Teaching Strategies in Improving Reading Skills and its Relationship with Pupils’ Academic Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teaching strategies refer to methods used to help pupils learn the desired course contents and be able to develop achievable goals in the future. These identify the different available learning methods to enable them to develop the right strategy to deal with the target group identified. Assessment of the learning capabilities of pupils provides a key pillar in development of a successful teaching strategy (Armstrong, 2012).

One of the greatest challenges facing today's school leaders is the challenge of raising the expertise of their teachers. The call for teachers' effectiveness is becoming a significant part of the national discussion on education

This research aims to assess the different teaching strategies utilized by teachers in improving reading skills. This study will further give answers to the relationship of those strategies to the pupils' academic performance

METHODS

The researcher employed the descriptive survey process.

RESULTS

The variations gained on achieved relationship between the employment of teaching strategies in improving the reading skills of pupils and academic performance of pupils depend on the academic subject that utilizes the approach. The findings of the study imply the necessity of teachers' competency and preparedness in using different teaching strategies to fully achieve the goal of the K-12 curriculum, along with the schools' consistent monitoring and evaluation of the status of pupils reading skills.

DISCUSSIONS

There was no significant difference between the perceptions of school heads and teachers on the teaching strategies employed by the teachers in improving reading skills of their pupils and no relationship between the perceptions of the two-groups of respondents on the teaching strategies employed by the teachers in improving reading skills of their pupils and academic performance of pupils.