Teaching Competencies of Public Senior High School Teachers : Basis for Staff Development Plan

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

As there was negativity for everyone that SHS will not pushed through, more teachers were hesitant to apply for teaching positions, yet the demand was very high. With the start of SHS last June 2016, there was a massive hiring of teachers. There was a tough screening for the teacher applicants based on the criteria memo from Department of Education. Some hired teachers were from HEI (higher education institution), JHS (junior high school), some from other companies, and other sectors. Some hired teachers had teaching experiences, others had industrial experience or non-teaching experience only, others had both.

METHODS

Descriptive method of research was used in this study. The research was conducted in all senior public high school in the 5th district of Cavite (CARSIGMA)and delimited to thirty-one school administrators and two-hundred senior high school teachers. Self-made survey questionnaires were utilized in the study. To analyze the data, the following statistical methods were employed: frequency count and percentage, mean, and chi test.

RESULTS

Generally, the school administrators and teachers had the same assessment on the lack of laboratory rooms, libraries, instructional materials such as books, projectors, TV etc.; paces lessons inappropriate to the needs and difficulties of learners; provides inappropriate intervention activities to learners at risk; overcrowding of students in the classroom as the hindering factors in the teaching competencies of public senior high school teachers.

DISCUSSIONS

The school principal needs to focus on the teachers' professional development by motivating teachers to pursue graduate studies and by designing a school-based comprehensive training and seminars. The school principal should motivate unlicensed teachers to take licensure examinations the soonest to enhance their professionalism and confidence. The senior high school teachers need to enrich their personal and professional skills of being effective teachers by equipping themselves with the contemporary and innovative approaches in teaching.