The Effect of Science Teachers' Teaching Style on Grade Six Pupils' Motivation in Tagaytay City Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

As stressed in the Educator's Diary published in 1995, "Teaching takes place only when learning does." Considering one's teaching style and how it affects students' motivation greatly concerns the researchers. Although we might think of other factors, however, the emphasis has been geared towards the effect of teacher's teaching style and student motivation. For this reason, this research aims to determine the Effect of Science Teachers' Teaching Style on Grade Six Pupils' Motivation in Tagaytay City Central School.

METHODS

The descriptive-survey method was used in this study and descriptive means that surveys are made in order to discover some aspects of teacher's teaching style and the word survey denotes an investigation of a field to ascertain the typical condition is obtaining. The researchers used a questionnaire, observations, interviews, pupils' class work and other pupil outputs for this study. The questionnaires were administered before and after strategies were applied. Observation refers to what he/she sees taking place in the classroom based on the pupil's daily participation. Pupil interviews were done informally before, during, and after classes. Several categories affecting motivation were being presented in the questionnaire.

RESULTS

To determine the Effect of Science Teachers' Teaching Style on Grade Six Pupils' Motivation in Tagaytay City Central School, we chose a sample of 280 pupils who were in Grade VI level. The students were enrolled for SY 2015-2016 Based on the findings, it showed that 94% of the students strongly agreed that they have a good relationship with their Science teacher, and no one disagreed. 98% noticed that their Science teachers used materials that were easy to understand. 91% said that their teachers presented the lessons in many ways. 70% of the students said that they understood the way their Science teachers explained the lesson. 95% said that they got feedback from their Science teacher.

DISCUSSIONS

When the teachers used materials that were easy to understand, presented the lessons in many ways, explained the lesson, maintained a good relationship with their pupils and give feedback, their pupils showed excitement in attending their classes. They will believe that Science is fun and interesting, and that Science will become important for them and they will love it.

According to the responses, it can be concluded that when a teacher's teaching style would fit in a class and is used consistently, then pupils are motivated to learn.