Difficulties of Grade IV Pupils in Coping MAPEH Subject
Keywords:
MAPEH, difficulties, skills, learning activities, copeAbstract
INTRODUCTION
MAPEH is one of the subjects in Elementary education; it tackles about music, arts, physical education, and health. It helps students to easily discover and learn things about what they can get if they will enhance their potentials in MAPEH activities. In this regard, the purpose of the study was to know the difficulty of pupils in dealing with the subjects and to develop and enhance their performance in MAPEH through preparing different activities.
METHODS
The study used the descriptive method to obtain the objective of the study. Forty-two pupils in grade IV pupils at the intermediate level in Quilib-San Roque Elementary School are involved as respondents of this study. The weighted mean and frequency are the statistical tools used to analyze the data.
RESULTS
The study reveals the following results: (1) MAPEH, which stands for music, arts, physical education, and health, has great importance in everyday life, it teaches self-management skills and motor skills that can be used to plan for and perform life-long physical activity(2) pupils strongly agree that they find difficulty in using the appropriate musical terminology to indicate simple dynamics and variations in tempo, sharing ideas about the practice of the different cultural communities, explaining health and skill-related fitness components, demonstrating the ability to interpret the information provided (3) lack of materials to be used in the activities, insufficient time allotment in doing the activities were the most commonly challenges they meet (4) the prepared learning activities are intended to cope with their difficulties in MAPEH subjects.
DISCUSSIONS
The results revealed that the pupils find difficulties in learning MAPEH lessons due to their challenges meet during the discussion and activities. Further, it is found out that there is a need to come up with different learning activities that would motivate the learners to strive harder as they try to understand different lessons in MAPEH subject.
