Teacher Attitudes in Climate Change

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

According to the scientific experts in the field of climatology, climate change is caused by human activities that have resulted in an increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide. Scheneider (2009),

METHODS

This study used the descriptive method of research utilizing the questionnaire - checklist to assess the Social Science Teachers Attitude about Climate Change. The respondents of this study are the (109) teachers in Magdalena-Majayjay District in Division of Laguna school year 2015-2016

RESULTS

The overall means of 4.06,3.75, for belies 4.05 for commitment, 4.01 for do and 4.26 reveals that the respondents agree and strongly agree respectively on the teacher attitudes on climate change as to actions, beliefs, commitment, do and evaluation.Teachers' attitudes to climate change as to their action, beliefs, commitment, do and evaluation are significantly related to their climate change intervention program in terms of clean and green, segregation, reduce, reuse and recycle as evidenced by the r-values of 0.521, 0.439, 4.97,0.597, 0.744, 0.295, 0.328,0.393, 0.337, 0.399,0.323, 0.155,0.485,0.497, .0.616, 0.489, 0.435, 0.550, 0.623, 0.659, 0.381, 0.413, 0.360,0.393, 0.528,0.503,0.320,0.492,0.638, and 0.699 which rejected the null hypothesis at 5% level of significance respectively.

DISCUSSIONS

From the result according to the respondents, Teachers in Magdalena-Majayjay district were always positive in the effective implementation of their action, scientific beliefs, commitment by doing serious campaign on the detrimental effects of climate change based on their valid and reliable evaluation of the number of people victimized by natural disaster in the said district.

Teachers attitudes to climate change established significant relationship with their climate change intervention program in Magdalena-Majayjay District.