are exposed in similar process of learning a subject, they have different capability of processing the input they get. Students in a class have different abilities in accumulating the knowledge as well as in performing the competencies in the target area, thus, the teacher often finds a number of students with low performance.