Dominant Personality Type and Level of Teaching Performance of Elementary Teachers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In every organization, there are different types of personality that are manifested by every individual. It is accepted worldwide that teaching performance and personality types play a crucial role in the educational aspect. In the Department of Education, distinct personality types of teachers have been observed. For a more local and closer perspective, public schools encountered various problems on factions and disagreements among teachers with nonidentical personality types and teaching performance. The researcher was prompted to conduct this inquiry to determine the Dominant Personality Type and Level of Teaching Performance of Elementary Teachers of Marbel 6 Elementary School, Koronadal City.

METHODS

This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using a standardized personality type checklist and a CB-PAST questionnaire to gather data from 21 elementary teacher respondents. The data obtained were analyzed and treated using the frequency count and weighted mean.

RESULTS

The study revealed that the Personality Types of Elementary Teachers were the following: eight teachers were sanguine; six are choleric; six teachers were phlegmatic and one had a melancholic personality type. Thus, the dominant personality type was sanguine. This denotes that most of the teachers were fundamentally spontaneous and pleasure-seeking; they were sociable and charismatic. Further, it showed that irrespective of personality types, all teachers perform proficiently as evidenced by means of 3.14, 3.29, 3.25 and 3.49 respectively. This result implied that the Level of Teaching Performance of Teachers of Marbel 6 Elementary School often exceeds expectations.

DISCUSSIONS

The result of the study was supported by Ekstrand (2012) who stated that Sanguine types can be drawn to teaching because they desire to influence, and being enthusiastic with people in expressing thoughts with excitement and being the center of attention. In addition, the Level of Teaching Performance of Elementary Teachers of Marbel 6 Elementary School irrespective of personality type was Proficient though those with Melancholic personality type got the highest performance meanwhile those with Sanguine personality type got the lowest. They displayed a high level of competency related skills exceeding requirements in many of the areas. This conveyed further that the personality types of teachers did not influence their level of teaching performance.