Teaching Effectiveness and Coping Occupational Stress as Basis for Intervention Program

Teachers spent long hours in supervision, evaluation, preparing lessons and testing materials inside the school and even at home purposely for the profession’s effectiveness. With this fact, the amount of stress is higher in which resulted to occupational stress and unfortunately could affect their work. This study is intended to determine the relationship between teaching effectiveness and coping occupational stress of teachers with the aim of creating an intervention program within the results This study will make use of universal purposive sampling techniques in selecting its respondents wherein only the general education and professional subject teachers were included as respondents and – randomly selected students from the University for a total 819. The method used correlation-descriptive survey applying modified occupational roles questionnaire and authenticated teaching effectiveness using weighted mean percentage and computed r. The result on the relationship of the respondents’ profile has no direct influence on teaching effectiveness, while the relationship of occupational stress and teaching effectiveness, found a slight negative relationship; this implies an increase on teachers’ occupational stress is associated with a decrease on teaching effectiveness. Otherwise, when teachers have less amount of occupational stress, their performance improves. It can be inferred from the result that the respondents’ performance was not affected by the occupational stress but evidently an effectiveness by dedication and commitment of teachers to their profession in the 21st century teaching and learning and significantly played a very significant responsibility with the use of their knowledge, skills and values in dealing with the learners in school. To ensure the continuation of effective services to the clientele, there should be a design activity to relieve stress through monitoring and evaluation on the working conditions among the workforce including the faculty members and support staff of the university.

Keywords: Occupational Stress, Teaching Effectiveness, Teachers