Time Management and Job Performance Level of Public Elementary School Teachers in Area IV, Division of Batangas

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teachers face a great deal of challenges in their everyday lives brought by tons of paper works to accomplish, numerous or varied students to educate and discipline, well-managed classrooms to maintain, files and records to organize, and assessment and evaluation tools to prepare. They have to perform their duties and responsibilities to the best of their abilities; thus, their profession requires effective time management skills. Teachers believe that the way time is managed influences their performance in the different aspects of their work and that an effective system of managing their time well works out successfully in discharging varied functions.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was employed with the use of questionnaire as the main instrument in gathering data. The gathered data from the questionnaire were tallied, analyzed, and interpreted. The weighted mean, t-test, and correlated coefficient were the statistical measures used in the analysis of data. The study involved seventy-five teachers and eight principals from the eight public elementary central schools. The number of teachers who served as the study's respondents was computed using Slovin's formula at ten percent margin of error. The teacher respondents were selected through random sampling. No sampling was done for the principal respondents.

RESULTS

The respondents of this study revealed that teachers possess a high level of time management. For the principal, the job performance of teachers is manifested at a very high level. For the teachers, their job performance is manifested at a high level. The principals and teachers assessments on time management do not differ significantly in terms of classroom management and actual teaching; they differ significantly in terms of files and records management and they differ highly significantly in terms of assessment and evaluation. There is a significant relationship between the level of time management and the level of job performance of teachers on the different variables except on the teachers' performance of related activities.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate the need for teachers to devise a schedule of their daily activities so that no important activity would be left behind and to conduct seminars and workshops on time management in schools. Principals were encouraged to constantly monitor the efficiency and effectiveness being demonstrated by the teachers in their job. Time management has a great impact on job performance of teachers.