Teaching Competence of SSCAF Agriculture Instructors: An Assessment for Improvement
Keywords:
Teaching Competence, Agriculture Instructors, Assessment, ImprovementAbstract
The main concern of the study are the teaching competencies of SSCAF Agriculture Instructors: An Assessment for Improvement. This study employed a correlational-descriptive design. There were 12 agriculture instructors in SSCAF who were respondents to the investigation in this particular study. They were rated by the school administrators, the students (secondary and college) and the instructors themselves. The three groups perceived the instructor’s competence as very satisfactory, except on the ability to maintain student discipline of which the instructors rated themselves excellent, and in the ability to be regular and punctual to classroom work and activities, of which the student’s group rated themselves excellent, and in the ability to be regular and punctual to classroom work and activities, of which the student’s group rated them as excellent. Sheffe’s test showed a difference between perceptions of instructors and students’ group at a computed f value of 8.7456 against the critical f value of 6.80. It further showed a difference in perception between that of the administrators and instructors’ groups, at a computed f of 4.8357 against the critical f value of 6.80. The human relations behavior of the subjects, though generally perceived as “very satisfactory”, has a serious setback with the identified weaknesses by both the administrators’ group and the students’ group, since it relates to a necessary rapport between the teachers and the clientele (students and community folks). The three weaknesses speak of the wrong attitude and ability to rightly deal with others, which are very necessary in a teaching-learning situation.
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