Values Integration in the Different Subject Areas: Its Importance to the Personality Development of Pupils in Bilogbilog Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Values Integration is a channel of values development through the teaching-learning activities in the different learning areas. Department of Education Secretary Leonor M. Briones stated that "I am not saying that the youth's values are failing but the world is changing. The values of our society and of grown-ups are also changing. That is why we want to enhance our curriculum and focus more on teaching good manners and right conduct in schools”. Hence, there is a need for teachers to know how to teach Integration of Values into their subject areas at the elementary level and how to inculcate them in the minds of the pupils.

METHODS

This study was done at Bilogbilog Elementary School for SY 2018-2019. The researcher used as respondents ten (10) teachers assigned in this school. A written consent approved by the school head was provided. The descriptive method of research was employed in this study. As the term implied, the method involved in collecting data to test the hypothesis concerning the current states of the subject of the study. The questionnaire checklist was the main instrument used in gathering the data.

RESULTS

There is no significant relationship between the teaching approaches employed by teachers and the values acquired by pupils in the integration of the values education program. The computed value of 0.247 is less than the tabular value of 0.602 which means that there is no significant relationship between the teaching approaches and acquiring the Maka-Diyos value. There is no significant relationship between the teaching approaches and the values acquired by the pupils through the integration of the values education program such as Makatao, Makakalikasan, and Makabansa. The computed values of -0.250, 0.104 and 0.394 are less than the tabular value of 0.553, 0.812 and 0.666 respectively, thus null hypothesis is accepted.

DISCUSSIONS

Teachers are encouraged to be creative in using different teaching approaches in making use of situations to facilitate the pupil's values development as well as on his perspective skills to identify a lesson that would serve as entry points for specific values. Conducting Learning Action Cell about the findings of this study wherein they may come up with a lecture, demonstration teaching, and strategic intervention materials. It focuses on the different teaching approaches that will develop the pupils' values specifically Makatao and Makabansa wherein these two values ranked 3rd and 4th in the observation of teachers in pupil's behavior.