Effect of Distance Learning Challenges during Covid19 Pandemic to Teachers' Self - Care

ABSTRACT

Positive feelings encourage higher participation in teaching. This study examined the respondents' emotional self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher explored the effect of distancelearning challenges during COVID-19 pandemic to the emotional self-care of the teachers. Descriptive correlational research design was used in the study with a questionnaire as the main tool in gathering the needed data among one-hundred seventy one (171) respondents identified using complete enumeration among elementary school teachers in the Division of Quezon City, Philippines. The data gathered were treated and analyzed using mean, weighted mean, chi - square and Pearson r. The mean age of the respondents is 40.43, female dominated at 73 percent. Most of respondents were teaching in the primary level that teaches general content courses. About 20 percent of the respondents had been in the field for about 11 - 15 years. Civil status and challenges, civil status and grade level taught to emotional self - care, grade level taught to teaching performance, challenges to self - care, challenges to teaching performance, and self-care to teaching performance revealed a significant relationship. Findings of the study is deemed contributory to possible adjustments to faculty development plan to adapt to changing roles from physical to virtual set - up. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Multidisciplinary Applied Business & Education Research is the property of Future Science and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)