Delving into the physical education teachers’ teaching performance as a factor of students’ academic achievement

Abstract

The success of teaching is largely dependent on teachers’ performance. It defines and shapes the success of a school and determines the quality of services and outputs of the school can provide and produce. This is the reason that school principals promote and maintain high level of teaching performance among their teachers (Garton, et al., 2000). In the teaching – learning process, the teacher and student are the important figures. The interactions of these individuals in the classroom complete the education process in a given time. In other words, the link is evident between the teacher and the student – the amount of efforts a teacher exerts will tantamount to the student learning. This study focused on the performance in the National Achievement Test (NAT) of selected Physical Education teachers of the secondary schools in the Division of Zamboanga City where their teaching performance was gauged using the survey questionnaires while the academic performance of the 372 students was analyzed through the result of their National Achievement Test.