Elementary Teachers&rsquo; Academic Preparation and Performance

Raymond  D. Espiritu,; Ryan  P. Eustaquio,

Elementary Teachers’ Academic Preparation and Performance

Abstract:

The objective is to study was the Elementary Teachers’Academic Prep-aration and Performance in order to determine the backdrop infor-mation for an intervention, multidimensional collaborative with all stakeholders of education community in Castillejos District. This uti-lized a descriptive-survey research design with the instrument devel-oped in PPST being modified and adopted for data collection. Two hun-dred forty-eight individuals were included in this study. Findings of the study reveal that Teachers Competence is at a high level in Lee and Lean skills, learning environment, learner diversity assessment and report-ing, community linkages & curriculum planning Community linkages & professional Engagements Personal Growth and Profession Develop-ment. The variation in teaching effectiveness based on professional sta-tus and monthly salary is statistically significant with respect to knowledge of content, pedagogy, diversity of learners; curriculum or-ganization and planning; evaluation and reporting as well as personal growth /professional development. No statistically significant differ-ence is noted in Teaching Performance based on Learning Environment when respondents are grouped according to gender, age, civil status, teaching position/rank and monthly salary. It is therefore suggested, in this study that:, teachers should participate in work shop and semi-nars, upgrading for higher degrees and certificate holders, digital liter-acy training for teachers and curriculum development. Involve the com-munity in the school room, field trips and activity Theories to help cre-ate a learning environment and parent classes on How to help their child learn at home or He parents needs to understand the curriculum. Additional research can be performed to confirm the findings of the current study.

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