Problems Encountered by Teachers of San Juan, Batangas in Teaching Filipino Language Under K-12 Curriculum

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teaching is not an easy task for every teacher. It requires a lot of preparation to adopt the needs and wants of the students. Teaching also demands patience and a sense of hard work and responsibility to better execute the art of learning and teaching process. With this, the Department of Education continues to improve the level of education here in the Philippines. That's why K-12 Curriculum existed. Due to this new curriculum, different challenges and problems merged in the circulation of teaching. In this study, the researcher wants to identify and explores the world of Filipino teaching under the K-12 Curriculum. It focuses on the problems which the Filipino teachers in San Juan, Batangas encountered.

METHODS

A descriptive analysis approach was used in this study in analyzing and interpreting the data gathered. Aside from this, the researcher also used the semi-structured interview to have better knowledge with regards to the focus problem. Thirty (30) Filipino teachers from the nine secondary schools were selected as respondents in this study. They all have equal opportunity to answer the questionnaires prepared and distributed by the researcher. The questionnaire was divided into four parts: 1) profile of the respondents, 2) problems they encounter, 3) degree and level of problems and 4) significant relationship of profile to problems.

RESULTS

Many respondents who participated in this study are commonly experienced and encountered problems like 1) lack of modules or books to be used, 2) the merge of new words such as bekemon and jejemon, and 3) insufficient time of executing the lesson in Filipino. In the same instances, those are also the problems that earned the highest level of responses from the respondents. It was also found out that there was a significant relationship between problems and profile. It is because; most of the respondents are too young in the field of teaching and having 0-3 years' experience.

DISCUSSIONS

The results of this study demonstrate that an institution should have an equal distribution of modules or books to be used. Also, the teacher should be innovative enough with regards to the execution of the learning and teaching process. The localization of materials is very much important. Different training and seminars for the teachers will play a vital role in minimizing the problems they encountered in teaching Filipino.