Home⇛ISTRADOR: Research Journal on Education, Technology and Innovation⇛vol. 3 no. 2 (2025)

School Leaders And Teachers’ Awareness And Practices And Challenges Encountered On Gender And Development Implementation Program: Towards A Proposed Action Plan

Kathlene Joy Vicente

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study determined the school leaders’ mentoring and instructional practices of teachers in Rodriguez Heights Elementary School during the school year 2024-2025 which served as the basis for a proposed sustainability program. The study used descriptive correlational research design utilizing an adapted questionnaire as the main tool for data collection. The sources of data were the 54 teachers and 15 school leaders from the said school, Montalban SubOffice, Division of Rizal. The statistical tools used to treat the data were weighted mean, t-test, and Pearson-r correlation. The result of this study served as the basis for proposing a possible sustainability program designed to address the identified gaps and enhance teachers’ classroom practices and performance. The study revealed that the perceptions of the teachers and the school leaders themselves on the level of school leaders’ key skills for the effective mentoring of teachers is Very Often as revealed by the computed grand weighted mean values of 3.66 and 3.71 respectively. Same with the perceptions of the teachers and school leaders on the teachers’ level of instructional practices as Very Often since the computed grand weighted mean values are 3.77 and 3.63 respectively. Moreover, there is a significant difference in the level of instructional practices of teachers as perceived by themselves and by the school leaders in terms of the given areas as evidenced by the computed t-value of 3.676 which lies outside the critical t-value. A significant relationship between the level of school leaders’ mentoring skills and teachers’ level of instructional practices based on their key skills in the aforementioned areas was evident; therefore, the statistical decision was to reject the null hypothesis. Thus, the study's findings led to the development of the proposed sustainability program entitled, “Enhancing School Leaders' Mentoring Skills to Improve Teachers' Instructional Practices.”



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