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Bitter and sweet: unraveling the journey of multigrade teachers handling multigrade classes.

The 21st Century brings a bigger picture of education, the universal primary education. The universal viewpoint for education brings teachers to perform roles in various ways, Kieran, et.al (2019). But, these teachers are assigned to political boundaries with the rival schools, transportation worries, with inadequate background and experiences of teaching multi-grade classes and having schools prone to flooding and landslides. Challenges of teachers in these situations may affect the instructional performance and even their own motivation..

Therefore, the scenarios being presented have led the researcher to examine the current situations and challenges of teachers in the multigrade schools who are assigned over the political-geographical boundaries, with armed conflicts, natural calamities like flooding, and the rivalry between or among schools, curricular congestion, and distance of the school..

Theoretical Framework. This study is anchored on the theory of Bandura’s Self Efficacy Theory or Social-Cognitive Theory. Self-efficacy directly relates to teacher efficacy. Teacher efficacy is “the teacher’s assessment of his or her capability to organize and execute teaching and learning processes” ( Zakeri , Rahmany , & Labone , 2016)..

Objectives of the Study. To determine the life experiences and remarkable challenges of multigrade teachers that they traversed, played, crossed and endured?.

Scope and Limitation of the Study. The study will be conducted in 6 elementary schools of Tagbina II District, Division of Surigao del Sur, Philippines ..

Significance of the Study. The study is of great importance since the findings will add to the number of studies already conducted in the past about multigrade teaching..

Okamoto, Y. (2020) revealed in his study the opportunities and challenges encountered by the Kagay -anon, Philippine teachers’ utilizing direct and indirect teaching methods cultivated in Japan. Tiernan , et.al, (2020) stated also that multigrade classes can change as far as the multifaceted nature of the instructional methodologies utilized . For instance, students of various ages might be intentionally gathered for one subject to lessen heterogeneity of capacity and make it less demanding to educate the entire class..

Research Design. - multi-case study analysis. This approach to the study focuses primarily on qualitative processes such as in-depth interview (IDI), focus group discussion (FGD) and observation to extract qualitative data adapted by (Creswell, J., & Plano Clark, V., 2011)..

Research Locale. The study is conducted in the 6 elementary schools of Tagbina II District, which is located in the Municipality of Tagbina, Province of Surigao del Sur. The different schools can be reached by riding a motorcycle from Poblacion, Tagbina, Surigao del Sur for one to two hours..

Multigrade teachers. Total. These teachers are handling two or more classes in a school..

Research Instrument. This study will utilize a researcher-made interview guide as the main instrument in gathering the data. It will be prepared after the comprehensive information is acquired through the intensive and extensive reading and research of appropriate literature and studies which are relevant to this present investigation..

Data Gathering Procedure. 1. * ask permission from the office of Schools Division Superintendent.

This research will utilize purposive sampling. The identified participants through the sampling technique are those who have experience and knowledge about the subject matter ( Teddie , C., & Yu, F., 2007). This sampling technique will be used to determine the data to gathered and analyzed..

McMillan and Schumacher (2006:142) argues that ethics generally deal with beliefs about what is right or wrong, proper or improper, good or bad. They further argue that the primary investigator of the study is responsible for the ethical standards to which the study adheres. In this study, I will give participants assurances of confidentiality and anonymity and informed them about the intended use of the data. I will explain to the participants that the information they provided will be treated with confidentiality and that neither the names of the participants nor their schools will be mentioned in the study..

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