Ncbts - Based Teaching Competence and Teaching Assignment of Elementary School Teachers, District of Atimonan, Division of Quezon: Its Implication to Review of Existing Policies on Teachers Assignment

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Updating the teachers' competence is tantamount to upgrading the system of education. In that way, the agency caters to the needs of the teachers in the front line; at the same time that teachers meet the demands of the learners. The performance of the learners is reflective of what the school is able to provide and how the teachers have performed their functions. In dispensing their function, the teachers aim for effective performance. Having the goal to perform effectively and efficiently, teachers have to follow the standards designed to evaluate their competencies.

METHODS

It specifically determined teacher respondent's profile, their competence using NCBTS framework with the seven domains namely Social Regards for Learning, Learning Environment, Diversity of Learners, Curriculum, Planning, Assessing and Reporting, Community Linkages, and Personal Growth and Development. The research investigation covered only one respondent. The descriptive survey method was employed in this study. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) used for data analysis and interpretation.

RESULTS

Based from this study, teachers themselves are the most important agents in the improvements of their teaching, their values, and personal aspiration, coupled with knowledge and skills learned from their studies, seminars/training that are aligned in the NCBTS made them competent in their teaching-learning process. The stereotype idea that teachers assigned in central school are more competent than teachers assigned in non-central is not a basis or a policy of school heads in giving assignments. Teachers teaching in non-central may transfer in central school, if they have the intention to transfer. Teachers teaching in primary grades can be assigned in the intermediate grades, for these teachers should have the same teaching competencies.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate that in the call of the teaching profession, there must be a continuous assessment of teachers' competencies so that the quality of education will always be the point of reference of Dep Ed. Talking about competencies is a matter of knowing how teachers fulfill their duties in the place of teaching assignments given to them by their supervisors. Since NCBTS is a guiding post of all teachers in their teaching-learning process, all teachers have to perform their duties no matter where their teaching assignments are, for they are guided by this framework.