The Influence of Teachers’ Interpersonal Skills to Their Cognitive Competencies as Principal’s Guide for Teacher Selection
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The objectives of this study were: 1) To determine the level of teacher cognitive competencies in terms of Classroom management, and Commitment and responsibility; 2) To determine the level of interpersonal skills in terms of: Communication Care, Respect, and Assertiveness; 3) To investigate the significant influence of teacher interpersonal skills toward teacher cognitive competencies. The study utilized the descriptive method. The research instrument was Oppinionaire with one section based on the two dimensions of Teacher Cognitive Competencies (Abd et al, 2012). The first sub dimension, Classroom Management, consisted of ten Likert-style questions. The second sub dimension of Teacher Cognitive Competencies, Commitment and Responsibility, also consisted of ten Likert-style questions. The second section, Interpersonal Skills, was divided into four dimensions (Brown, 2004) with each dimension consisting of five Likert-style questions. The researcher developed the opinionnaire by using several different definitions of terms that covered all of the dimensions in this study. The statistics used for the treatment of the data were mean, standard deviation(s.d.), standard error mean (s.e.mean), coefficient of variation(C.V.),rank and Multiple regression Analysis: Method enter and method stepwise. The results showed that the highest level of Teacher Cognitive Competencies is in the Commitment and Responsibility dimension and the lowest is Classroom Management. Respect was the highest level of Teacher Interpersonal Skills among the Teachers. Among the dimensions of Teacher Interpersonal Skills, Respect had the highest influence on Teacher Cognitive Competencies. Since the dimensions of Teacher Interpersonal Skills significantly influence Teacher Cognitive Competencies, Principals and other administrators should establish and maintain approaches on how to increase the level of Teacher Cognitive Competencies within the school through teacher selection and developing teacher tools.
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