Teachers' Planning and Organizing of Instruction for Pupils with Learning Difficulties in the Selected Schools of Tabaco West District B, Division of City Schools of Tabaco, School Year 2016-2017

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Educational institution as the backbone of social development has the social responsibility to participate in building a community that is truly marked by reduction if not absence from hunger poverty and crime. By so doing, the institution needs to maintain its competitive status in terms of quality education to meet the demands of the times and share the fruits of its endeavors. From the institution's impact on society's resources it is able to provide allotment for social services sustained by the enterprising spirit to raise funds for the sustainability of its programs for the less fortunate.

METHODS

This study used the descriptive research focusing on "what." According to John W. Best, "what" of a descriptive study is "the presentation and interpretation of the status of something" Teachers' Planning and Organizing for Instruction for the Pupils with Learning Difficulties in the selected schools of Tabaco west District b, Division of City schools of Tabaco, School Year 2016-2017 Teachers have varied practices for instructional planning, teaching and classroom management in the K + 12 curriculum. The descriptive method provides the necessary background for the formulation of a more precise problem for subsequent more specific study for development.

RESULTS

Out of five indicators validated by the respondents two of these were always done by the students such that teachers have identified the problems found in their classrooms with a weighted mean of 4.59 and teachers have identified problems and are accompanied by solutions taken from related teaching materials with a weighted mean of 4.62 or interpreted as always, while the three indicators like teachers have discussed the choice of teaching material, method, and media based mean on students' characteristics and evaluations to be used.

DISCUSSIONS

The following were the suggested activities to enhance the teaching practices of the teachers in the k to 12 curriculum: proving professional, technical and logistical support to enhance teachers' professional improvement, encouraged staff participation in courses and/or seminars that affect the teaching/learning process. Identifying those steps that can foster a positive teacher-student rapport the weighted mean ranging from 4.48, 4.49 and 4.50. The overall weighted mean is 4.50 or always.