Creative Approaches in the integration of Department of Education's Core Values in Araling Panlipunan in the Division of San Pablo City

Abstract

NTRODUCTION

Educators, policymakers, and researchers agree that teachers have a significant impact on student learning. They also know that effective teachers do more than promote academic learning" they teach the whole child. Teachers help promote the social and emotional learning skills of students through collaborating with others, monitoring their own behavior, and making responsible decisions. With fulfilling the duty of the state to produce globally competitive Filipinos who are Maka-Diyos, Maka-tao, Makakalikasan, and Makabansa, the Department of Education as the agency of the government concerned in providing basic education services to the youth has been strengthening the practice associated with the development of Core Values through Department of Education Order No. 8. s. 2015.

METHODS

This study employed the mixed method approach. This research adopted purposive sampling as a method that can be used to identify the primary participants in a study. Participants were those twenty teachers (20) who have been teaching Social Studies 9 in the Division of San Pablo City. The researcher used a questionnaire checklist on the application of the approaches in the integration of core values by teachers, and interview guides for the focus group discussion to obtain sufficient information.

RESULTS

The research revealed that Araling Panlipunan teachers find difficulty in the integration of Department of Education core values. The study found out that the effective integration of Department of Education Core Values is really in the hands of the teachers as classroom managers. Furthermore this study noted that there were four themes of approaches were public school araling panlipunan teachers based their strategies in teaching these were: Individualized teaching Approach, Approach for a Class, Collaborative Approach and Technology Aided Approach. They noted on focus group discussion that there is no effective integration because of their unfamiliarity with various approaches, lack of specialized training, K to 12 materials do not support integration and numerous competencies to cover, time allotment, and too much focus on the content.

DISCUSSIONS

The results of the study demonstrate the need for arealistic araling panlipunan teachers' integration of Core Values and acquisition of instructional and pedagogical ability specifically in the thrust of integration of core values. In order to be a creative, effective and efficient araling panlipunan teachers mastery of content competence, instructional competence, and evaluation competence must be developed.