Gender Responsiveness in the Implementation of Senior High School Technical-Vocational Livelihood Track in Calabarzon

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The study sought to assess the gender responsiveness in implementing Senior High School Technical-Vocational Livelihood Track in CALABARZON.

METHODS

Checklist questionnaire and semi-structured interview were employed to gather the data. 279 respondents were purposively selected from 20 schools in the said region. Weighted mean, Pearson r, and ANOVA were used to statistically analyze the data. The respondents of this research were279 senior high school teachers from CALABARZON.

RESULTS

It was revealed that the SHS-TVL track has faculty who are knowledgeable of their teaching tasks and assignment, and in can manage the class but need to be more informed of the policies in relation to their rank, tenure, remuneration, fringe benefits, and faculty development. It was recommended that the school administrators may conduct seminars to inform Senior High School. School administrators may send faculty to gender and development trainings, workshops and seminars to be more oriented to gender responsive pedagogy.

DISCUSSIONS

It addresses the demands for gender sensitivity as reflected in the faculty competency, support to students, planning instruction and its delivery, classroom arrangement and interactional patterns but areas like library, facilities requirements, teaching and learning materials need to be further improved to attain gender responsiveness. The gender-based training plan may be adopted by different divisions in Region IV-ACALABARZON.