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Urdaneta City University

upgrading and enhancement, a well-designed In-Service Training Program should be formulated
and implemented in the division and regional level. Instructional management practices of
teachers in the Mother Tongue should be considered as one criterion in the Performance Rating
of Teachers. Further studies on the improvement of instructional management practices of
teachers in the Mother Tongue should be conducted by future researchers on a wider scope.

INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF TOURISM INSTRUCTORS
CARLOS A. MARCELO

This study determined the level of instructional management practices of tourism
instructors in the different colleges and universities of Urdaneta City A.Y. 2014-2015.
Specifically, it sought to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of ages,
sex, civil status, highest educational attainment, number of years of teaching experience and
relevant trainings attended. Likewise, it looked into the extent of competence on instructional
management practices of tourism instructors along self-management, communication,
competence, the significant different between the extent of competence on the instructional
management practices tourism instructors across the profile variables, the relationship between
the extent of competence on the instructional management practices of tourism instructors
and their profile variables and the problems encountered by the tourism instructors on their
instructional management practices. The descriptive methods of research was employed and the
questionnaire checklist was used in gathering the data. To address the problems of this study,
the statistical measures were used for data analysis and interpretations. There are the frequency
counts (f) and percentage (%), the average weighted means (AWM) the analysis of variance
(ANOVA) and the Pearson product moment of coefficient correlation (r) were used.
The findings indicate that 1) majority of the respondents instructors belong to age
bracket 21-30 that is 29 or 54.7 percent, female that is 33 or 62.3 percent, single or 69.8
percent, baccalaureate degree holder 24 or 45.3 percent have 5 years and below experience in
teaching 33 or 66 percent and attended trainings in the national level 29 or 54.7 percent 2) the
tourism instructors are highly competent on the instructional management practices obtaining
an overall weighted mean of 4.48. 3) there are no significant differences between the level of
competence on the instructional management practices across the profile variables except in
relevant training and the problems encountered by the tourism instructors in their instructional
management practices obtained an overall weighted means of 2.79 an indicative of moderately
serious.
In the light of the findings, the following conclusions were drawn 1) the tourism
instructors of the different colleges and universities of Urdaneta City are relatively young, female
dominated, single, baccalaureate degree holder and young in the service 2) the tourism instructors
manifest a highly competent level of their instructional management practices. 3) The level of
competence of the tourism instructors in their instructional management practices is comparable

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