4. Delving into the Experiences of Teachers
on the Social Promotion of Students:
A Qualitative Exploration
Lead Researcher:
Aimee Joy C. Conejero
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5. Delving into the Experiences of Teachers
on the Social Promotion of Students:
A Qualitative Exploration
Lead Researcher:
Aimee Joy C. Conejero
7. Delving into the Experiences of Teachers
on the Social Promotion of Students:
A Qualitative Exploration
Lead Researcher:
Aimee Joy C. Conejero
By:
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Today’s learners appear smarter, yet
they can’t read as their parents do and
they are addicted to the Internet. Even in
classes, their concentration is
questionable as they are uneasy to
simply sit and listen. They become alive
again through video presentations, group
activities and computer classes.
Nature of Learners
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Teachers/Educators
Generally use the traditional
education program which is
applicable to the learners in the
past.
They fail to realize that the new
learners are information technology
or digital learners.
12. 12
Millennial Learners
Spend more time talking to friends
over the phone, sending text
messages, interacting through the
social Internet media e.g. Facebook,
playing video games and surfing
the World Wide Web.
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Daily exposure to information
technology strengthens the brain.
Current technological revolution is
creating an intellectual revolution,
faster and better than ever before.
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”
One of the hottest and phenomenal topics in the field of Elementary Education now especially in public schools is about the social promotion that is regularly practice in schools today and degrade the importance of mastery and competence.
The central issue about this was the problems associated with students progressing through the educational system when they have not learned what they were supposed to learn.
Chen (2016) said that 85 large urban school districts do not have a policy endorsing social promotion. Yet a majority of teachers said they promoted students up that were not prepared for the next grade level. Reasons given for these social promotions were fear that high failure rates would reflect poorly on the school and school personnel, pressure exerted by principals and parents to promote unready students, knowledge that retention is ineffective, and the absence or insufficiency of effective educational alternatives to social promotion.
Abbott (2014) found that a majority of participating public-school teachers reported that they promoted academically underprepared students in the preceding year.
In one of the municipality here in Davao del Norte, public teachers there are practicing social promotion. We interviewed a particular teacher and she said that, academic promotion become part of their life as a teacher. Also on the part of their students who undergo academic promotion, they observed that some of those students are not really excelling in their subjects and just relying on the notion that “bawal mubagsak ang mga maestro”.
Additionally, some elementary teachers (names are intentionally not mentioned for confidentiality) from the Division of Tagum City stated that they are really practicing social promotion academically because of the EFA or Education for All programs, No Retention Policy and NCLB or No Child Left Behind Act. These policies and programs were implemented by the Department of Education. Moreover, if teachers have failed students they are obliged to conduct summer classes without pay, or if not, they will make a module for students if they opt not to conduct the summer class.
(names are intentionally not mentioned for confidentiality)
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”
But the concern is, mostly but not all, of our teachers nowadays are still using the traditional education program which is applicable to learners of the past. They fail to realized that the new generation of learners are not the kind of learners that they were before.
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”
One of the hottest and phenomenal topics in the field of Elementary Education now especially in public schools is about the social promotion that is regularly practice in schools today and degrade the importance of mastery and competence.
The central issue about this was the problems associated with students progressing through the educational system when they have not learned what they were supposed to learn.
Chen (2016) said that 85 large urban school districts do not have a policy endorsing social promotion. Yet a majority of teachers said they promoted students up that were not prepared for the next grade level. Reasons given for these social promotions were fear that high failure rates would reflect poorly on the school and school personnel, pressure exerted by principals and parents to promote unready students, knowledge that retention is ineffective, and the absence or insufficiency of effective educational alternatives to social promotion.
Abbott (2014) found that a majority of participating public-school teachers reported that they promoted academically underprepared students in the preceding year.
In one of the municipality here in Davao del Norte, public teachers there are practicing social promotion. We interviewed a particular teacher and she said that, academic promotion become part of their life as a teacher. Also on the part of their students who undergo academic promotion, they observed that some of those students are not really excelling in their subjects and just relying on the notion that “bawal mubagsak ang mga maestro”.
Additionally, some elementary teachers (names are intentionally not mentioned for confidentiality) from the Division of Tagum City stated that they are really practicing social promotion academically because of the EFA or Education for All programs, No Retention Policy and NCLB or No Child Left Behind Act. These policies and programs were implemented by the Department of Education. Moreover, if teachers have failed students they are obliged to conduct summer classes without pay, or if not, they will make a module for students if they opt not to conduct the summer class.
(names are intentionally not mentioned for confidentiality)
Because as we all know, the 21st century learners are increasingly digital, constantly connected, has instant access, communicators and creators and most of all they are so called “LEARNOLOGY”