This study sought to find the life-long teaching competencies of teachers of the new millennium as perceived by cooperating teachers of the Department of Secondary Education, College of Education, Central Luzon State University.
A total of 140 cooperating teachers from the cooperating schools of CLSU in the provinces of Pangasinan, Bulacan, and Nueva Ecija served as respondents of the study.
Cooperating teachers were mostly young, and was married. Results revealed that out of the 140 cooperating teachers, 55 percent were with MA units, 20 percent are MS degree holders, 15.7 percent are BS degree holders, 5.7 percent with Ph.D. units, and only 3.6 percent are Ph.D. degree holders. In terms of field of specialization: 24.3 percent are in Language and Literature; 17.9 percent are THE (Agriculture); 11.4 percent Science; 10.7 percent Mathematics; 8.6 percent Physical Education, Health and Music (PEHM), 5.7 percent Education, 2.9 percent Social Science and 0.07 percent in Food and Nutrition.
Majority of the cooperating teachers were teaching only their major field of specialization, while close to one-fourth were teaching both their major and minor fields of specialization. Their teaching experience was described as either short, 16 years and below, or long, 16 years and above.
Findings also showed that out of the 140 cooperating teachers, 50.7 percent have attended in-service training during the period under review, while 49.3 percent have attended from 1 to 5 times in the last two years. However, 47.87 percent have attended only once.
Majority of the cooperating teachers have a very satisfactory teaching performance, while a few got outstanding, and only very few obtained a satisfactory rating.
The findings also showed highly significant differences on the perception of life-long teaching competencies across schools except on skills and abilities development. On the other hand there was no significant difference between cooperating teachers’ self-assessment and perceived life-long teaching competencies across schools.
