Improving Performance Level of Grade Six Students through the Use of Strategic intervention Materials

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Improving the quality of instruction for the betterment of education depends on the teacher's performance in delivering his daily lesson. With this, teachers must implement innovative teaching strategies to deal with the challenges of achieving the goal of quality education. However, attaining this goal will be difficult considering the existing problems met by the school teachers on the low-performance level of the students specifically in Science, which mainly the purpose of this study. The researcher utilized Strategic Intervention Materials (SIM) as a tool in teaching Science lesson to improve the performance level of Grade Six students in Antipolo Elementary School who were having low PL in the subject.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was employed to determine the effectiveness of the Strategic Intervention Materials (SIM) in improving the performance level of the students in Science. Purposive sampling was used in selecting the respondents in this study who were given the pre-test before the implementation of the SIM. Also, the posttest was also administered after its utilization to determine differences in their performance.

RESULTS

The performance level of the students before the utilization of Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) was low and under the baseline set by the Department of Education that was determined by analyzing the pre-test result. However, the posttest result illustrated a better student's performance level which was under the developing, approaching mastery, mastered and advanced level of mastery. The findings imply that SIM is an effective tool in improving the performance level of the students in Science.

DISCUSSIONS

Science teachers should implement the use of SIM in Science teaching and its development with skills/competencies which were not included in the researcher's SIM. Interventions and innovative methods and strategies in teaching should be employed since they have positive effects on pupils' performance. It implies that the use of this intervention material is an important strategy to help fight if not eliminate the existing problem of the low-performance level of the pupils.