A Survey of the problems of new elementary school teachers in public and private schools of Baguio and Benguet for the school year 1966-1967

Abstract

It was the aim of this study to survey and analyze the problems met by new elementary school teachers in the public and private schools of the city of Baguio and Benguet in the school year 1966- 1967. Specifically, it attempted to answer the following questions. 1. What problems did the new elementary teachers meet in the selection, preparation, and organization of the subject matter in the grades they teach? 2. What problems did they meet in the presentation of the lessons and the direction of pupil learning. 3. What problems did they meet in the management of classroom routine? 4. What problems did they meet in connection with pupil’s personal characteristics and in securing their cooperation and interest? 5. What problems did they meet in the utilization of visual aids, devices, and community resources? 6. What problems did they meet in connection with the administration and teaching staff relationship. 7. What problems did they meet with the parents or the pupils? 8. What were their problems in connection with their co-curricular and extra-curricular activities? 9. What were the problems they met in relation to the evaluation of themselves and their work as teachers? 10. Were there other problems or difficulties? This study should be important to all who are concerned in the making of teaching learning proves successful especially to the school administrators of the elementary schools, to administrators and faculties of teacher-training institutions, to administrators and faculties f teacher-training institutions, to the new teachers themselves from the start of the career. For the new teacher, it seems so much as i8t means the respect of his peers, self-esteem, security of his job, and most of all the satisfaction of a job well done. How pathetic it would be for a new teacher if he would feel that he shoes the wrong profession. The investigator also thinks that with the knowledge of these problems of the new elementary teachers, school administrators, supervisors, principals, and old members of the teaching staff would be more understanding and more sympathetic with the new teachers and set them to new thinking of ways to alleviate the problems confronting the same new teachers in the profession. This knowledge of the problems will help school administrators and supervisors in their annual plan of activities for the elementary schools. Likewise, a knowledge of the problems will help administrators and faculties of teacher training institutions to see definite professional education which need to be improved, revised or supplemented. This study will be helpful to beginning teachers and to school administrators and teacher colleges. On the basis of the findings of this investigation school administrators could evolve plans for in-service education of teachers or workshops for teachers so that proper solutions to the problems actually met by teachers might be formulated. A knowledge of these problems will help the old teaching staff to understand the plight of the new teachers and feel involved int the need to share responsibilities for the success of the entries program. The parents and the public general, with the knowledge of these problems, will be able to see a teachers fresh from college, possessed of the real enthusiasm for the work, but like any other professional is bound to commit errors and mistakes in his profession in his first year of teaching. For the new elementary teacher, a knowledge of these problems will help him define his problems more fully, study them, and find solutions to solve them. The investigator is strongly convinced that the knowledge she gained in this study will greatly help her and the critic teachers, especially in her supervisory program in the laboratory schools of Baguio Tech, in the guiding and helping of students teachers who are and will be under her charge as the principal of the said laboratory school.