TEACHERS PERSPECTIVE IN NEW LEARNING MODALITIES VIS-A-VIS STUDENTS ABILITY: PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY

Abstract

As far as I observed, teachers are now being held to new levels of accountability for improving student outcomes. It sought the personal hands-on experiences of participants and its perspective towards attaining quality education in new normal modalities. The research design of this study utilized the phenomenological method to determine the teacher’s perspective on the learning modalities vis-a-vis students’ ability in The Rizal Memorial Colleges, Inc. The participants of this study were composed of 10 Senior High School teachers. The data obtained identified emergent themes clustered, namely: appropriateness of learning modalities, interactions in transmitting knowledge effectively, communication and connection, encouraging learners, helping learners, engaging different learning modalities, developing learning competency, achieving different teaching approaches, considering student’s needs, proposing new learning system, and organizing appropriates activities. Therefore, the results promote a new paradigm for delivering education and call for a new explicit structure of support for professionals in new normal learning system of education. With this, the implications to the teachers were to provide improvement, self-esteem, and self-empowerment, to do better for the best result for the academic performance of the students which serve as a reference for the school heads in giving school intervention activities. KEYWORDS: Teachers Perspective, New Learning modalities, and students’ ability