Learner's Religious Activities and Classroom Behavior: Basis for Values Enhancement Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

At present, a lot of children misbehave inside the classroom, they do not even participate during their religion classes. Hence, the researcher investigated the learner's religious activities and classroom behavior as a basis for values enhancement program.

METHODS

The descriptive-evaluative design was employed in this research. Moreover, questionnaires were used in data gathering. There were 149 learners and 16 teacher-advisers who were chosen as the respondents of the study. Respondents were given a task to answer the questionnaires. They were also exposed to focus group discussion.

RESULTS

The results of the study showed that learners are often engaged in different religious activities in the home, church, and school. Although learners sometimes showed favorable classroom behavior there were also times when they misbehave inside the classroom. Furthermore, correlation analysis showed that there is a strong positive correlation between the learner's religious activities and classroom behavior.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate the need for parents to prioritize and give more time in teaching and molding their children to love God and guide them in their spiritual development. Children should be made to realize that being religious has greater benefits, especially in their daily activities and decision-making. The teachers should integrate into their daily lessons some religious concepts and the importance of engaging the children in religious activities in the home, church, and school. The values enhancement program designed should be used by the school to strengthen the values formation and improvement of classroom behavior of pupils.