Continuos Improvement Program: Project APAT

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Araling Panlipunan is known to be one of the challenging learning areas to teach at the elementary level. Pupils, most of the time, tend to lack interest in studying this particular discipline. They used to memorize names, years, events and other facts which lead to storing it in their short-term memory.Thus, E. Barretto Sr.ES has been at the bottom rank in terms of level of performance in National Achievement Test (NAT) for the past three years (SY 2013-2015) particularly in HEKASI which got the following ratings 45.05 in 2013, 41.38 in 2014 and 32.57% in 2015, the lowest rating among the years.Hence, the CI Team of EBSES came up with Project APAT: (Araling Panlipunan: Angat Tayo!) to flare up the performance of the school in the National Achievement Test.

METHODS

CI method was followed in this research. Listen to the Voice of the Customers, analyzed the result through the Pareto Chart and did a root-cause analysis. A carefully planned and prepared materials were used for the lesson integration execution. The focus group is composed of forty-five (45) grade VI pupils. This group underwent a five-item review test regularly. The daily result was gathered, analyzed results, recorded the data and presented it through qualitative analysis of MPS in graphical form. Weekly results were compared to see changes in the pupil's performance in Araling Panlipunan.

RESULTS

After the first three months of implementation having the baseline of 57.02, we only had a 0.48% increase in the performance of the grade VI pupils in the third quarter and successfully had a 3.07% increase in the fourth quarter. Parents and students noticed the changes in their performance in Araling Panlipunan after the implementation of the process. The result may not be as big as what we expected but the pupils' performance improved.

DISCUSSIONS

The project has improved the study habits of learners as well as their academic performance and in effect, it has boosted the morale of the teacher to teach the learning area. Moreover, teachers' efficiency and effectiveness influenced academic performance. We believe that if we practice the philosophy of continuous improvement, we can get a little bit better every single day.To continuously improve the academic performance of learners, a roll-out plan has been approved by the School Head. This plan aims to have a wider scope of learners both in Grades V and VI who will undergo the process of PROJECT APAT.