KSA Innovative Learning Materials in Teaching Kindergarten Pupils in Silanganan Elementary School

Title :               KSA Innovative Learning Materials in Teaching Kindergarten
                         Pupils in Silanganan Elementary School

Researcher :   MICHELLE P. DIAMANTE

Degree :           Master of Arts in Teaching Early Grades                        

Adviser :          DR. DIZON

School :           University of Caloocan City

Year :               March, 2018

ABSTRACT

Philippine law expressly supports education for all regardless of status in life. This is why basic education is supposed to be free, but there are times when provisions for resources are just not enough. Teachers turn to the Internet and innovate, but the resulting materials are usually not apt for Filipino children. Thus, it is high time that innovative learning materials fit for Filipino learners especially those taking basic education be developed.

This study focused on the Development and Evaluation of Indigenous Learning Materials (ILM) in Teaching Kindergarten Pupils in  using evaluation, descriptive, and quasi-experimental methods of research. The respondents are 40 pupils underwent pre-test, instruction using the ILM, and post-test on their gross motor skills, fine motor skills, self help skills, receptive language skills, expressive language skills, cognition skills, and socio-emotional skills. After which, T-test and weighted mean are used to gauge if there is significant difference in the test scores.

From the findings, it was found out that cognition skills were the most enhanced using the ILM, followed by socio-emotional skills, receptive language skills, expressive language skills, self-help skills, and fine motor skills. Improvement in these areas are found to be significant, but gross motor skills only showed a little improvement. Also, based on the ECCD checklist, all the pupils registered overall development after the post-test, a far cry from the pre-test when the comment is to suggest delay in development. All in all, the ILM is proven to be highly effective in improving the learning skills of kindergarten pupils. But confusion on the part of both the teachers and the pupils, time constraint, support, and lack of materials challenged the researcher during the conduct of the study.

Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommends further support of the implementation of the Innovative Learning Materials in schools for the development of cognition skills, socio-emotional skills, receptive language skills, expressive language skills, self help skills, and fine motor skills of kindergarten pupils. It is also recommended to devise another chapter in the ILM or a supplementary program to enhance the gross motor skills of kindergarten pupils, which is the only area found to have the least significant improvement in the conduct of the study. The researcher also encourages the school administrator and other stakeholders as well as the Department of Education to allocate funding for at least the circulation and training in the use and development of Innovative Learning Materials for kindergarten teachers who would like to get ideas on how to run their classes, and suggests further studies to enhance the developed ILM so it will be able to catapult the overall development of pupils beyond the average level, and on more ILMs for Filipino students from Filipino educators.