PERCEPTIONS 0F TEACHER’S IN SAN MIGUEL

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ON LACK OF INTEREST AND

MOTIVATION AMONG STUDENTS

CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND IT`S BACKGROUND

Introduction

In the Philippines, socio-economically advantaged students in reading by 88 score

points in Program for International Student Assessment2018. This is smaller than the

average difference between the two groups (89 score points) across The Organization for

Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Some of the more common causes

of school problems are caused of lack in care of their Parents, School Problems, Family

Problems, Depression, Broken Relationships, Bullying etc. The fact the some students

with apparently high scholastic aptitude do very poorly in high school while others with

only mediocre ability do very well has presented a challenge to many educators.

The researchers have those students who are habitually in Lack of interest and

Motivation. This classroom management post is for all the teachers who struggle to reach

those kids who shall when you look at them, recall when you are near them, and refuse to

do what there asked.

Students lack of interest or motivation. Students do not believe that their performance.

Students are not motivated by the structure and allocation of rewards. Students do not

perceive me classroom climate as supportive. Individual students do not perceive suffer

from physical, mental, on other personal problems that affected motivation.

Horenstein (2006) described the psychological problems of students who seek

counseling services and attempts to determine whether the problems presented by these

students differ in any way from the types of emotional problems reported by the High

School population studied by previous investigators.

To develop programs that effectively target student problem behavior, there is a

need for a greater understanding of students’ perspectives of their lack of motivation and

that of others (Bradshaw, Mitchell & Leaf, 2010)

According to De Kemp et al. (2009) surveyed 1332 students aged 11-14 to assess

their level of self-control over their impulses, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well

as the frequency of their participation in the event or program.

A positive emotional state that is the result of harmony between the sum of

specific on the one hand and the personal needs and expectations towards the school on

the other hand” (Engels et al., 2004, p.128)

Lack of motivation students can be a very troublesome issue. Some students

acquire a lack of motivation because of the fear of failure. In the Philippines, statistics

show that upwards of students are disengaged from learning. If a student is not engaged

in class , it could lead to outbursts of negative behavior. The student can disrupt other

students in the classroom by talking, sleeping, etc.

 Motivation has be center of attention among teachers throughout the years

because it constitutes the back bone of learning process. Learning is a complicated and

dynamic process, and learning in real sense gets completed through motivation. Since to

learn builds one of the basic elements of learning, students take an important step on the

road to learning through motivation. However, students may sometimes lose their

willingness and interest towards lesson which puts a major barrier in front of effective

language learning . Therefore, study is concerned with lack of motivation. To being with,

this study explores the reasons of disinterest students display towards language-learning.

Next, it dwells upon the way of promoting motivation of the students showing reluctance

against foreign language learning. The teachers and students in a high school were the

participants of this study. The data were collected through classroom an student

observation, interview with teachers and questionnaires to the teacher.

The researchers know the reasons on person’s that have a Lack of interest. In the

classroom, a teacher uses discipline to ensure routine is maintained, school rules are

enforced, and the students are in safe learning environment.

Students see little value in the course or its content.

Students do not believe that their efforts will improve their performance.

Students are demotivated by the structure and allocation of rewards.

Students do not perceive the classroom climate as supportive.

Students have other priorities that compete for their time and attention.
Individual students may suffer from physical, mental, or other personal problems that

affect motivation.

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Identify and published good practice.

Identify skills and competencies for does managing research data in university

repositories.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The researchers identify the academic behavior and academic performance of the

students in Junior to Senior High School.

Statement of the problem:

Specifically, it answered the following questions:

1. What are the academic behavior of the students as previewed by the teacher

respondents?

2. What are the factors why the students lose their interest & motivation with their

studies?
 3. How does lack of interest & motivation affect the students in terms of the

following:

3.1 Academic performance.

3.2 Academic behavior.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The result of the study was useful to the following:

To the teachers: The researchers aimed to open the minds of the teachers that both

agreeable and disagreeable students must be given an equal chance to success. This can

be done by making an analysis to why the students perform academically in differing

manner. As a teacher and an a adviser, knowledge regarding the students interest and

motivation will provide them a better and appropriate solutions to problems encountered

among the students in San Miguel National High School. Teachers help the students to

manage the interest to studying and help to persude their dreams. As a teacher or adviser,

observe the academic performance and also the academic behavior among students in

Junior to Senior High School.

To the students: The result of the study would provide the students with valuable

information that could be used as basisfor improving their own learning skills and

attitudes. Findings of the study may be able to give the students a clearer observable

attitudes manifested by the students-respondents during the conduct of academic activity.

Academic performance: The researchers ask questions to the teachers to how students

develop their academic performance. Adviser in the classroom may interview the
students about the situation that can encounter in our daily life and also teachers clearer

the students in the schoolwork.

To the Future Researchers: Finally, the future researchers can also gain insights from

the result of the study. They could use this as reference material for a more

comprehensive study.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

The study covered the Senior High School students of San Miguel National High

School. SY 2019-2020 include in the study are the teacher’s in Junior to Senior High

School and section adviser concerned of the respondents.

The study focus on experiences of teacher’s towards students who have Lack of

Interest and Motivation among students Junior to Senior High School. The researchers

observe the behavior of the concerned students and to observe the low academic

performance. This paper focused to find out the effect of teacher’s behavior on academic

performance of students.

The researchers conducted during School Year 2019-2020 at San Miguel National

High School (SMNHS).

The study also included questionnairs, observations and interview.

 CHAPTER 2

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

The chapter presents foreign literature and studies as well as local literature and studies to
gain clearer perspective of the topic under investigation.

Foreign literature

Galiher (2006) and Darling (2005), used GPA to measure student performance the main
focus in the student performance for the particular semester. Some other researchers used
test results or pervious years result since they are studying performance for the specific
subject or year ( Hijazi and Naqvi, 2006 and Hake, 2007). Many researchers have
discussed the different factors that affect the student academic performance in their
research. There are two types of factors that affect students’ academic performance.
These are internal and external classroom factors and these factors affect the student
performance. Internal classroom factors includes students competence in English, class
schedule , class size, English textbooks, Class test results, Learning Facilities, Homework
and Teachers role in the class.

External classroom factors include extra curriculum activities, family problems, work and
financial, social and other problems.

Research studies shows that students performance depends on many factor such as
learning facilities, gender and age differences etc. that can affect students performance
(Hansen, Joe B, 2000). Harb and El-Shaaarawi (2006) found that the most important
factor with positive effect on students performance is Parental Involvement.

According to Catherine Gewerts, there was a survey given to 467 dropout students from
25 major cities. This survey was given to them to know the reason for their dropping out
of school, and 69% of them say the reason for dropping out was due to lack of
motivation. (H.S. Dropouts Say Lack of Motivation Top Reason to Quit) Although there
are multiple reasons to why many students in school lack motivation, there’s techniques
to improve this problem.

Technology, T.V’s, and the social media can cause a student to be lazy to his/her work.
“Survey conducted by Pew Research Center, 72 percent of high school and 78 percent of
college students spend time on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.” says Technician.

Everyday students are anxious to go on social media or watch T.V and spend countless
hours obtaining these activities, and when they do they’re paying a price. The time they
take to be on technology for fun, is time they could have used to study for a test or
complete assignments. This then leads to the falling behind of school work.

“It’s not technology that makes us lazy, is the way we use it that does,” says Carolina
Coviello. There are some people that say technology doesn’t cause laziness but the truth
behind that in my opinion is, it does. Students today can’t discipline themselves to limit
their time on technology, so in that case, technology does make students lazy.

A Seattle 10th grade student admits she spent her time doing her homework less when
she got a smartphone. (Disadvantages of Social Networking: Surprising Insights from
Teens) That’s the environment students depend on now, the social media, the new era of
this generation can’t go a day without technology.

So if someone argues technology doesn’t make a student lazy, then why are there many
students spending less time on school work and more time on social media?

Falling behind in school because procrastination from the media can lead to stress and
overthinking. Overthinking can be in terms of: thinking that you won’t be able to get
everything done, or thinking everything has to be done at once.

Web MB says the one reason causing stress is having a heavy workload or having too
much responsibility. The more procrastination takes place, the more work students are
neglecting, and the more they fall behind. All this buildup then leads to the weakening of
their actions, and when they finally realize how much work they’re missing they lack the
motivation to do any of them.

In some cases, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in a student aren’t being met. If a student
doesn’t have the basic physiological needs including: sleep, food, clothing, and shelter
then the student may not have energy and the ability to focus in school, causing them to
fall behind and not want to finish the work.

Experts from an education textbook says without some of these physiological needs then
a student can’t focus in school because the thing they would be focusing on is finding
ways to fulfill these needs.

For instance if a student was hungry in class, then they’d have a hard time paying
attention to the teacher, and focus on wanting to eat food. So without these needs then
students won’t want to do anything until they get what they need/want.

Although there are reasons to why students lack motivation in school to do work, they
can do something about it. The first thing to improving students to work more on school
work is to put their phones away, and learn to discipline themselves from the hours they
spend on social media. When they do this, they have more time to complete assignments
and have a lesser chance of falling behind and the buildup of stress.
A study by London School of Economics says when the schools banned students from
having their phones, their test scores boosted 14 percent. So the less time they spent on
phones, the better their test scores got.

Another great technique is positive thinking. Students should take time to think about the
great outcome they will get in the future. For instance when I’m stressed about all the
school work I have at the moment, I think about graduation.

Another way of positive thinking can be identifying what’s stressing them out and ways
they can solve it, when they do this they calm the stresses they’re feeling and have a
greater ability to want to work. Students can also create lists of what needs to be done and
make a plan throughout the week of how much work to do each day.

If there’s no other option for students, having students create a rewards system can help
motivate them to do their work. Although some people say creating this system makes
students demand rewards for doing their work, it’s still a working technique. Without this
rewards system being their last option, then they won’t want to do their work.

Teachers can help students create plans for the week on what to work on, for instance: if
a student completes 5 assignments for a class then they can go out with friends for a day,
or if they worked on homewor

RESEARCH LOCALE

This study will be conducted on San Miguel National High School during the
school year 2019-2020. The shool is located at Scuala St., San Juan, San Miguel,
Bulacan, Central Luzon Philippines. The first batch of the class started in year 1946. The
San Miguel National High School has an estimated student population of 6,000 to 7,000
students which includes the Junior High School and Senior High School coming out
majority from the town and other nearby towns like San Ildefonso and Province of
Pampanga.

San Miguel National High School, formerly San Miguel High School is one of the
most active and known School in the province of Bulacan. The School opened its first
class in the 1946, with a two-storey wooden building (also known as the main building)
structured at the main entrance of the campus. After a successful pilot school test, the
school land area also increase as famous and generous families in the town donated land
for school expansion.
 Conceptual Framework

INPUT

Experience of the teacher’s among students

who have lack of interest and motivation.

PROCESS

Unstructured interview observation.

OUTPUT

 To know the experienced of each GAS

students about lack of interest and
motivation
 Effect on their academic performances.
 Emotional affection of the students.
 Change in behavior
Figure 1: Paradigm of the study

The researchers will illustrate the conceptual framework that shows the

relationship of the input, process, and output of the topic. This conceptual framework

identified the relationship of specific variable of the study. The input consist, of the

experiences of the teachers among students who have Lack of Interest and Motivation as

the respondents of the study. The repondents described the the academic performance and

academic behavior.

The process consists an unstructured interview through identifying the problem of

a teacher that feel lack of interest and motivation which in the respondents of the study.

The data gathering and analyzing the relevant through answer the interview questions.

The output as a result of a study it will indicate the factor affecting the teacher

who have been encountered Lack of Interest and Motivation . The conclusion is able to

make to know and define the outcome of the study and give justifications.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

For better clarification and understanding of the terms related to the study, the

following are defined conceptually and operationally.

Academic behavior: Refers to the manner, deportment or moral conduct that an

individual encompasses ( Webster, 2006 ). In this study, this refers to the directly

observable attitudes manifested by the student-respondents during the conduct of

academic activities. For this study, adjectival rating was used interspersed with percentile

rating to described academic behavior, namely: extremely acceptable (4.50-5.00), highly

acceptable (3.50-4.49), acceptable (2.50-3.49), slightly unacceptable (1.50-2.49), and not

acceptable (1.00-1.49).

Age: Refers to the age of the students-respondents while were still Junior to

Senior High School.

Gender:Refers to the sexual category of the students-respondents whether male

or female.

GAS: General Academic Strand

Phenomenology: Study of the development of human consciousness and self

awareness as preface to a part of philosophy.

Parental presence: Refers to the presence or absence of one or both parents in a

student’s life. In this study this was classified as: living with both parents, living with

mother alone, living with father alone, and living without both parents.

SMNHS: San Miguel National High School

o know and define the outcome of the study and give justifications.
 CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

Research Design

This study utilized the qualitative type of study which according Netswidomy
(2004) is a naturalistic method of inquire of research which deal with the issue of human
complexity by exploring it directly. In this type the emphasis is on the complexity of
human their ability to shape and create their own experience and the idea that truth is a
composite reality. This study utilized the Phenomenological Research Design. This
design focuses on obtaining description of the subject or respondents live experiences
either in writing or through interviews. The goal of this study to analyze the meaning
behind there experience for each subject, rather than generalizing to a greater population.
(Donalek, 2004).According to Wholly understand the subject experience the researcher
must set aside their own feeling and expectation towards the study. Those feeling and
expectation may hinder the researcher from seeing the experience through the subjects
perspective.

Data Gathering Instrument

The researcher conducted survey and interview. The form was constructs by the
researcher under the supervision of their research teacher to accomplish their goal. Five
question and five statement were answered by the participants in order deeper analyze the
Location of the study

The study conducted at San Miguel National High School (SMNHS) that is located at
Scuala St, San Juan, San Miguel, Bulacan where the researchers are currently studying as
Senior High School Students. SMNHS, is the one of the biggest public secondary school
in the Province of Bulacan. SMNHS funded by the government. As a result, many
buildings partly completed built through the effort of the local government unit (LGU)
and the Department of Education (DepEd). For the implementation of the k-12 basic
education of the DepEd, SMNHS currently offering strand for the Senior High School
students Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strand, General
Academic Strand ( GAS), Accountancy Business Management ( ABM) strand,
Humanities and Social Science ( HUMMS) and of course the (TVL) strand or Technical-
Vocational and Livelihood Specialization in Agri -Fishery Arts (AFA) Information and
Communication Technology ( ICT) Home Economics (HE) and Sports Tracks.

study.
Respondents of the study

The respondents of the study will come from Junior to Senior High School teachers who
felt Lack of Interest and Motivation and the sample of the researchers study will consists
of 10-15 teachers.

Sampling Procedure

The researchers will use the sampling procedure purposive sampling since the researchers
will conduct an interview to the purposively selected teachers from Junior to Senior High
School Teachers and at the same time the researchers will use a snowball sampling
procedure, since the researchers will also ask to the participants who may be able to
participant to the researchers study, this procedure will also help the researchers to find
recruit participant that may otherwise hard to reach.

Data Analysis Scheme

 CHAPTER 4

Questions Answer Code Theme

1.What is the R(1)
often reason Base on my experience as a class Reason on
why they lose adviser student commonly lose their lack of
their motivation and interest in academic motivation
motivation because of they are destructed most of Distructed
and interest in the time. Some are busy with their
academic? mobile phone, playing games and
sometime using social networking site
some are destructed because of personal
problems, more specially involving their
family.
R(2)
Una, kakulangansapinansyal, may
mgagustong mag-aralperokapos, Financial
Pangalawasuportangmgamagulang, Problem
Pangatlo, may
asignaturahindialamngmgabata kung
paanomasasagutan.
R(3)
There are several reasons why students
lack of interest in academic. One of the Personal views
main factors is individuals, it concerns on education
mainly how students perceive of view
the importance of education in their
lives.
R(4)
Social media case sapag- Social media
aaralkasimasmadami to as game, yung and Games
focus sapag-
aaralnalelesskasiparasakanila 70% naka
focus sa social media.
R(5)
So sangayon they expose na expose Expose on
samga gadgets bukod don yungmga gadgets and
online games nainoofferngmga gadgets. mobile games
Other things may
mgabatanasabarkadanamannababalingy
ungatensiyon.
 R(6)
Application sa cellphone
kasilahatngestudyantengayon halos may Mobile apps
cellphone na at
dalanadinngbarkadananahihikayatkasak
ursong di monaman gusto kaya
doonpalangnawawalan kana ng interest
sapag-aaral.
R(7)
Most of the times the reason for lack of Family
interest of student are family problems problems and
which is to be addressed at home, financial
financial problem which the teacher has problems
minimal intervention and personal
reasons which we as teacher can help
them to deal with it.
R(8) Poverty
Unangdahiln aykahirapan. Di
nilaalamalam kung saankukuhangbaon
R(9)
Unanahuhumalingsa gadgets at Destructed
meronsilagginagawangaktibidad kaya
silanapupuyat.
R(10)
Sila ay laging nag sosocial media Destructed
Imbisnasya ay nag babasasila ay laging
nag facebookminsan nag youtube at nag
momobile games

2. How to R(1) Reasons to

help a Providing intrinsic motivation might help a
students when help studentsconques their lack of Give motivation students to
he or she has motivation and interest. Aside from have an
no interest on providing encouraging words for the interest and
his or her students, providing remediation motivation
academic activities that is aligned to his/her type
performance? of intelligence might also do a great
help.
 R(2)
Unakausapinpusosapuso kung
anoangpinagmulanngproblemapured Ask the
family problem o combitional problem. problems
Informs parents kung madalas absent o
pabagsakang grades. Sa junior high
school 4th grading period sa senior high
1st-2nd sem.
R(3)
One way of helping students/studie at Behavior
who lacks interest in studying is to modification
change the pattern of study habbits.
Behavior modification is highly
suggested.
R(4)
Kinakausapng personal Gives advice
naproblemanakinakaharap at give
advise.
Pinapatt=indiangkalagayanngedukasyon
.
R(5)
Kausapinungbatatanong kung Ask the
anoyungproblemakausapin din problems
yungmagulangtanongyungproblemanges
tudyantesabuhay kung bakitganunyung
attitude nyapagdatingsaeskuwelahan.
R(6)
Kinakausapyungmgamagulangbakakasis
abahay my problemakausapinng Don’t
personal at wag ipahiyaparahindi ma- embarrass
offend yungestudyante at
maskailangannilanggabayngmagulang.
R(7)
To encourage the students, I usually
give rewards and reinforce positive
behavior, more over I share inspiring Encourage
stories to the students specialy of it is on
my phylosopy class and inspire them on
the important that their research can
bring to the community.
R(8)
Pagtatanongsabata kung Know the
anoangkailanganalamin kung anong weakness and
assessment strength
angpwedesakanyaalaminyungkahinaan
at kalakasanniya
 R(9)
Kausapin o tanunginangbata kung may
problemasamismongasignaturapangalaw Asking the
atanunginagbata kung may problems
problemasabahaytanunginsila kung
anoangngabagaynanagigingdahilanngpr
oblemanila at iaadvicekosila. At
angibanaman ay financial
problemhindisapatangbinibigaynaperang
ngmagulangnila.
R(10)
Ipaliwanagngmabutiuangmaintindihann Fully explained
gbata kung
paanomakakatulogsabuhayniyaangeduk
asyon

3. How can R(1) Reasons to

you manage a I commonly handle such situation in a manage a
students have way that won’t embarrass student. I talk Ask the student that
lack of to the students personally and in private problems have lack
interest in to enable smooth flow of conversation of interest
your subject and to avoid intimidation I always try to and
or lesson? know the problem and try as much as motivation
possible to provide remediation
activities to cover the students
inadequacies for the subject matters.
R(2)
Kahitkontrolinmogagawinngbatapag-
aralan, sabihinsapamamagitanngpag- Gives
aaralngmabubuti ay may tagumpay. inspiration
Kwento man
ngmgainspirasyongpanoorin o example.
Basic Foundation ay makataposngpag-
aaralpwede din working student at the
same time management o prioritize.
R(3)
Let the students realize consequences of Gives additional
the lack of interest like giving them low task
remarks or giving additional task for not
performing or doing the needed task.
R(4)
Kinukuhaangatensyonparasumagot. Give reminders
Kakausapinang weakness ngmgabata.
Paulit-ulitna reminder sadapat at
hindidapatgawin.
 R(5)
Gumagawangparaanparamakuhayungate Give additional
nsyonngestudyantesapaggamitng activities
materials instruction materials
nasatinginmomakakacatchngatensyonnil
a. Bumuong activities na compatible
samga gusto ngestudyante.
R(6)
Bigyansilangibang activity Give different
halimbawayungbatangwalangpaki- activities
alamsa report o ayaw mag report mas
gusto
niyamaglectureyungmgaibinibigaysakan
yamaglectureparagumawasiyakahit
papa-ano.
R(7)
I monitor my student’s progress and
most of the time, I personally talk and Encouragement
have dialogue with them while
sometimes, I am writing feedback on
their output to encourage and motivate
the students extrinsically but I have
minimal effect if the problem is intrinsic
motivation.
R(8) Motivate
I motivate silapara mag
aralsilangmabuti.
R(9)
I advice at Give advice
ipatawagangmagulangupangmalan kung
anoangginagawanganaknilasaeskwelaha
n.
R(10) Motivate
Bigayansilangmotibasyonsapagaaral.
 Chapter 5

Findings

The result of our research of being lack of interest and motivation of many
student’s is because of financial problem, family problem, addiction on mobile games
and social media.

Conclusion

Having studied this course you should be able to discuss what is meant by the term
‘motivation’ and the situational and trait-centred views of motivation. You have examined
two of the theories of motivation to develop your understanding more deeply. The main
learning points for this course are: People will be motivated by a range of factors and these
are different for everyone. Personality and the environment both need to be considered when
motivating people. Need achievement theory explains why high achievers choose difficult or
challenging tasks and why low achievers choose easier tasks at which they are less likely to
fail. Attribution theory shows that what we attribute our success or failure to will have an
effect on our motivation.

Recommendations

The researchers recommends for teachers and to our school about of the problem for
students lack of interest and motivation is they bring extra activities, remedial class and
special tasks.