Attributes of the Tertiary Teachers’ Teaching Performance: Basis for a Reorientation Program

Abstract

This study is undertaken to find out the attributes of the tertiary school administrators, department chairmen and teachers in Misamis Occidental during the school year 2013 – 2014 that are significantly related to teachers’ performance. The findings serve as basis for a reorientation program for tertiary administrators and teachers.

Fifteen tertiary schools’ administrators, thirty department chairmen, 140 regular full-time tertiary school teachers, and 1,328 students of all ten tertiary schools in Misamis Occidental.

Descriptive-correlational method. was used .The chief instruments employed in the gathering of data included the Leadership Behavior questionnaire, questionnaires on administrators’ skills, instructional supervision skills, organizational commitment, personality traits inventory, and students’ evaluation of the faculty. Informal interviews were conducted for additional information and to substantiate some data from the questionnaire.

The data were treated using the weighted mean, Pearson r, and t-test to determine the correlation and significant relationship between the administrators and teachers’ attributes and teachers’ performance.

Keywords: Teaching performance, Leadership, School administrators, Tertiary teachers