ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN EDUKASYONG PANTAHANAN AT PANGKABUHAYAN: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) PROFICIENCY AND COMPETENCIES

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the level of elementary school teachers? ICT proficiency and its effects on learners? competencies in Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan in the District of Santa Cruz, Laguna. Specifically the study attempted to answer the following: what is the teachers? ICT proficiency level with regards to attitudes, knowledge, skills, and utilization. It also aimed to answer the learners? ICT competencies in EPP relative to using powerpoint presentation, spreadsheets, and word document, and if there is a significant relationship between the elementary school teachers? ICT proficiency and the learners? competencies in EPP.Simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of the respondents. Data were gathered from forty (40) elementary educators from the Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Laguna, District of Santa Cruz. A survey questionnaire with a modified Likert scale was adopted and used to gather data. The gathered data was statistically computed and analyzed using the frequency, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson r formulas in describing the direction of the relationship between the teachers? ICT proficiency and learners? ICT skills and competencies.Findings of the study revealed that the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan Teachers? ICT proficiency based on high knowledge, attitudes, skills, and utilization range from high to very high; the learners? ICT skills and competencies in a word documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations were moderately high; and there is no significant relationshipbetween the teachers? ICT proficiency and learners? ICT skills and competencies. It is concluded that there is no significant relationship between the teachers? ICT skills and competencies. Therefore the hypotheses were accepted. It is recommended that the proper supervision on the implementation of digitalization of the Philippines? educational system to cope with the demands of the 21st century and along with the teachers? training, the government may also strive to update the ICT infrastructure and allow the learners to have physical manipulation of the gadgets to achieve real-time experience.