Joed B. Revereza (Author)
Abstract
This study determined the technical and supervisory skills of department heads in the secondary schools of Bacacay Districts school year 2024-2025. Specifically, it answered the following questions: 1. What are the technical skills of the department heads in selected learning areas?; 2. What is the level of the technical skills of the department heads along English, Mathematics, Science and Technology Livelihood Education (TLE); 3. What are the supervisory skills of the department heads in Bacacay Districts?; 4. What is the level of supervisory skills of the department heads along leadership skill, communication skill, mentoring skill, decision-making skill, and planning and organizing skill?; 5. What are effects of the technical skills to the supervisory skills of the department heads? and 6. What skills enhancement plan may be prepared to improve the performance of the department heads? The research method used is descriptive-survey and a researcher-made questionnaire validated by internal and external panel was employed as the research tool. The respondents of the study were 127 secondary teachers of the seven (7) national high schools in Bacacay Districts teaching the four (4) learning areas covered in this study. Out of the 127 respondents, there were thirty (30) teachers handling English; twenty-nine (29) handling Mathematics; forty-one (41) teaching Science and twenty-seven (27) handling Technology Livelihood Education. The descriptive statistics utilized are frequency counts, percentage and weighted mean. The researcher found out that the technical skill identified with the highest number of frequencies in English is reviewing language curriculum content and implements the necessary adjustments based on local need and context with 29 out of 30 or 96.67 %. In Mathematics, it is motivating teachers to professional development especially on technology and modern strategies in the teaching and learning of Mathematics with 27 out of 29 or 93.10 %. There were thirty-nine (39) Science teachers out of 41 or 95.12 that responded that the technical skill in Science of the department heads in Bacacay District is implementing effective management and utilization of resources in Science classes by teachers and students. The technical skill in Technology Livelihood Education with the highest total number of frequencies of twenty-seven (27) out of 27 or 100 % is obtained promoting the use of variety of teaching methods and learning resources suited to the needs of the students. The learning areas with the highest average weighted mean on the level of technical skills of 4.46 is in English. This is followed by 4.42 in Science; then Technology Livelihood Education and 4.37 and lastly, in Mathematics with 4.34. All these results have an adjectival description of very high. The level of the technical skills of the department heads in selected learning areas has an over-all average of 4.40 with an adjectival description of very high. There were two (2) highest frequencies in supervisory skills in the English Department: communication skills with frequencies of 30 or 100%, and mentoring skills with frequencies of 30 or 100%. In Mathematics Department, it showed that there are also two (2) highest frequencies in supervisory skills: these are leadership skills with frequencies of 29 or 100% and planning and organizing skills with frequencies of 29 or 100%. In Science Department, the highest frequencies in supervisory skills are planning and organizing skills with frequencies of 41 or 100%. In Technology Livelihood Education, the supervisory skill with the highest frequencies of 27 is leadership skill. The results revealed that highest weighted mean obtained in the supervisory skills of department heads in Bacacay Districts of 4.49 is leadership with an adjectival description of very high. The learning area with the highest weighted mean of 4.37 is in English with an adjectival description of very high. The rest of the learning areas have an adjectival description of high. These learning areas are: Mathematics with 4.11; Technology Livelihood Education with 4.10 and Science with the lowest weighted mean of 4.05. The effect of the technical skills in selected learning areas such as English, Mathematics, Science and Technology Livelihood Education has an over-all average of 4.16 with an adjectival description of high. The researcher prepared a skills enhancement plan to improve the technical and supervisory skills of the department heads. The identified skills are mentoring, decision-making as well as planning and organizing. These were the supervisory skills that have been identified to be affected highly by the technical skills in selected learning areas.
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Keywords: technical skills of school heads, supervisory skills of school heads, motivation, communication, mentoring, decision-making