CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF UNIT-EARNER TEACHERS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

Education

Teachers are the beating heart of education. Their commitment to transforming the world and making a difference in the lives of children makes education more fruitful and successful. Hence, without them, facilitating the learning experience of the learners is impossible. They are the reason why education is possible for all children even in far-flung areas. However, in the Philippines, teachers can be categorized into two categories, especially in the basic education department. We have teachers who are education graduates and the one is non-education graduates, we call them unit-earner teachers. Even though both of them are teachers, they differ in terms of educational background because education graduates are trained to teach while unit-earner teachers only took 18 units in education for them to be allowed to take the teacher’s board examination and then sooner or later if they will pass will become professional teachers. Aside from that, teachers who are education graduates experienced practicum while unit-earners did not. In short, teachers who are education graduates had already knowledge and background and they even know what to do in the classroom. While, on the other hand, unit-earner teachers had no prior experience of what to do when teaching. For this reason, the researcher decides to explore and describe the perspectives and experiences of unit-earner teachers to understand their struggles and coping mechanisms thus creating a professional development program for them and the new unit-earner teachers to be assigned in the field of teaching.

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