Jovereen M. Angeles
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Genesis B. Naparan
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Gilbert A. Celesio
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Ramil E. Ecot
Higher College of Technology, Muscat Oman
Abstract
Classroom observation for teachers helps them upgrade their teaching performance. Despite the pandemic’s distance learning modality, public secondary schools conduct classroom observation through Learning Action Cell (LAC) sessions. This qualitative study explores Secondary Teachers’ Experiences in the conduct of Classroom Observation during LAC sessions. The researchers interviewed selected secondary teachers who had undergone classroom observation during the pandemic. Based on the results, the secondary school teachers’ experiences in the conduct of classroom observation in the new normal centered on teacher’s preparations include: preparing a diverse lesson plan, choosing the mastered topic, integrating health protocols, injecting technology advances, and identifying RPMS-PPST Indicators. Teachers described their experiences in delivering lessons as; developing classroom management, realizing improvement, and self-satisfying. The challenges encountered by the teachers during the preparation and lesson delivery were struggling with poor internet connection and technology integration and having pressure from the co-teachers. Therefore, there is a need to strategies the stability of internet connection, send teachers to seminars and workshop ICT pieces of training, create an orientation on RPMS-PPTS indicators to be observed during the classroom observation, reduce additional responsibilities, and encourage other researchers to make a further study on secondary teachers’ experiences in conducting classroom observation in the new normal education.
Keywords: Teachers’ experiences, Classroom Observation, Learning Action Cell, Preparation and lesson delivery
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