Utilization of Effective Motivational Activities in Teaching Discipline and Ideas in Social Sciences

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The struggle of learning Social Science discipline is certainly observed among learners since it is exposed to factual information such as history, theories, significant dates, places, influential people and the likes. Students are often encouraged to regurgitate facts as a means to demonstrate academic understanding. With this, teachers of Social Science were really challenged about incorporating motivational activities to capture the interest of the learners and for them to actively participate in the teaching-learning process and to ensure their preparedness on the four exits of K-12 program.

METHODS

The purpose of this study was to identify and utilize the effective motivational technique in teaching Discipline and Ideas in Social Science among the Grade 12 students in content areas of the second quarter, the first semester of Grade Twelve, the academic year 2018-2019. The respondents of this study consist of fifty (50) Grade Twelve students enrolled at Lobo Senior High School selected through random sampling. Moreover, twenty (20) Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) teachers in Senior High School were also requested to participate in this study.

RESULTS

The researcher finds out that the main struggle faced by the students in learning the discipline and ideas of Social Science is that teachers' way of teaching is more on the lecture method. It can also be gleaned that the teacher considered the use of trending games as an effective motivational technique topping all other forms of motivational technique.

DISCUSSIONS

In addition to instruction, students were given the opportunity to enjoy the lesson while they were learning. The analysis of data revealed that the application of an effective motivational technique has a positive impact on the teaching and learning Discipline and Ideas in Social Science.