Pupils Orientation and participative styles help to achieve an effective and successful classroom management that is a leeway to quality education. Empowerment is the process that provides greater autonomy to pupils sharing of relevant ideas and making them control over factors affecting their learning performance. The provision of quality education is the ultimate goal of the Philippine educational system. Many innovations were done and strategies were developed but still we are in midst of confusion and wilderness on how to achieve that ultimate goal.
One of the reasons why pupils can’t comprehend and acquire that quality of learning is that conviction that their contribution as part of the classroom management process doesn’t have an impact in the performance of the school. This conviction would lead to low-self efficacy which is the feeling of powerlessness. Any pupil who feels less powered will perform less and ineffectively.
Fortunately, pupil’s perception of low levels of self-efficacy can be raised by empowering them. Empowerment helps remove the conditions that cause powerlessness while enhancing their self– efficacy. It will help them to feel important that their contributions as a member of their group have great impact on its performance and also as an individual member of the class.
There are different ways how can a teacher empower her pupils. The provision of guided experience will result in initial successes thus helping her pupils to achieve mastery. Giving them discretion over their performance as member of the whole class but holding them accountable for results. Letting them observe and analyze the other groups within the class who became successful in their group activities. Providing emotional support and using reinforcements such as praising, encouragement and feed backing to lift up their confidence.
The teachers’ participative styles would develop involvement, contribution and responsibility on her pupils. She will learn to share her classroom management responsibilities for those who perform the work. In this case, the pupils will mentally and emotionally participate in the classroom improvements and for the entire school. It will also encourage pupils to contribute thus enhancing their creativity, their own resources of initiative towards the achievement of quality learning.
Empowerment and Participation have excellent potential for developing pupils’ attitudes towards the achievement of quality education, but it is difficult to practice and can fail if poorly applied. The continuous search for ways how to uplift the quality education in the Philippines doesn’t end but we must try to find the bottom line of the real problem. It might be just the poor classroom management and empowerment and participation could be the key to quality education.
By: MRS. JENEATH G. BAUTISTA |Teacher I | Hermosa Elementary School | Hermosa, Bataan
