THE EXTENT IN ACTUALIZING THE 21ST CENTURY CHANGING ROLES OF TEACHERS IN THE DIVISION OF CABADBARAN CITY

Abstract

This study sought to find out the extent in actualizing the 21^st century changing roles of teachers in the Division of Cabadbaran City, school year 2019 - 2020.

The profile of the respondents as well as the 21^st century changing roles of teachers as a technology expert, facilitator, researcher, ethicist and counselor were gathered. Further, the significant difference between school heads’ and teachers’ responses was tested. The significant association between respondents’ profile and the 21^st century changing roles of the teachers were also verified.

The researcher used both descriptive and comparative research design in conducting the study. A researcher-made questionnaire was utilized during the study. The researcher used Raosoft software to determine the sample size of the respondents. Out of the 366 public elementary school teachers of Cabadbaran City Division, 188 were taken as the sample size, who were also determined through proportionate sampling. Purposive sampling was used to all the 27 school heads in order to assess the reliability of the teachers’ responses for themselves. After considering the problems, frequency, percentage, weighted mean, Mann-Whitney U-test, Chi-square test, One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were used to treat the data gathered.

The results revealed that most of the teacher-respondents in Cabadbaran City were young and were female. Majority of the teachers have less experience in teaching. Most of the teacher-respondents were trained on teaching students about self-discipline and appropriate behaviors. This study also revealed that elementary teachers in the Division of Cabadbaran City do sometimes actualize the changing roles in the 21^st century as facilitators and as counselors but seldom actualized being technology experts and researchers. Teachers’ and school heads’ responses on the changing roles of teachers in the 21^st century were not significantly different. This implied that the school heads were firm in giving assessment on teachers’ performance. Factors such as age and years in service had significant association on the roles of teachers in the 21^st century as technology experts. Further, in-service trainings attended had significant association with the actualization of the changing roles of teachers in the 21^st century.

With the findings, it was therefore concluded that the public elementary school teachers of the Division of Cabadbaran City were not technology experts and do not have enough knowledge in conducting action research. Since in-service trainings have significant association with the actualization of the changing roles of teachers, designing in-service trainings needed by teachers was therefore recommended.