Qualities of Third Year High School Homeroom Advisers in Relation to Their Students' Promotion Rate in Public Secondary Schools in The District of Cabuyao: A Basis for an Enhancement Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teaching has always been thought of as one of the noblest profession and a teacher likewise, one of the noblest human beings.It is believed that an individual possessed with a noble heart, will be willing to assume a great responsibility to society, the heart and the soul of the youth, the love of hearty, goodness and truth. Teacher, then, is anticipated both personal and professional qualities projecting him as a role model. Hence, the teacher as a person cannot be detached from the teacher as professional. But before one becomes a professional, it is a must for a teacher to possess and develop characteristics attuned to the teaching profession. A good teacher is a humane person, looked up to and highly regarded by others. Likewise, role of homeroom advisers is very crucial

METHODS

The study employed descriptive-evaluative research method in the gathering, evaluating and analyzing the data. This method was employed to assess the relationship of the professional and personal qualities of third year national high school homeroom advisers, within the District of Cabuyao, in relation with their students' promotion as assessed by the teachers themselves and validated by their principals' assessment. The respondents of the study are five principals, one teacher leader, and forty-six homeroom advisers in the public secondary schools in the District of Cabuyao. The data were statistically treated with the use of Likert Scale, Simple Mean, and Spearman-Rank Correlation.

RESULTS

The findings of the study showed that both professional and personal qualities of the teachers' assessment for themselves were highly manifested that implied that all teacher respondents know and act professionally and possess the qualities a teacher should manifest and the truthfulness for their self-assessment was validated by their principals' evaluation of their qualities; personal and professional as also highly manifested. Results revealed that, there is no significant difference of the assessments between the two sets of respondents. Furthermore, qualities of teachers have a small positive correlation with students' promotion rate.

DISCUSSIONS

Results implied that teachers' qualities although small, may also affect students' performance and there are other factors that can affect such as class size, kind of subject, teachers' load and different personalities and qualities of subject teachers that can largely influence such performance.