Teaching Practices of Public Elementary School Teachers Relative to Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST)

AUTHOR(S)

GEMMA G. TACULOG RUSSEL V. SANTOS

ABSTRACT

——— Teaching quality education is widely recognized as a factor in the learning process and affecting student learning outcome. Hence, the attributes of highly effective teaching practices must aim to produce an effective practice of learning and teaching. Under quantitative design, the researcher utilized the descriptive-survey-correlation design. “In quantitative research, researchers collect numerical data from individuals or group and usually subject these data to statistical analyses to determine whether there are relationships among them, while in the descriptive-correlational survey, the information gathered can be used for comparison and contrast designed to estimate the extent to which the variables are related to each other in the population of interest. The output of the study is a development program to enhance the teaching practices of the Public Elementary School Teachers relative to the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST); that reflecting back on their past actions and events, emotions, experience, possible actions and responses will help them gain in depth understanding what practices are needed to continue or are needed to improve or develop and even what characters to enhance and possess to cater quality education. Thus, it is indeed the commitment and dedication of the teachers that gives or makes purposeful, meaningful experiences to learners towards quality education. Keywords — Quality Education, Teaching Practices, Development Program, Commitment