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INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION AMONG ELEMENTARY TEACHERS: BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Volume: 137  ,  Issue: 1 , November    Published Date: 22 November 2023
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 182  ,  Download: 115 , Pages: 179 - 210    
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP10013711120235663

Authors

# Author Name
1 DAISY V. DARACAN

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the instructional supervision among the public elementary teachers in order to propose management plan based on the findings of the study. The specific questions that were answered consisted of the assessment on the instructional supervision to teachers in terms of content knowledge and pedagogy, learning environment, diversity of learners, curriculum and planning, and assessment and reporting, the assessment on the professional learning communities for teachers professional growth as to professional links with colleagues, professional reflection to improve practice, and professional development goals, the significant relationship between the assessment on the instructional supervision to teachers and the professional learning communities for teachers professional growth, and the proposed management plan to enhance teachers professional growth. Moreover, the data were gathered from the school heads and teachers from the public elementary schools in the Fourth Congressional District of Laguna . These data were treated using mean computation, and Pearsons r. The results consisted of the instructional supervision to teachers by the school heads in terms of content knowledge and pedagogy, learning environment, diversity of learners, curriculum and planning, and assessment and reporting was to a moderate extent, the professional learning communities for teachers growth in terms of professional link with colleagues, professional reflection to improve practice, and professional development goals were to a moderate extent, the instructional supervision conducted by school heads in terms of learning environment and diversity of learners had a significant effect on the teachers in terms of their professional reflection to improve their practice, as well as on the professional links with colleagues, and the proposed management plan to enhance teachers professional growth capitalizes on the use of professional learning communities or PLC in order to enhance teachers professional growth in those aforementioned aspects. Recommendations included for the DepEd  to use the output of the study, which is the management plan for the enhancement of teachers professional growth through Professional Learning Communities (PLC), and for the future researchers to find gaps herein which they can use in their future research endeavors.

Keywords

  • Instructional supervision and professional learning communities
  • proposed management plan