Skills and Competence Self-assessment and Pedagogical Training Needs: Basis for Higher Education Professional Retooling Plan

Abstract

Professional development is an institution’s endeavor to ensure the quality delivery of its academic function.  Constant retooling of the faculty members will improve their profile and student performance.  This focused on the relevance of faculty training and their teaching skills and competencies and the pedagogical and technological needs of respondents.  The descriptive-correlational research design is used as it described the variables considered in the study.  It further established a significant relationship between the dependent and independent variables.  There were 158 teacher respondents. Frequency counts and percentages, weight mean and bivariate analysis was used to treat the data gathered.  Respondents come from the different colleges of the two campuses of Abra State Institute of Sciences and Technology.  More than half of them are completing their master’s degrees, and a great number of them are specialized in the English or Filipino language, with instructor positions, and 5 years and below in the teaching profession.  Moreover, the respondents strongly agreed that teaching skills and competence are very important. They also extremely agreed that the varied training spearheaded by the Office of the Curriculum and Instructional Materials Development was essential.  A significant relationship between the respondents’ educational attainment and years in the teaching service and their agreement on the relevance of teaching skills and competencies existed.  It also showed a significant relationship between their campus and their training needs along with instruction and research functions.  The deep analysis of the processed data has led the researchers to conceptualize a comprehensive upskilling and retooling of the teachers.