Teacher Quality in the Light of the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers

The paper aimed to assess the respondents’ level of teaching standardscompetence using the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers(PPST) and their performance using the school’s Teacher PerformanceEvaluation, respectively. Likewise, it purported to determine thesignificant difference in the level of teaching standards competenceand performance of teachers when teachers were grouped according tosex, marital status, educational attainment, and status of employment.The respondents were the whole population of the basic educationdepartment of a diocesan school in Antique composed of 33 teachers.Using a descriptive-comparative and correlational research design, thestandardized questionnaires on teaching standards competence usingPPST and teaching performance using teacher performance evaluationof the diocesan school were utilized to gather the data. Descriptive andinferential analyses using the mean, Mann Whitney U and IndependentSamples t-test, and the Pearson Product Moment of Correlation wereutilized to analyze the data. The findings revealed that the level of teachingstandards competence and performance of basic education teachersas assessed by the principals and teachers themselves were proficientand satisfactory, respectively. Moreover, the findings further showedno significant difference in both the teaching standards competenceand performance when the teachers were grouped according to sex,educational attainment, marital status, and status of employment.However, the overall findings revealed that there is a significantrelationship between the level of teaching standards competence andperformance.