Accounting Teacher’s Competencies on Flexible Teaching – Learning Methods

Accounting education plays an important role in providing quality graduates that will be the soon to be Certified Public Accountants (CPA). Technological advancement reshapes the delivery of education. This study aimed to assess the accounting teacher competencies on Flexible teaching and learning methods employed in Batangas. It used descriptive method of research to describe the accounting teacher competencies and its impact on Flexible teaching and learning methods. 265 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy in the province of Batangas participated this study. Survey questionnaire was used to gather data which was adapted and modified to suit the current study. The instrument was validated by the expert in the field and subjected to reliability test with a Cronbach Alpha of 0.958. All data gathered were tallied, encoded, and interpreted using descriptive statistics. This includes frequency distribution, weighted mean. All data was treated using PASW version 23 to further analyze the result using 0.05 alpha level. The findings showed that accounting teacher’s competency were often practiced by the teachers as experienced by the respondents. They generally agreed on the Flexible teaching and learning methods employed by accounting teachers. Accounting teacher competencies has a great impact in online instruction and delivery of lessons. Also, technical skills affect the course content, materials, and resources, while instructional skills, human skills and technical skills has an impact on assessment and feedback. A proposed plan of action was prepared to improve accounting teacher competencies.

Keywords: Accounting Teacher, Competency, Teaching, Learning, Methods