The Methods and Strategies Used in Teaching Araling Panlipunan in the Nasugbu West Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Philippine education system keeps on aiming new trends of teaching useful in molding children. Teachers are liable in knowledge, professional preparedness, health, personal experiences, and social understanding. Our country provides that all schools shall develop moral character, personal discipline, civic conscience, vocational efficiency and duties of citizenship. In obedience to these provisions, they are training boys and girls to become good Filipinos through teaching Araling Panlipunan at the elementary level. Specifically, it sought answers to the following questions: 1. What is the extent of the mastery of the subject matter of teachers in teaching Araling Panlipunan? 2. What is the extent of the methods and strategies used by teachers in teaching Araling Panlipunan?3. What proposed action plan be designed to enhance the teaching of Araling Panlipunan?

METHODS

The researcher used the descriptive survey research in gathering data among teachers particularly in Nasugbu West Central School Questionnaires was disseminated to the teacher respondents. The description is used for frequencies, averages and other statistical calculations. Often the best approach, prior to writing descriptive research, is to conduct a survey investigation. The participants of this study were fifty Grade Four pupils and studying at the Nasugbu West Central School. The fifty pupils were randomly selected using a purely random sampling method.

RESULTS

The Araling Panlipunan teachers assessed their teaching strategies and methods, the results were: Most teachers were high to a very high extent on the mastery of the subject matter 2) The performance of teachers with regard to methods and strategies in teaching Araling Panlipunan were high to a very high extent. 3) The designed Araling Panlipunan Teaching Strategies Model was made to further strengthen the teaching of Araling Panlipunan.

DISCUSSIONS

The results showed the need for different strategies and methods of teaching Araling Panlipunan for enhancement of teaching performance of the Teachers and the achievement of pupils in AP subject. The recommendations: Araling Panlipunan teachers must be encouraged to pursue their graduate studies. School administrators should provide training/seminars, and workshops, to further upgrade their teaching competencies. School Managers and teachers should incline themselves with methodologies used in teaching Araling Panlipunan for better teaching, Implementation of the proposed action plan.