• Leonora F. de Jesus

  Author

• Renato L. Godoy

  Author

Bulacan State University- College of Education is one of the highly qualified higher
institutions offering BSED- Filipino in Bulacan. It aims to become more competitive in the
transmission of knowledge relevant to the changing environment in the field of education. This
study aimed to accentuate the performance of practice teachers; personal and professional
readiness of the student teachers and identify feedback of the cooperating teachers that could
make the program responsive to the modern learners of today. The respondents were the
cooperating teachers of the different public high schools in Bulacan and neighboring provinces
where most of the student teachers of BSEd Filipino were deployed. Phenomenological inquiry
design with the use of Sequential Explanatory was adopted. Thematic analysis was also utilized.
Kentucky Teacher Internship Program Intern Performance Record (COST 2009 ) and the student
teaching supervisor observation form were used as instrument of this study. The forms were
combined, evaluated and validated by practice teaching supervisors and an Assessment
Professor. Fifty pre-service teachers enrolled in a 6-unit Practice Teaching subject in the second
semester of AY 2017-2018 were evaluated by their cooperating teachers. The findings revealed
that BSED Filipino practice teachers performed very satisfactory as shown by its computed
mean. Certainly, they possess good teacher characteristics as perceived by their cooperating
teachers.

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