Teachers' Communication Skills and Students Academic Success in Cluster 6 Schools

Abstract

The study aimed to determine teachers’ communication skills and their roles in the development of students’ academic success among Junior High School Students in Cluster 6 Schools in Davao City Division. The study used a non-experimental descriptive-correlational research design, where it utilized an adapted survey instrument to gather responses from the randomly selected teacher-respondents. Data gathered were treated using Mean scores with descriptive interpretation, Pearson r, and Simple Linear Regression Analysis. Findings revealed that the extent of teachers’ communication skills denotes very extensive teachers’ communication skills in terms of verbal, non-verbal, listening, and visual and written skills in Cluster 6 Schools while  extent of students’ academic success in terms of class participation, critical thinking, and self-learning motivation was extensive among students in Cluster 6 Schools. There was a significant correlation between the extent of teachers’ communication skills and students’ academic success. All indicators of teachers’ communication skills, namely, verbal, non-verbal, written, listening, and visual, indicate statistical significance to students’ academic success. Schools Heads may continuously improve the practices in implementation strategies related to effective delivery of governance and operations to improve learning effectiveness among elementary schools through collaboration with teachers and parents.