Title: MANIPULATIVE GAMES USED TO ENHANCE THE LEARNING COMPETENCIES OF KINDERGARTEN LEARNERS IN DONSOL EAST I, SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SORSOGON
Author:
GERALDINE P. CADAG
Abstract:
Playing games is considered critical to children’s learning because it is their primary means of expressing ideas, feelings, and beliefs. This study determined the profile of the kindergarten pupils and teachers, identified the kindergarten games used by the kindergarten teachers in teaching to achieve the expected competencies, listed down the problems met by the teachers in using games, and proposed kindergarten self-made games to improve the pupils’ competencies further.
This study was pursued using the descriptive survey design through quantitative-qualitative technique. The study revealed that the majority of the kindergarten pupils are in the prescribed age, male, with few siblings, and in the first and second order of birth, with mothers who are younger than their fathers, with a housewife’s mother and father engaged in farming. Kindergarten teachers are in their middle adulthood, female, married, in a Teacher III position classification, with units in the master’s degree, a few years in service, and have attended seminars in kindergarten. The teachers used manipulative, mastery, mental, and numeracy games in teaching to achieve the competencies expected from the pupils. There are several problems met by the teachers in using games. The researcher prepared self-made kindergarten games to further improve the pupils’ mastery of the skills developed along the four categories of games.
Keywords: Playing Games, Kindergarten Learners, Manipulative Games, Numeracy Games, Mastery Games, Mental Games.
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