Scantiness of Instructional Materials in Senior High School: Basis for a Proposed Digital Instructional Archive

Teaching materials is a generic term used to describe the resources teachers utilize to deliver instruction with ease and greater effectiveness. Regardless of their variation, these materials support learning content, allow students to engage in the concepts application and provide an opportunity for evaluation. With the coming of R.A. 10533, the Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum or popularly known as K-12 Curriculum the needs for the instructional materials doubled as the learners stay in the public schools for two (2) additional years. On its initial years, Senior High Schools greatly experienced scantiness of instructional materials in teaching different subjects. Thus, this paper aimed to aid the scantiness of instructional materials in Bauan Technical High School. With this, problems encountered regarding the supply, usability and accessibility of instructional materials by so called facilitators of learning were explicitly manifested through questionnaire guided interviews and Focus Group Discussion. By Content Analysis, momentous inputs were coded, interpreted and validated. Significantly, the study found out that the most outstanding experience of the respondents in the teaching learning process was theaccumulation of instructional material tailored fit to the needs of the learners and would suffice the yields of the Department of Education curriculum guides. More than time consuming, instructional materials’ supply, usability and accessibility were constraints for the facilitators. In the midst of this, teachers maximized the use of online sources which eased this scantiness. This led to the proposed offline digital instructional archive, Libro ni Bonsai, a Google Play Store free mobile application, oasis of tailor fit curriculum guide based instructional materials that would aid present dilemma.

Keywords – digital instructional archive, instructional materials, offline mobile application, scantiness, Senior High School, teaching – learning process