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IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC PERFOR-
MANCE THROUGH PROJECT DREAM –
DIFFERENT RESOURCES, ENGAGE-
MENT AND ACTIVITIES TO MOTIVATE
LEARNERS
Eddie F. Garcia
Master Teacher II
Sta Justina National High School
IMPROVING THE CURSIVE HANDWRIT-
ING OF GRADE V-MERCURY PUPILS
THROUGH CURSIVE WRITING ACTIVI- ABSTRACT
TIES USING CONTEXTUALIZATION IN Students’ academic gain and learn-
ARALING PANLIPUNAN CONCEPTS ing performance is affected by numer-
Sharon B. Abonales ous factors. When people hear the term
ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE LEVEL Caramoan Central School “academic performance” they often
OF GRADE V LEARNERS THROUGH DIF- think of a person’s Grade Point Average
FERENT ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING (GPA). Gasco et al. (2017) noted that
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE (PROJECT ABSTRACT motivation plays an important role in
DATES) The study was conducted at Grade learning because it greatly explains
academic performance. Students are
Lucia B. Guanzon V- Mercury class of Caramoan Central supposedly capable of instigating, modi-
School, Caramoan Camarines Sur for
Master Teacher 1 the School Year 2017 – 2018 to improve fying, and sustaining information. Fur-
Bato South Central School, Bato District the cursive handwriting of Grade V- ther, research showed that students’
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AWARE- Mercury pupils through cursive writing motivations and strategy use have some
NESS AND RESPONSIVENESS OF impact on student performance.
activities such as 26 alphabet and 26
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN THE ABSTRACT words, 20 phrases, 15 short sentences,
This study desires to determine the
5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF Teachers need to provide experiences 10 hashtag making, 5 Tigsik writing, 3 effect of Project Different Resources,
CAMARINES SUR which challenge the learners’ current paragraphs, 2 short poems, and 1 pho- Engagement and Activities to Motivate
Alberto L. Hernandez understanding in order to help them re- to captioning of scenic spots found in Learners (DREAM) in improving the aca-
structure their ideas and thinking skills.
Principal I This is the main concern of every science Caramoan using contextualization in demic performance of Grade 11 Physical
San Francisco Elementary School educator today. K to 12 science curricu- Araling Panlipunan Concepts. Education (PE) and Health learners of
Balatan District lum is learner-centered and inquiry- A total of twenty-eight (28) pupils Sta. Justina National High School for
school year 2019-2020. Interventions
based, emphasizing the use of evidence in were used in the study wherein after the along this project are sub-projects
Pre-Test, twenty-two (22) out of twenty
ABSTRACT constructing explanations eight (28) respondents, were identified LEARN-ing, GAWAD, COrP, Inter-Class
The study determined the disas- The participants of this investigation in the Level of Needs Improvement in Chapter Quiz Bee, DREAM Wall and Re-
were 37 grade five learners in section
ter risk reduction awareness and Capricorn of Bato South Central School in Cursive Handwriting. The top 3 factors ward System. This employed descriptive
responsiveness of school administra- that affect the handwriting of the pupils method of research in answering the
tors in public elementary schools in the Bato, Camarines Sur. The Pre-test results were 1) the pupils are not comfortable research questions. The researcher used
in Science of Grade V-Capricorn Learners
5th Congressional District of Camarines for the school year 2019-2020 is with a to write with the kind of table/desk/ validated self-made questionnaire to
Sur, along the potential hazards and chair for writing activities 2) pupils did gather the data, and statistically ana-
risks, the level of disaster risk reduction performance level of 31.61, it increased to not know how to write the letters of the lyzed using frequency, weighted mean
51.78 in the First Periodical Test Results
awareness and responsiveness in the alphabet in cursive form, and 3) pupils and percentage. Results revealed that
public elementary schools as perceived but still with a gap of 23.68 to the plan- usually race against time in putting the project implemented improved the
ning standard of 75. Thus, the results
by the stakeholders along disaster drive the Science teacher to innovate ideas into writing. On the top five writ- academic performance of learners from
preparedness, disaster management, ing activities best improved the cursive 83.81% - Satisfactory to 91.125% - Out-
disaster mitigation, response manage- activities that will en- writing of the respondents, Likert scale standing. The project implemented was
hance the
ment, and recovery management, the perfor- were used and simple tabulation were highly accepted by the learners with a
test of significant correlation of the done ranked from 1 to 5 wherein Cap- weighted mean of 4.35. With this result,
mance
perceptions, towards the development level of the tioning rank 1st, Poem writing it goes to show that the inno-
of DRR Contingency Plan. subject. rank 2nd, vation Project DREAM im-
plemented can be
The study tested the null hypothe- With the im- Tigsik adopted by other
sis that there is no significant correla- plementation of the writ- subject teach-
tion of the perceptions of the stake- different activities in the Project ing ers
holders on the level of disaster risk Dates it obtained a general weighted 3rd,
reduction awareness and responsive- Hashtag rank 4th
ness of the school administrators in the mean of 4.66 with a verbal interpretation and Paragraph writ-
of Very Much Effective. Thus it created an
public elementary schools. The re- ing rank 5th. For
spondents of the study were comprised impact to the performance Level of Grade problem number 4,
V Capricorn in Science. The Quarterly
of the following: school heads, teach- Assessment results shows 51.78 in the first simple difference was
ers, and parents of public elementary quarter with no interventions done be- used with the mean
schools of the 5th District, Division of came 77.39 in the second quarter with a score to find the significant
Camarines Sur. Using the descriptive- significant difference of 25.78 and reached difference between the level of cursive
evaluative-correlational method, the handwriting skills before and after the and
degree of correlation of the responses the above target of 75 after the implemen- interventions wherein among the twen- can
tation of different activities in teaching
was measured. The statistical tools Science. The implementation of the pro- ty eight (28) pupils six (6) has significant be
used were the following: frequency level of improvement, nine (9) belongs institu-
ject continued in the third Quarter and it
distribution, percentage technique, increases the performance level of grade V to moderately significant and one (1) tionalized in the school.
weighted mean, and Kendall’s Coeffi- learners to 93.46. less significant. Keywords: evaluation,
cient of Concordance (W). cursive handwriting and AP contextual-
ization Keywords— Academic Perfor-
Keywords: Enhancing, Performance
Keywords: Disaster Risk Reduction level, Different Activities, Elementary mance, resources, activities, engage-
ment, descriptive method, Philip-
Awareness and Responsiveness, Science Keywords: evaluation, cursive hand- pines.
Hazards and Risks writing and AP contextualization