Keywords: Prognostic Effect of Teachers' Pedagogical Approaches and Ingenious Schemes on Students' Performance in Science

Abstract

Introduction

Considering the nature of Science activities, the teacher decidedly influences the character-building of the students under his care. Teaching through example is more powerful than teaching through precept. Hence, the professional preparation, behavior, and effects of the teacher must be beyond reproach. The researcher, a teacher of Science, was deeply motivated to undertake this study with the ardent hope that some kind of objective data about the teachers handling Science is valuable data and information which will serve as a vital source to strengthen the implementation of the program, hence, this study.

Methods

The participants of the study were Grade Seven students of Camba High School, Arayat, Division of Pampanga during the school year 2018-2019. Inputs are students' valuation of their teachers' ingenious schemes and pedagogical approaches along with emotional development, social development, intellectual development, and meeting individual needs. Variables for correlation were gender and academic performance in Science. The descriptive method of research was employed using checklists, observations, and interviews to gather data. Statistical treatment of data was confined to the frequency count, percentage distribution, mean weighted average, and the analysis of variance [ANOVA].

Results

The majority of the students are receptive to their teachers' extensive utilization of pedagogical approaches in terms of meeting individual differences, enhancement of students' emotional development, the advancement of social skills, and the intensification of intellectual development. It shows that the majority of the students are appreciative of their teachers' ingenious schemes and students across gender differ in their valuation on the extensiveness of their teachers' pedagogical approaches in terms of enhancing emotional development and advancing social skills where female students tend to be more receptive on these two measures.

Discussions

The students' academic learning performance in Science is diverse. It implies that the teachers as perceived by the students are highly capable to be creative; thus, they have the makings to be artistic, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, original, and productive. Furthermore, it revealed that female students tend to be more receptive to their teachers' pedagogical approaches that focused on students' the enhancement of emotional development and the advancement of social skills.