Field Study Courses: Its Effect to the Practice Teaching Performance of the Bachelor of Elementary Education Student Teachers

Abstract

This research is intended to reveal the effect of Field Study Courses to the Practice Teaching Performance of the Bachelor of Elementary Education Student Teachers. The researcher used the descriptive correlational method. Descriptive method was used to gather and analyze data regarding the teaching performance pointed out by the student teachers. Mean, Percentage and frequency counting. Pearson Product Moment of Correlation was also used to find out the relationship between field study courses to the practice teaching performance of the student teachers. After the study was conducted, it was exposed that the level of the BEED student teachers’ performance in terms of the field study courses is VERY GOOD. The level of the BEED student teachers in their academic teaching performance OUTSTANDING. The level of the BEED student teachers’ scholastic rating along practice teaching is SUPERIOR. There is an inverse significant relationship between their field study courses performance and their practice teaching performance while their field study courses performance is not significant with their academic teaching performance. It is recommended therefore that Field Study teachers must provide more practice and more time on the different activities of teaching and well-facilitated also by the teacher to have a sounding teaching and learning process. Their communication skills should be improved. They should be helped in articulating their ideas and thinking process. Professional subjects anchored in the different field study courses must be empowered to have a better performance in their practice teaching. More time should be allotted in their practice teaching especially in the In-Campus training so that they will be ready when exposed to public or other schools. Another study is suggested, correlating their teaching performance and their performance in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)