Extent of Effectiveness of Employing Differentiated Instruction in Teaching Araling Panlipunan in Area 3 Division of Batangas: Basis for a Proposed Action Plan

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The attainment of goals of Araling Panlipunan depends to a great extent on the teacher's competencies in teaching the subject. It is therefore a challenging responsibility which necessitates the teacher's selection and application of the most effective teaching strategies that suit the needs, interests, and capabilities of different groups of students. It is in the foregoing connection that demands a need to test the effectiveness of teaching strategies.

METHODS

Since the extent and effectiveness of the said strategy will be correlated withstudents' academic performance, it is appropriate to use a combination of the descriptive and correlation methods of research. It focuses on the prevailing situations about the use of differentiated instruction.

RESULTS

The use of differentiated instruction should be continuous and consistent as it is instrumental in the students' development of varied skills and competencies, they need in the study of other Social Sciences subjects in higher grade levels. Second, skills and competencies the students gained from the use of differentiated instruction will be of great value in their development as citizens. Third, differentiated instruction can also be applied in teaching other subject areas. Fourth, teachers should be more knowledgeable and competent in the use of differentiated instruction so that when the need for further innovations arise, their readiness could be made more permanent. Fifth, schools need to conduct a school-based seminar workshop for teachers on the use of differentiated instruction to ensure that every teacher would be more acquainted and competent in the use of such type of instruction. Sixth, the effectiveness of the utilization of differentiated instruction must be tested in other grade levels where it is deemed applicable. Finally, there must be standards and guidelines in the use of differentiated instruction not only in the schools covered by this study but in other schools as well.

DISCUSSIONS

Students may be encouraged even more to participate in all other classroom activities for their further development of varied competencies. Teachers may not only live up to the practices they currently employ in utilizing differentiated instruction but may also try alternative but innovative ways to improve and enhance said practices further. The studies to be conducted must be aimed to further improve the teachers' utilization of differentiated instruction in the teaching-learning process.