Remedial Teaching Strategies in Grade Seven students

Authors

  • Alfred William Son Sapad

Keywords:

Remedial teaching strategies, grade 7 students, TMCNHS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

It is important to determine the factors that contribute to students' poor performance. One of the studies identified these factors into seven categories: academic preparedness, attitudes, external factors, instruction and instructional materials, motivation, relevance, and study habits (Abour, Movahedzadeh, Adams & Dunning, 2013). Educators are thinking of the possible solutions to address the needs of students. Remediation class aims to assist students to catch up missed lessons or improve their performance inside the class. Nowadays, even if students are sent to remedial class, they still get failing grades. Through this study, strategies will be identified in teaching remedial classes and identify the best one.

METHODS

Descriptive and developmental design were used in the study. The teacher participants were selected from Grade seven in Trece Martires City National High School. Purposive sampling was employed. Five Science teachers from grade seven were interviewed. Questionnaires and interviews were the instruments used in gathering information. Interviews were transcribed based on informing concepts developed for the study.

RESULTS

The collected data was analyzed to examine the commonality among the different strategies that were utilized by the respondents. The paper presented a summary of respondents' characteristics in terms of age, gender, profession/ position, subject taught, and years in service. The research study identified the causes why students failed in their subject and the possible strategies that educators can adapt to help the learners.

DISCUSSIONS

This paper has shown the different strategies utilized in conducting remediation class and it also tackled the causes of poor performance of the learners inside the class. The reasons are the behavior of students towards the subject like absenteeism. Parents have no capacity to support their child financially in schooling and most of them are influenced by peers. Most students have difficulty in understanding the concepts which need computation skills such as solution concentration in Chemistry. The students are not really equipped with the basic skills in Mathematics which is supposedly learned from elementary grade. Most of the respondents used modular approach in teaching remedial classes. They agreed that having remedial class will enhance students' performance but it also depends on how they respond to a certain strategy. One student might improve with such specific strategy while one student might not.

Published

2019-01-18