Developmental Program for the Behavioral and Skills Competencies of Teachers through Learning Action Cell Sessions

Abstract

This study was conducted to develop a developmental program for teachers through SLAC Sessions for the S.Y. 2018 - 2019 based on the low level of practice in both behavioral and skills competencies. The respondents of the study were the regular or permanent teachers of Taclobo Elementary School. To gather data a questionnaire was used about core behavioral and skills competencies of teachers prepared by the researcher. The study found out that the teachers have still a number of competencies considered as in the low level of practice. Among the Behavioral Competencies, teachers as respondents need to be boosted with their ethics and professionalism specifically in their time management to generate free-error outputs with or without supervision. Teachers also should be developed to become innovative nowadays by solving existing problems in their classroom and finding concrete solutions to them. On the other hand, teachers should be given capacity building especially in developing their skills in both oral and written forms in accordance with DEPED Guidelines. With all of these in mind, a professional development plan was developed to have a basis and regular monitoring of the teachers’ development in both behavioral and skills competencies.