Research
Self-Appraisal Readiness Evaluation of BSED and BEED Pre-Service Teachers and Instructional Competencies
The apex of all the experiential Learning Courses is the Practice Teaching. It is the total immersion of the prospective teacher in the real life of becoming a teacher. During practice teaching, the pre-service teacher experiences the rudiments of teaching in the cyclical process of planning, actual teaching and evaluating learning. Pre-service education of teacher means, education of teachers before they enter into service as teacher. During this period of teacher education programmes, teaching practice goes side by side, while they are getting knowledge about theory papers. The making of a teacher is a developmental process. The teaching profession has been struggling to keep pace with the changes in society and the accompanying challenges of the technological world. According to Kothari commission, a teacher who unlike an ordinary worker, acts as a master, crafts man, an artist, a strategist and a powerful motivator. The environs of a classroom are enlivened by the inspiring, dynamic, enthusiastic, encouraging, skillful and dedicated teacher.
Teaching Strategies of Instructors and Professors of Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College Ajuy Campus
This descriptive study was conducted to determine the strategies employed by the instructors and professors of NIPSC Ajuy Campus academic year 2015-16. The respondent of the Study were the 39 instructors and professors of NIPSC Ajuy Campus. They were grouped as a Whole and Classified as length of service, educational qualification and academic rank. The instrument used in this study was taken from the book of Baes and Irapta (2012) and Principles and Methods of Teaching by Salandanan, et al. (2013). Descriptive statistical tools used were the frequency count, percentage, and mean rank. The findings revealed that the top five Strategies employed by instructors and professors of NIPSC Ajuy were: interaction and discussion, rank 1.5; exercise, rank 3; direct instruction and lecture, rank 4.5; classroom demonstration and brainstorming, rank number 6. When classified according to sex, the top five teaching strategies employed by male respondents respectively were: direct instruction, discussion, authority teaching, classroom demonstration, lecture and brainstorming.
