ABSTRACT
This descriptive-qualitative study explores the Senior High School Teachers’ Experiences on their Teaching Job and Performances as Bases for Policy Recommendation in the Schools District of Cabatuan I and II during the school year 2024-2025. The research method utilized in this study was a qualitative method using in-depth interviews and research design was phenomenology. It was found out that the senior high school teachers’ teaching experiences in their teaching job were teaching different subjects, develop skills and knowledge for work, perform the task well, and confident and enjoying. It was found out further that as to how senior high school satisfied in their teaching job were real challenging, adaptability to change, individual responsibility, and provision of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Senior high school teachers’ teaching performance was based on their 1st semester performance rating during the school year 2024-2025. The output of this research was a policy recommendation based on the results of the study.
Keywords: senior high school teachers, experiences, teaching job, performance, policy recommendation
INTRODUCTION
Despite the great intentions of the Department of Education, which is to strengthen Senior High School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Performance have been various challenges that the teachers have encountered in terms of their satisfaction based on the teaching load of teachers. Most of them shared their sentiments with the additional workload given by their school principal.
In addition, preparing numerous learning materials can be very time consuming. Not only of materials but also provision Information and Communication Technologies.
Another concern is the adaptability of teacher for change that needs a lot of patience and good time management skills.
Furthermore, getting the teachers’ interest on the subjects assigned to them but not their field of specialization, somewhat affect their performance and satisfaction towards the academic performance, too of the students. Catering the needs of the teachers in molding the students with different attention can be a challenging one for the school.
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