Learning Youth Through Knowledge Advancement (LYKA): A Comprehensive Product for Developing Lesson Exemplars and Video Clips to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Quality education significantly impacts a student's future through knowledge, skills, and values. However, the Philippines is now experiencing a learning crisis and learning loss that hinders students to achieve their full potential as reflected in PISA 2022. As part of this, a new curriculum also known as MATATAG Curriculum was launched by DepEd in 2023 and implemented in S.Y. 2024-2025 which aims to address challenges in education.

In the MATATAG curriculum, specifically in grade 7, teachers are using lesson exemplars as instructional materials. Thus, one of the challenges expressed by the teachers in implementing the MATATAG curriculum was insufficient instructional materials for teachers and inappropriate learning materials for students. Hence, as instructional materials, LYKA (Learning Youth through Knowledge and Advancement) lesson exemplars and video clips were designed and developed to help teachers and students enhance teaching and learning process.

A quantitative research design was used specifically, the research and development design to determine the acceptability level of 30 grade 7 MAPEH teachers teaching in public schools in Koronadal City Division and 267 grade 7 students of Koronadal National Comprehensive High School to the developed LYKA lesson exemplars and video clips.

A survey questionnaire adopted from SKSU IMDC was employed to evaluate the said instructional materials. Mean was used to determine the acceptability level of teachers and students to the developed LYKA lesson examples and video clips in terms of content, organization, mechanics, and overall package. Moreover, t-test was employed to compute its significant difference between the acceptability level of teachers and students.

The results highlighted that the developed LYKA lesson exemplars and video clips achieved a very high extent result in all content, organization, mechanics, and overall package indicators both for grade 7 MAPEH teachers with an overall mean of 4.75 (SD= 0.45) and for grade 7 students with an overall mean of 4.58 (S=0.76). Overall, it met 91-100% of quality expectations. Therefore, the LYKA lesson exemplar and video clips were accepted by the teachers and students as useful tools to improve the quality basic education and foster 21^st century skills for PE and Health MATATAG Curriculum.

A t-test value of 5.93 and a p-value of 0.00 shows that the difference is statistically significant because the p-value (0.00) is less than the 0.05 alpha level of significance. Therefore, there was a significant difference between the acceptability level of grade 7 MAPEH teachers and grade students to the LYKA lesson exemplar and video clips in terms of content, organization, mechanics, and overall package. The results found that, there were meaningful variations or preference in how teachers and students perceived the quality, usefulness, or appeal of the LYKA lesson exemplar and video clips. On the other hand, the instructional materials can be useful for teachers and students to achieve and enhance teaching and learning.